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|title=Hilary and David

|author=Laura Solomon

|genre=General Fiction

|rating=3.5

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-9881993298

|pages=184

|publisher=Proverse Hong Kong

|date=November 2011

|summary=An odd online friendship brings together two lost souls from different sides of the world.

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Hilary, a single mother of two troublesome boys meets David, an elderly writer with problems of his own, through Facebook. It’s an odd beginning – they have a mutual friend, so one adds the other, and then they start chatting quite spontaneously – but sets the scene well for their atypical relationship. Hilary’s in New Zealand, David’s in London. They are many decades apart in age but are clearly both quite lonely and looking for someone to talk to. So, with the vague anonymity of social networking on their side, they reach out to one another.

[[Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer]] does it better, I think: another book of online messages, this time emails, it is faster paced and funnier than this one.

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