Was It Something I Said [Paperback]

When Justine and Barry meet during a plane crash just before the Christmas holidays, the relationship that follows is wild, turbulent, and maybe, just maybe, a keeper.
Justine is a pretty, smart, ambitious lawyer who's tired of being set up on lousy dates. Her eighteen-hour work days get in the way of finding Mr. Right, but she'd rather be home with her dog, drinking salad dressing for dinner and watchingThe Sound of Musicon the VCR anyway. Barry is a good-looking food product manager living on the Upper West side with a rich roommate who is juggling three girlfriends at once but never has the rent. Barry seeks his soulmate, but the fact that he hasn't had a date in a year makes things a little tougher.
A comic urban romance about the possibilities and impossibilities of love.Was it Something I Said?is a classic will they or won't they? for the nineties that will keep readers guessing until the very end.Valerie Blocklives and works in New York City. This is her first novel.Chapter One
He couldn't get himself arrested
At 7:30 A.M., Barry Cantor flew up the Saw Mill River Parkway blastingAbbey Road.It was five days before Christmas. He hadn't had a second date in eight months, and he hadn't had sex in over a year. It was astounding.
Barry worked, read theTimes,watched TV; he played first base for the Condiments and Retail Sauces team. At 32, he'd won a Brammy for Best Consumer Promotion. At 33 he'd renovated the twisty seven-room apartment he'd grown up in. Three months ago, he'd hired a chef to cook for him twice a week. If he behaved himself, he'd be Group Product Supervisor in a year. In all probability, he would never learn Italian; when he was honest with himself, he admitted that he didn't really speak French.
He took the second Tarrytown exit. All of Barry's old friends were married, and most of them were fathers; he saw them on the weekends, among their families, carrying things. Possibly there lóŽ