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Amanda's Wedding flies riotously through the pre-nuptial rituals of stag and hen nights and disastrous dinner parties to a staggering, if inevitable, wedding day from hell. Colgan's merciless observations of the London social scene are as witty and sharp as her take on the (extra)ordinary lives of middle-class brunettes from Woking. "Four Weddings and a Funeral" meets "Boys Behaving Badly"--and what is flat-mate Linda's, dark (and milk), cacao-based secret? --Carey Green
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A deliciously warm and hilarious romp of a novel set in twenty-something heartland.
Amanda’s old schoolfriends can’t believe it when the social-climbing queen of preen, Satan’s very own PR girl, pulls off the ultimate publicity stunt in getting herself engaged to a Scottish laird. Who cares that Fraser McConnald has worn the same pair of Converse trainers for the last three years and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one calor gas heater – she’ll be titled!
Something Must Be Done. Gentle, decent Fraser is clearly ignorant of her wiles, and Mel and Fran, still smarting from the memory of all the mean things Amanda put them through in their days at Portmount Comprehensive, set out to sabotage this mismatch of the century. So between fighting off the attentions of a love-crazed accountant, keeping Fran’s deadly manoeuvres with the opposite sex under control and trying to win her own war of love with the elusive but gorgeous Alex, Mel finds herself attending a wild Scottish stag night, a hen night from hell, and preparing for a wedding that’s everything you’d wish on your worst enemy.
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Hilarious, romping good fun romance!,
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This review is from: Amanda's Wedding (Paperback)
When Mel and Fran's old school chum and arch enemy - the super snob Amanda, (Satan's very own PR girl), pulls off the ultimate publicity stunt in getting herself engaged to a Scottish laird - they descend into a drunken binge (and a night with the 6 foot 7 accountant who is the most boring accountant in the world) - which constitutes the worst drop into despair in the world. It seems Amanda does not mind that.Fraser McConnald wears the same pair of Converse trainers for years on end, and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one Calor Gas heater - Amanda wants to be titled - and what Amanda wants, Amanda gets - even if it means fake smiles, lots of bared white teeth and tight leather trousers.Fraser, rather sweet and gentle, is clearly ignorant of her wiles (aren't all males though) so it is up to our heroine, Mel and her acerbic friend Fran, still smarting from the memory of Amanda's perfidy at school, to save him from mismatch of the century. To bring this all off and get her final revenge on her arch enemy Mel has to fight off an even greater and more pressing nemesis - the ardent attentions of the most boring accountant in the world, at the same time she has to keepg Fran's deadly manoeuvres with the opposite sex under control and try to win back the love of her life, the gorgeous, but fiendishly uncommitted Alex. Walking with Mel through the wedding preparations which include hen night from hell are just wonderful, light fun. This is a hellluva funny debut novel - well worth a read and definitely an author to watch out for. At times I thought it would tip over into self-concious joke telling - ah la most stand up comedians who end up writing books (Ellen de Generes, Paul Reisner et al) but this was great. Imaginative, funny and the characters seemed real no matter how eccentric things got. It reminded me very much of Jilly Cooper's early short romances (Octavia, Imogen) which I also loved. If you enjoy Jilly Cooper or Janet Evanovich I'm sure you'll love this.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Don't write this book off......,
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This review is from: Amanda's Wedding (Paperback)
...as just a little bit of light reading, on the bus, blah blah blah. It is of course, but if you read between the one-liners there are truths about relationships between friends, and some people you've met a thousand times. The truth is sarcasm / banal comments and ... gags are how most of us speak anyway. I don't think I've actually had a proper conversation since I was 5 - and I sure do a lot of talking. Please note, even light reading needs to be well written and this is. Smashing book - made me giggle out loud. Site address would be nice. Jenny Colgan has undoubtedly chosen a very "comedy" address that is completely unguessable.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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HA HA! Brilliant.,
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I read this book about a year ago, my first Jenny Colgan book and now I have read all but two of her books.
It was too her first published book, so I think if someone was choose to start reading one of her books, this would be the one to start with. It is by far, in my opinion, the funniest of all her books with many unexpected twists and turns. The story is basic, but genius for someone who hasn't read in a while. I've got back into reading thanks to Jenny Colgan!
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