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Going La La is a contemporary romance that benefits from its Los Angeles locale, setting it apart from other recently published London-based "chick-lit" and "city-lit" titles. Frankie is 29, happy in her job and thinks she might be about to get married. However, within the space of a week she loses both her job and her potential fiancé and is on a plane, running away to her best friend Rita, who is trying to make it as an actress in LA. Alexandra Potter revels in seeing LA and the Californian lifestyle through Frankie's naïve eyes, detailing the excesses and the absurdities of this image-conscious, sun-blessed, car-driven culture. Through Rita's somewhat nefarious contacts, she and Frankie experience an LA of parties and glamour that many a British visitor to LA could only dream of. However, Potter hams these up to such an extent that they appear as film scenes in their own right, with farcical swimming pool set pieces, obligatory scantily clad women and a whiff of Class A drugs.
Potter has written a classic romance that manages to twist and turn to leave the reader guessing at Frankie's happiness until the very end and has created in her hero and heroine two believable and yet off-kilter characters. Reilly, the love interest, appears as both the uncouth, cowboy-hat-wearing American of stereotype and yet also as the charming gentleman who has experienced pain and needs some love. Frankie, though she has a worrying tendency to relate all her LA experiences to the last two years of her life, (house parties are only comparable to those she went to with her ex-boyfriend, the smarmy Hugh, which feels unrealistic for a 29-year-old, but is perhaps symptomatic of her misguided devotion to her ex), is a sympathetic character and yet beautiful and flighty enough to be the star of her own story.
Going La La offers a dream away from everyday life, where men are Cary-Grant-cum-Marlboro man lookalikes and women are allowed to be swept off their kitten-heeled feet (while also becoming leather-trouser-wearing independent sex-bombs). Frankie rejects drab and oh-so-British-London and her equally drab and oh-so-British boyfriend, embracing sunny Los Angeles and Reilly with his "long, lazy smile"--something we'd all like to do, at least for one day, as we read this and smile on a cold, rainy Sunday morning. --Olivia Dickinson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'Nobody does it quite like Alexandra Potter'
(Daily Mirror )'The perfect reading romcom' (Daily Mail on ME AND MR DARCY )
'Fantastically funny' (Elle on ME AND MR DARCY )
Sharply written, pacey and funny...pure self-indulgence'
(The Times on BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR )'Feel-good fiction full of unexpected twists and turns' (OK! )
'A touching, funny love-story' (Company )
'Always perceptive, often funny, never dull' (Heat )
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just finished this book and have to disagree with some of the other reviewers. This is the first book I have read by this author and have just bought the others. This is a nice, romantic book with good characterisation but a little predicable. Worth a read if you want to cheer yourself up, which I did at the time I started it! More please.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Don't judge a book by it's cover. On in this case, do. I was enticed by the image the cover portrayed - a trashy, simple read for the summer holiday. What I found inside wasn't even worthy of this description. A predictable read...
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'veread a number of 'chick-lit' titles and this is far and away the worst. The story is so predictable it is hardly worth the effort of turning the pages to see that,yes you had guessed the plot. The characters are so two-dimensional you would expect to see them in panto not a book... Their are much better books of a similar nature out there.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Predictable story!
After reading 'What's New Pussycat' I was really looking forward to reading this book. Oh how I was dissappointed. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Karen Gooderham
Another classic Alexandra Potter Book
An older but classic Alexandra Potter, she is an entertaining author, the book is easy reading, made me laugh, down to earth and superb!
Published 19 months ago by Zola
Disappointed!
I bought this book having read and enjoyed "Be Careful What You Wish For" by the same author. But I was extremely disappointed with this dull, predictable story. Read more
Published on 3 Jun 2007 by Essex Shopaholic
Fave book of all time!!!
This has got to be my fave book of all time! Love the story, love the setting and love love love Reilly! want to met and marry him lol. Read more
Published on 14 May 2007 by Ms. S. L. Denning
Just didn't want it to end!
Alexandra potter, does it again. This is the author that first got me into reading chick-lit so obviously I remain somewhat faithful to her. Read more
Published on 6 July 2006 by truffle
loved it
I came across this site a couple of days ago and was interested to read the reviews of Going La La, but I have to disagree with the last reader. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2002
Mills & Boon Rehash
This is one of the worst examples of 'chick-lit' which never really manages to lift itself above the realms of middle-of-the-road Mills & Boon. Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2002
A modern day 'Mills & Boon' tale of true love
Just when we thought we were safe from the 'true romance' type of writing as typified by Mills &Boons books, along comes a new generation with their tried and tested formula of... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2001 by Susana J G
enjoyable and funny
After reading the first book of Ms Potter, I looked forward to reading the second. Having spent some time in Los Angeles and visited places like the ones mentioned and met people... Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2001
Just great
Being an airhostess I've often visited LA and this book really depicted how it really is. The characters were spot-on, I laughed out loud at the waitress in the restaurant, and the... Read more
Published on 25 July 2001
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