- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Fig Tree (31 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670915750
- ISBN-13: 978-0670915750
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 265,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Shiveringly brilliant (Jilly Cooper )
An addictively funny read about the lives of the rich and richer **** (Heat )
A wickedly funny comedy of modern manners (OK! ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
An addictively funny read about the lives of the rich and richer **** (Heat )
A wickedly funny comedy of modern manners (OK! ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Meet Mimi (Fleming at school/surgery/the butcher's, Mimi Malone at work/dinner parties with attractive men!) Mimi may 'have it all', she has the house, the children, the part-time vanity job, the skinny jeans, and the feng shui guru, but life chez Fleming it's not as cushy as she'd like (husband Ralph prefers the trout stream in Wiltshire to the fast lane of W11). And when Mimi meets Si, the new billionaire on the block, at a sushi party, she soon faces a choice of keeping up, or keeping it real...Then there's her best friend Clare, neatfreak garden designer, deep in bio-panic about her childlessness with eco-architect husband, Gideon.Clare monitors all illicit activity in the private West London compound - from light adultery to heavy building work - and she is watching Mimi as spring turns to summer, and summer to winter...A wicked comedy of manners filleting life on a "Notting Hill" communal garden, where lucky residents fall into one of only two social-economic groups: the haves - and the have-yachts...So, take your GBP3m key (it costs that much because if you lose it, you basically have to buy another house on the communal garden to replace it) and enter Lonsdale Gardens, meet the rest of the rich neighbours and see what really goes on behind that famous garden gate.
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I don't know what woke me up - I drank no alcohol last night, I observed the carb curfew, I had only one espresso during the day, plus I did a Pilates class and hours of gardening in the fresh air - but I'm definitely awake now. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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I don't know what woke me up - I drank no alcohol last night, I observed the carb curfew, I had only one espresso during the day, plus I did a Pilates class and hours of gardening in the fresh air - but I'm definitely awake now. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i enjoyed this. A witty insight into the self obsessed Notting Hill set, and a peep at how the other half lives (or pretends to!) Its light hearted, slightly 'P'-taking, with several celeb name drops. Read it for light entertainment not for a rivetting storyline, that was all too predictable.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is great fun to read especially if you know anybody with loads of money who is self-obsessed, spends their life shopping and keeping up with other similar over wealthy types. Also the sheer pretentiousness that is life in Notting Hill is brilliantly lampooned.
Johnson is clearly sending herself up as well as her nearby neighbours who must have a sense of humour since no one appears to have taken her to court yet.
It might not be worthy, serious literature but it had me laughing out loud, sometimes in horrified recognition and it's definitely a massive cut above much of the tedious chick lit out there.
Johnson is clearly sending herself up as well as her nearby neighbours who must have a sense of humour since no one appears to have taken her to court yet.
It might not be worthy, serious literature but it had me laughing out loud, sometimes in horrified recognition and it's definitely a massive cut above much of the tedious chick lit out there.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Rachel Johnson's book Notting Hell is a very funny, amusing, approaching brilliant at times, look at life in W11. Her acute observations of communal garden living and take on life of what is viewed as the norm -left me wishing that more of the second part of the book was like the first sixty pages. A very easy read and very enjoyable.
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nothing going
I bought this book based on the endorsement by Sophie Kinsella, but unfortunately I couldn't get into the story or identify with the characters. I found it actually rather boring. Read more
Published 15 months ago by rexclick
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Product condition was used and clearly had been. Happy with purchase and would buy again from seller.
Published 20 months ago by Anna
Nothing to write home about
This was really nothing special and I was quite disappointed overall because it had all the ingredients to be a great yarn. Read more
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Tied up in Notts
I'm really not too sure what to make of this. It's not your usual tired chick lit (haphazard heroine, on the look out for a man who does all manner of amusingly endearing things on... Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2008 by S.M. Gidley
A hellish read
Johnson's stated aim is to mock the super-rich, super-elite West London social sect she belongs to. Instead, with every celebrity name check and description of their absurdly... Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2008 by James Lyons
Thought I was going to love it, but it let me down!
I loved the beginning and middle of this book - it's a sharp, accurate and satisfying satire about the 'haves and the have yachts' of London's most exclusive district. Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2007 by Cando
A big disappointment...
Sorry guys, I really wanted to like this book and best thing about it actually is the title, which I found great. It simply does not live up to its hype or the blurb on the back. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2007 by T. Ljubic-Brown
Terrible...
I cannot begin to describe how ghastly this book is - words genuinely fail me. Rachel Johnson is a freelance writer/housewife who lives in a large house in Notting Hill with... Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2007 by Ingaborga
Brilliant
What a joy. What a giggle. Rachel Johnson had me totally hooked on her rolicking tale of West London Yummy Mummies, whilst simultaneously stiring my bread sauce over Xmas; I... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2007 by G. Fordham
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I share the previous reviewer's reticence about this book. My initial condition was short lived. It is easy to read and witty, with fantastic observations on the life and lives... Read more
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