A brilliant romantic comedy about a year in the lives of three couples from number one bestselling author Mike Gayle.

Meet Melissa and Paul: Five years after they split up he''s still looking for love in all the wrong places while she wants the one thing she can''t have: Paul.

Meet Chris and Vicky: They''re so in tune they even brush their teeth in time with each other. So what is Chris doing risking it all for a meaningless affair?

Meet Cooper and Laura: He wants to settle down, she wants to take a grown-up gap year but can their relationship really survive a year apart?

Set across a year of leaving dos, birthday parties and anniversary celebrations, Life and Soul of the Party is a warm, funny and moving tale celebrating love, life and those special moments we''ve all spent in the kitchen at parties.