KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU - BRING ON THE LOVE! Recently single mother Kate is struggling. Clinging on to a career and bringing up her 2 year old daughter leads to nights alone drowning her sorrows in the cheapest white wine she can find. Forced to employ Joel, a male escort, to accompany her to a professionals' dinner, Kate somehow ends up in the middle of a relationship contest, competing for a £100,000 prize alongside someone she barely knows. With her boss, the Lady Dragon Miranda, desperate for Kate to flounder, her tarot card reading child-minder trying to match-make and her ex-husband making her life a misery, can Kate keep her life on an even keel? And more importantly can she put her trust in a serial dater who used to be an underwear model?
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Mandy Baggot is a chicklit/contemporary romantic fiction author based near Salisbury, Wiltshire. Her first novel Excess All Areas was published in 2008 and tells the story of size 20 heroine Freya and Hollywood film star Nicholas Kaden.
Breaking the Ice was published in 2010 and this novel is set around an ice skating show. Box office assistant Samantha struggles to deal with panic attacks in her pursuit of gorgeous yet flawed professional skater Jimmy Lloyd.
2011 saw the publication of Knowing Me Knowing You. Lawyer Kate and male escort Joel are forced to take part in a relationship contest but will their roleplay turn into reality?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By reabeauty
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Knowing Me Knowing you is the second book I have read by Mandy Baggot. The previous book Breaking the Ice was an enjoyable read but in my opinion after reading Knowing Me Knowing you this book is on a totally different level.
Our leading lady in this book is Kate who is an easy character to warm. After just a couple of chapters we realise how hard Kate is finding juggling her work with looking after her daughter and getting over her ex-husband so from the start of this book you cannot help but sympathise with her character. Baggot gives us enough information to set the scene for this characters background with out over doing it and making it a chore to read. Kate story starts to unwind as we read on through the book until it is time to see if she can turn her life around and start enjoying and living life again.
Having just read what I have written so far about my opinion for this book it sounds as though this is a really deep and meaningful book which is true but it doesn't feel like that when you are reading this book as there is a large amount of humour in this book to which manages to keep the book on a light hearted track. I mean who has ever known an author start a book with the first line "bird poo and porridge were basically one and the same thing"!.
How can I review this book without mentioning the best part and that is Joel.When we are first introduced to Joel via the escort agency I was sure he was going to be a sleaze ball but that couldn't be further from the truth. I think Joel is every woman's ideal man and his character had to be my favourite!
It was a pleasure to read this book and see how Mandy Baggot is growing as an author, there is clearly a different style of writing in this book compared to Breaking the Ice, and she manages to keep you interested all the way through the book. The only downside to this book is the cover, this is defiantly one of these books where the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover " comes to mind.
Our leading lady in this book is Kate who is an easy character to warm. After just a couple of chapters we realise how hard Kate is finding juggling her work with looking after her daughter and getting over her ex-husband so from the start of this book you cannot help but sympathise with her character. Baggot gives us enough information to set the scene for this characters background with out over doing it and making it a chore to read. Kate story starts to unwind as we read on through the book until it is time to see if she can turn her life around and start enjoying and living life again.
Having just read what I have written so far about my opinion for this book it sounds as though this is a really deep and meaningful book which is true but it doesn't feel like that when you are reading this book as there is a large amount of humour in this book to which manages to keep the book on a light hearted track. I mean who has ever known an author start a book with the first line "bird poo and porridge were basically one and the same thing"!.
How can I review this book without mentioning the best part and that is Joel.When we are first introduced to Joel via the escort agency I was sure he was going to be a sleaze ball but that couldn't be further from the truth. I think Joel is every woman's ideal man and his character had to be my favourite!
It was a pleasure to read this book and see how Mandy Baggot is growing as an author, there is clearly a different style of writing in this book compared to Breaking the Ice, and she manages to keep you interested all the way through the book. The only downside to this book is the cover, this is defiantly one of these books where the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover " comes to mind.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This novel started off well. Good pace and a fun plot. The reader was soon swept up into the angst of Kate whose husband one day ups and leaves. Suddenly single, Kate has to raise a small child and juggle money worries with a return to work. The reader can easily identify with the main character's emotions - which are running high. I won't spoil things by mentioning what happens next, other than that there is a shift in Kate's luck and along comes Joel - who is naturally the gorgeous hero and quite rightly so. I loved this book all the way up to realising that Kate was quite probably a borderline alcoholic and Joel went on to do something extremely unheroic...he publicly humiliated another woman. Okay, the woman was most unpleasant, but by this point the whole storyline had descended into a rather chavtastic state of affairs which, for me, spoilt the overall read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Melanie King
Format:Kindle Edition
This is the first book I've read by Mandy Baggot and I have to say, I'll be reading more by this author.
Her portrayal of Kate - a single mother raising a young daughter after her husband left her - tugs at your heartstrings. She struggles from day to day to get through both financially and emotionally.
Things get dicey for Kate when she hires an escort (Joel) to take her to a company function. She doesn't want another relationship at this time but gradually as she begins to know him, she lets her guard down.
Mandy has you wanting Kate and Joel to get together and uses the cast of supporting characters to that end quite skillfully. Hermoine - Kate's childminder, Lynn - Kate's secretary.
I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.
Her portrayal of Kate - a single mother raising a young daughter after her husband left her - tugs at your heartstrings. She struggles from day to day to get through both financially and emotionally.
Things get dicey for Kate when she hires an escort (Joel) to take her to a company function. She doesn't want another relationship at this time but gradually as she begins to know him, she lets her guard down.
Mandy has you wanting Kate and Joel to get together and uses the cast of supporting characters to that end quite skillfully. Hermoine - Kate's childminder, Lynn - Kate's secretary.
I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.
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Bloody Brilliant!! from starting this book i was hooked and laughing. The whole contest is so funny it could be true and the characters are totally believable. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Book-Shelf
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A great fun read
Like many reviewers on this site this is the first book I have read by Mandy Baggot, and judging by how enjoyable it was to read I shall be looking out more of her books in the... Read more
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A very interesting read, you really do care about the characters and what happens to them. I enjoyed this book
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Great read
I really loved this book. the characters were fun and normal. It was chaotic, sincerer and romantic. Oh to meet a man like Joel!
Would highly recommend this book.
Would highly recommend this book.
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This was a great story lots of laughter and heart ache, again I found it hard to put it aside while getting on with work and boring chores. Read more
Published 4 months ago by wiltshire
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Brilliant read......
Could not put this down. Totally enjoyed this, you can relate to everything written laugh out loud parts. Totally recommend.
Published 4 months ago by me
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good hols read
Not read this author before but did enjoy the read of this book. Has to be said not a masterpiece but makes for good holiday reading
Published 5 months ago by Toni Green
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Absolutely loved it!!!
Once I picked this up, I couldn't put it down. Whilst the plot was entirely predictable, there were some laugh out loud moments & it kept me entertained throughout.
Published 5 months ago by S. Gayle
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Kate is a single mum, trying to keep things together since the divorce, but feeling very inadequate. Read more
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I enjoyed this story. Well written with an interesting plot. Was amusing in places and made me think in others. Read more
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