- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (7 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007180330
- ISBN-13: 978-0007180332
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 299,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Freya North:
‘Freya North makes serious observations about the fear of the commitment in this funny debut novel' Womans Journal
'Read of the month…settle down and indulge' Cosmopolitan
'Passion, guilt, envy love and sex, topped with lashings of laughs. Freya North has done it again, only better' Express
'Freya North is on a roll…stamped with foxy, feelgood flair' She Magazine
Product Description
An intelligent, fun and feelgood novel about best friends, about settling down and about throwing it all away…
When you fall in love do you follow your heart or use your head?
Thea Luckmore believes in love – the magic spark of true, old-fashioned, romantic love. She's determined only ever to fall head over heels, or rather, heart over head.
Alice Heggarty, her best friend, is always falling in lust – with dashing rogues who invariably break her heart. As yet another disastrous relationship ends, Alice makes a decision. It's time to marry and she knows just the man.
For Thea, a chance encounter on Primrose Hill ignites that elusive spark she's preoccupied with… Saul Mundy promises to be the perfect fit and Thea finds herself falling in love and loving it.
But though newly wed Alice encourages Thea to settle down and conform, she finds that she's not as keen as she thought on playing by the rules. Alice starts to break them left, right and centre… At the same time, Thea's world, in which love reigns supreme, is shaken to core.
When it comes to love, should you listen to your head, your heart, or your best friend?
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book for 'light relief' after a previous couple of heavy novels I'd made my way through. It didn't quite reach my unfair expectations - the shocking secret that Thea discovered about Saul is not what I expected it to be. But I found most of the others outcomes quite predictable.
Some of it was a bit too 'nice' for my liking ... maybe I'm just jealous that there are people out there that can afford to buy in London at all, let alone within their 'chosen postcodes', and furnish their apartments with items that don't come from Ikea!
Like one other reader, I found the graphic sex moments a little too descriptive for my liking.
It was thought provoking and I felt it dealt with some issues that some typical chick-lit fails to mention. So well done Ms North!
Some of it was a bit too 'nice' for my liking ... maybe I'm just jealous that there are people out there that can afford to buy in London at all, let alone within their 'chosen postcodes', and furnish their apartments with items that don't come from Ikea!
Like one other reader, I found the graphic sex moments a little too descriptive for my liking.
It was thought provoking and I felt it dealt with some issues that some typical chick-lit fails to mention. So well done Ms North!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have almost read all of Freya North books and so far this is simply the best so far, it's so much different compared to her last books.
You could almost relate to either one of the characters with the likes of Alice, Thea, Saul,and Mark. It's totally orginal and very out of the ordinary. But i love it and would read it again.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having read all Freya North's other books, I've never really decided if I particularly like her style of writing but I have to say this is her best one yet. Only on the rare occasion in this book does she revert to dialogue between the reader and the characters which has so annoyed me in the past. I did feel that some of the sex scenes could have done with a little less information but perhaps I'm just a prude!
Overall, a very good read with a more unusual storyline to the other chicklits around.
Overall, a very good read with a more unusual storyline to the other chicklits around.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Freya North, Love rules
Really loved this book, and i am slowly going through all of freya north's books, she has great way of writing and getting you to not put the book down wanting to find out what... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Ms. Diane Sutherland
Worth reading but won't change your life!
I've read quite a few Freya North's books and have rushed through them, loving the characters and wanting to get to know them more, but there was something about this book which I... Read more
Published 22 months ago by JE8
Mrs. North Makes Me Question My Ethics
I've always had a difficulty with chicklits. Characters are either blaringly stupid and screw up their own lives or I feel I am reading fantasy as opposed to fiction. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2009 by Ms. Rmd Carney
Suprisingly good read
I say surprisingly because I think the cover does this book no justice - it looks like just another light hearted piece of chewing gum for the brain, when in reality it is a pretty... Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2008 by A. J. Brew
Thought provoking stuff
The more recent Freya North novels have stepped away from her 'arty farty' books of the 1990s and as a result, provide the reader with much better material. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2008 by SilentSinger
Quite possibly the best book Ive ever read
This book had me glued from the moment I read the first page.
I hadnt read any of Freya Norths other books so I had no expectations and I have to say that this is the... Read more
I hadnt read any of Freya Norths other books so I had no expectations and I have to say that this is the... Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2007 by Ms. K. G. CRANE
Not what I expected
I am a BIG fan of freya north. If you've read sally, chloe, pip, fen or cat don't expect this to be in a similar vein. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2007 by S. Hirani
Heartbreaking
I loved this book. The last half is utterly compelling. No happy ending and it left me with heart ache.
Published on 9 Feb 2007 by Rachet
Brilliant
One of the best books I've read in the past five years, Love Rules tells the tale of best friends Alice and Thea and the trials and tribulations of love - identifying it, finding... Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2007 by S. J. Virtue
Love Rules
I was astonished to read anything other than positive about this book as I thoroughly enjoyed every page. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2006 by Louise
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