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Belinda is intelligent, lives with her boyfriend and has just begun her dream job as a teacher of creative writing at the exclusive private school, Beasdale. Tony, although gorgeous, has no social skills, has a tendency towards schizophrenic behaviour and has only just scraped a place on the school's Summer Theatre Course. It's an unlikely basis for a stomach-churning love affair, but as Belinda is at pains to point out, when someone has The Glow, you follow them to the ends of the earth. Her determination to make Tony hers knows no bounds and she devises many a hairbrained scheme to make things go her way, including toying with the affections of an even younger pupil. It is unbecoming behaviour for a school teacher but, as it turns out, she's not the only one half crazed with love. Blackmail, murder, anorexic philosophers and closet homosexual lust soon take centre stage, despite the common consensus that the play must go on. As you might have guessed, this is not the most serious of literary endeavours. But it is considerably better than most giggly girly chatterings on the subject of love and other distractions. Belinda's sharp and sassy voice is scathingly entertaining, and if the book occasionally degenerates into farce, it is all the more fun for doing so. --Claire Allfree
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A mad-cap, light-hearted story about love and lust at a drama summer-school.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most convincing portrait of obsessive love ever!,
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This review is from: Gripless (Paperback)
Wow - what a fantastic novel. It makes most love stories pale into insignificance in comparison. Belinda is a teacher who falls in love with the mad, dangerous Tony - and her life begins to disintegrate. Achingly funny, but also moving, sad, deep. I loved every minute of this fantastic novel - more please!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The orange cover and heart-shaped bike-chain will fool you,
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This review is from: Gripless (Paperback)
Quite why Gripless has such a chick-fic, fluffy-minded cover is beyond me, since it is one of the most intelligent and thoughtful books I have ever read. It tackles love and morality: if you were in love with someone, what lengths would you be willing to go to? The book may be hilarious and often farcical, but at its core lies a warning: Belinda (the main character) tries to have everything and realises that it is not what she wants. The book is also shrewdly observant of its readership and Sophie Hannah always knows what you are thinking - she divides her readers up into categories at the beginning, then tells them which categories she doesn't want reading the book. Points where the plot takes a turn, such as Belinda choosing to block out thoughts of Tony (the love of her life) by getting involved with a 17-year-old boy, are accompanied by comments from Belinda such as, "Have I upset you, Category A, by cheating on my one true love?" This book is brilliantly funny from start to finish, but, unlike most love-centred womens' fiction (Amy Jenkins, Does my Bum Look Big In This?, any Mills & Boon) it has a purpose, a point, themes and issues, morals and subtext - all the stuff that most readers of funny books about relationships are looking to avoid. Fortunately, Gripless has enough of each to satisfy both categories. Thank god for the bridge between the two.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely brilliant,
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This review is from: Gripless (Paperback)
This is a fabulous first novel. It kept me gripped all the way through. The first chapter was clever and witty. The book was laugh-out-loud funny through out. I deffinately fit into Cat A and could fully appriciate the seniments of the book!!
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