- Perfect Paperback: 374 pages
- Publisher: ORIEL (1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752809016
- ISBN-13: 978-0752809014
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,671,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Daisy and Min quarreled irrevocably when Min discovered best friend Daisy in bedwith her boyfriend, Hugh. Fifteen years later Daisy is on her way to stay with Min. Prepared to feel envy of her friend's apparent happiness and social position, she finds that Min is struggling: The family estate is run-down; her children are difficult; her mother-in-law critical and her husband, Robert, objectionable. Why is that, within weeks, Daisy would gladly abandon her well- ordered life to change places with Min?
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Victoria Clayton published two children’s books when in her early twenties. She then read English at Cambridge as a mature student, married and had two children before returning to writing fiction. Her previous novels, Running Wild, Dance With Me, Out of Love and Past Mischief, shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award 1999, are all available in Orion Paperback.
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'Of course you remember the quarrel,' Min said as she looked down at the glass of wine she held and then at me. Read the first page
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed "Out of Love" by Victoria Clayton. The main character, Daisy, is a delight and the flashback to Min and Daisy's big falling out was touching. The subplots are well thought out, and help to move the main idea along well. I really ended up commisterating with Daisy, and really hoping things would work out well at the end. The ending was good, and I couldn't predict the outcome until after it had happened.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed "Out of Love" by Victoria Clayton. The main character, Daisy, is a delight and the flashback to Min and Daisy's big falling out was touching. The subplots are well thought out, and help to move the main idea along well. I really ended up commisterating with Daisy, and really hoping things would work out well at the end. The ending was good, and I couldn't predict the outcome until after it had happened.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This novel confounded my expectations ...
4 Jun 2001
Format:Hardcover
I have never read any of V. Clayton's work in the past, so I had little or no expectations for this book. It began well, but many romantic novels do only to descend into standard cliches. For example many authors feel the need to portray their heroine in a totally sympathetic light and her main rival as entirely unworthy and this never happens here. Daisy the heroine is beautiful, intelligent and quite irritatingly competent but in many ways her friend Min is more likeable. Both of them have irritating yet highly endearing flaws. When Min's inadequacies are highlighted - her untidiness and lack of domestic and mothering skills - at first I expected a payoff - but as I read on I realised that the author was describing reality - good people have major faults and that's just the way life is. It was refreshing to read a book where I found myself surprised by plot developments, and compelled to read this book through at a sitting. Nor was I disappointed by the ending, which was genuinely moving, while avoiding melodramatic excess.
I look forward to reading more of this author's works in the future.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
My favorite book this year!
15 Nov 1998
Format:Hardcover
This is a fun book you can really sink your teeth into...at least you'll be sinking your teeth into something as you read it - lots of scenes involve cooking, food, and an AGA stove. Min and Daisy have a warm, wonderful friendship, the kind of bond that can withstand a 15 year separation. All of the characters are very funny and very human. Min's got to be my favorite. I thought I was a flaky mother, but she makes me look like supermom! I am recommending this to all my harried married friends, and all my controlled and controlling single friends as well.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful escape; amusing, intelligent social comedy
19 Jun 1998
Format:Hardcover
I was first put onto this by a 20-yr old girl student who told that all her group were crazy about it. Then a middle-aged man told me he had been unable to put it down and sat up most of a night to finish it. The reviewer for the US 'Publisher's Weekly' is enthusiastic too. I can only agree - really acute social comedy, and more. The reader from Aussie seems to have totally missed the point - the whole story is told from the viewpoint of Diana/Daisy, so "author commentary" would be completely out of place. This is a book clearly aimed at providing enjoyment, not one of those tedious, depressing polemical novels. The characters reveal themselves through excellent and witty dialogue. Nowhere is it suggested Min is "well-balanced and level-headed" the whole point is that she is dedicated to her work and totally neglects husband, house and children. She is the opposite of Diana the control freak. The story shows how two women of very different personalities can nevertheless continue devoted friends. Like all of us they are neither wholly admirable or wholly bad. I give it 5 stars and look forward to the next one.
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