He's aware of the questionability of his behaviour and knows perfectly well he may find this girl only to be told to bugger off. The characters use the term 'stalking', but unlike most stalkers Jason doesn't imagine a relationship with the girl that doesn't exist. Wallace walks a fine line with his plot, but he's good enough to hang a lantern on the fact that Jason's behaviour is vaguely invasive. Jason's 'stupid boy project' involves trying to track this girl down using the very pictures he wants to return to her. The plot of Charlotte Street is remarkably like his non-fiction. At the end of the brief encounter, he finds he has accidentally kept one of her things, a disposable camera. A quick offer of help and Jason is smitten. (No, not that one.) One day on Charlotte Street he sees a woman struggling with packages as she gets into a taxicab. Wallace's protagonist is Jason Priestley. I would definitely recommend this book and any others written by Danny Wallace that you may come across! Read moreĬan I just say how much fun it is to be in Danny Wallace's head again? Even when he's pretending to be someone else, he's delightful. Overall it was a good read with a great group of characters featured throughout the novel. Details like this weren't necessarily important to the storyline but still were mentioned each and every time something about his living situation was brought up.

Although enjoyable to read, I did find some of the humour slightly forced and quite a few of the story's details were repeated a number of times during the book, for example his flat was located next door to a building thought to have been a brothel, but actually wasn't. Eventually it begins to unravel as the main character, Jason Priestly begins to piece together the mystery woman's story through her photographs in order to find her. The book is quite slow to get moving and I did find myself wondering what, if there was any, plot to the book at all. Enter the new woman, a woman he falls in love with just by looking at her and then the quest to find her. This book is not an exception, although I wouldn't put in quite as on par as some of his previous novels (such as Yes Man!) The story follows the classic thirty-something man down on his luck and recently split from a previous girlfriend he's not sure he is over yet. Danny Wallace's books have never failed to amuse me and make me laugh out loud while reading them.

Charlotte Street by Danny Wallace