- Paperback: 324 pages
- Publisher: Piatkus Books; paperback / softback edition (24 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749935049
- ISBN-13: 978-0749935047
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 941,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In many ways, Adam is the perfect boyfriend. He never wants to watch the football. He never gets drunk. And he always prefers a quiet night in to going out with his mates. The only problem is, Adam doesn't actually exist. Faith Wishart made him up. In fact, Faith makes almost everything up in order to please her mum. She pretends she works for a top PR company, when really she works in a shop - as a make-up girl for Keats cosmetics. But her mum is itching to meet the mysterious Adam, and when her younger sister, Hope, returns unexpectedly from Australia with her fiance, it's not wedding bells that are ringing for Faith. It's alarm bells. She now has less than two months to solve her boyfriend's non-existence problem in time for the wedding and desperate times call for desperate measures...
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Starts slow, but ends fabulous,
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This review is from: The Make-up Girl (Paperback)
At first this seems like a super "lite" book, reminded me of the "Shopaholic" books. (Which is ironic, because early on in this book Semple clearly pokes fun at the "Shopaholic" books!) Many chapters are only a page or two in length. And our "heroine" is such a bald-faced liar, you find it hard to sympathize at all with her. Not to mention the other characters - seemingly bad clichés the lot of them. And then something wonderful happens. After a rough start (first fourth of the book) this becomes a wonderful parable, a modern fairy tale. It's sweet, it's painful - it's funny. Any writer who can take a gross, out-of-shape, disgusting man who almost dies by choking on his own vomit (yes, I said vomit) and make him into a wonderful, wonderful person knows a thing or two about writing a good tale! Worth the read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved it!,
This review is from: The Makeup Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
I enjolyed this book a lot. The heroine is a make-up artist at a counter in a department store she lives in fantasyland and tells everyone she has a PR job. An easy-to-read amusing book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant!,
This review is from: The Make-up Girl (Paperback)
Have just finished this book, and I have to admit, I could not put it down. This is in fact Andrea Semple's second helping after The Ex-Factor, which I have unfortunately not read (that is, until it arrives on my doorstep hopefully next week). After reading the book's synopsis, I thought it would be a funny, light read - I was more than happy. Faith Wishart is a make-up girl. Not a model, not a make-up artist - a department store make-up girl. However, her mother thinks that she has a top PR job. Why? Because Faith made it all up. She has also invented her own perfect boyfriend to please her mother. All she needs is the real version - and that's when it all goes horribly wrong. After losing her dad, her mother has turned cleaning into an obsession. Her successful brother practically wears a halo, and her runaway sister has recently turned into a celebrity. But Faith is simply a makeup girl. Hardly impressive, ro so she thinks. Without giving too much away, I have to say that this is a fabulous read. Despite the fact that Faith Wishart is a character so unbelievable it's - well, unbelievable - it's definitely one of those read-in-a-day titles.
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