- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (2 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 074727102X
- ISBN-13: 978-0747271024
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,359,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Girlfriend 44 supplies a sharp, sardonic study of one man's slant on relations between the sexes. Laddish, thirtysomething Harry is still looking for the woman of his dreams, after 43 failed attempts. When his mate Farley apparently commits suicide over a girl called Alice, Harry sets his sights on the bereaved, convinced that she's the woman of his dreams. There's just one small catch--his best mate Gerrard is equally convinced that she's the only one for him and so the contest commences. A battle not so much of wits as of puerile one-upmanship ensues as the pair project their own needs and desires onto the object of their fantasies. Sporting metaphors are served up fast and furious in this rogues' rally:
"So by cutting the levity ... he brought the fight onto his own territory. Even if he failed ... he would still be there, like a tennis player hanging on in a demanding rally, biding his time to regain the centre of the court."With its sharp one-liners, witty observations and vivid characterisations, Mark Barrowcliffe's first novel Girlfriend 44 presents a provocative insight into the male psyche. --Nicola Perry
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'There are shades of Withnail and I, as well as Notting Hill, in this laugh-out-loud look at a couple of gropers on the prowl' Belfast Telegraph 'Sharp and funny' -- Loaded 'Dazzlingly funny and oh so true...' -- Jill Mansell 'Funny, sharp and so realistic you think you know all the characters... We loved GIRLFRIEND 44 so much' -- New Woman 'Hilarious... [Barrowcliffe is] an assured stylist with a lively, wordy wit' -- Independent on Sunday 'I howled with laughter... Lively, witty and upbeat... If you've got any sense of humour at all you'll be hard pushed to get through GIRLFRIEND 44 without laughing out loud' -- Mirror 'A natural chronicler of the love-lorn male' -- The Times 'Smart and funny' -- Cosmopolitan 'A hilarious read' -- Company 'Fresh, funny' -- PS Magazine 'So funny... Zany, alive and always true to itself' Wall Street Journal -- Wall Street Journal 20010902
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
On the plus side: this is laddishly and arrogantly un-pc ...... and (mostly) refreshing for that. The one liners are often wickedly profound: there's a bit about one's own opinions (when en-route to drunken-ness) that knocked me sideways in it's honesty. This book is hugely endowed with witty similies - have a notebook handy to jot them down for use in the pub.
On the minus side: those aforementioned similies are sometimes a tad overdone, and crop up on almost every page. Succint it aint - witness the intro. which spends an age building up the characters around basically a rather mundane breakfast scene. Believabilty is somewhat stretched at many junctures - and, as for the end, well I won't give anything away.....judge for yourself!
This is "pretty damn readable without being totally addictive" fare - more of a handbook in witty put-downs that hangs on a pretty threadbare and inplausible plot than a full-blown, bona fide novel revolving around a good story
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I tried to like this book I really did. But it has been written too quickly, with barely any editing and is far too long. Clearly this was someone trying to say "Look at me!!" far too loudly. There was a surfeit of one liners that made you think that this was written by a journalist who believes himself to be a comedian. Once he has his own style his writer might be better. Very disappointing.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a depressing and unhappy book. How awful if this is what men are really like, I would rather stay single. I felt soiled after reading this. I only stuck with it to the end to ensure that Harry got his comeuppance. Truly terrible
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A scattershot approach to humour that (mostly) succeeds
Harry is looking for the One. He's spent years looking for her and tried out 43 women in his quest to find her. Read more
Published 16 months ago by A. L. Rutter
Bad just too heavy to get through
Far too many metaphors which make this book far far too long, it could easily have been condensed properly, the style also changes here and there and there are far too many one... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Paul M
Thats a lot of girlfriends
For the most part this book is exactly what you might expect from the title and blurb on the back cover. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2006 by aceadrian
Nick Hornby fear not...for the time being
Overall I enjoyed Girlfriend 44 and could identify (albeit ashamedly) with the male characters. I have noted that some reviewers found Alice just too perfect, but it should be... Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2006 by F. Robertson
Can I be Girlfriend 45?
I don't think I have ever read a book that made me laugh out loud before. I loved Harry, Gerard, even the fabulous Alice - and of course the author by association! Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2006 by "elaine_karaiskos"
Save Yourself! Do Not Read.
The only emotion this book stirred was an absolute hatred of every single character! Even the incredibly beautiful Alice was just too perfect to like. Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2004
Clever idea
Interesting title, not a bad book. Bought it at the market in Glebe, found later that it was a reviewer's copy, the sticker was still in it, so somebody made some illegitimate... Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2003 by Gerben Kappert
Kind of clever, but I couldn't warm to it...
I read this book on holiday and I almost gave up several times in the early stages. The first few chapters are very long-winded and I didn't like any of the characters (I'm a... Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2003
Hilarious And Disastorously True
From the moment I read the opening dumping letter to the main character's girlfriend I thought a)this guy's a compelte b******, b)he doesn't even realise how offensive he's being... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2001 by "thecaptain75"
Funny and truthful
I'm afraid to say I enjoyed this book immensely even though the character in it is vain, shallow, sexist, lazy, rude... Read more
Published on 10 May 2001 by Mr S D'Arcy
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