- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd (4 Nov 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0727867253
- ISBN-13: 978-0727867254
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.7 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,234,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a sharp-witted story about life and love. English woman Clio lives in Paris. Twice-married and unlucky in love, she has now become a realist. What she craves above all is stability for her son, Alex, the light of her life. This means she should marry her lover, Philippe, a handsome cultured Frenchman with a large and conventional family. However difficult it is to cope with his perfectionist ways, not to mention his terrifying mother, Clio must not rock the boat. But then her tour-guide career goes astray, and hunky Canadian Joe begins to untidy her sensible thoughts...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Living and working in Paris is the wonderful Clio, slightly too tall, slighty overweight, with (quelle horreur) curly hair, trying to do the best for her son after two failed marriages, trying (and failing) to please her fastidious French boyfriend, Philippe, with his impossible mother who is waiting for him to get back with the ex (who is, of course, beautiful, classy, French and still married to him).
Luckily, Philippe has the most wonderful Aunt - Isabelle - who adores Clio and actually treats her as one of the family (probably due to Aunt Isabelle's relationship with Philippe's mother being frosty to say the least).
Philippe is insistant that Clio pull her weight when it comes to the housekeeping so she works part-time as a tour guide (with a dreadful boss nicknamed Miss Piggy) and also writes rather whimsical travel articles and restaurant reviews for a "one-horse magazine published in America". Philippe also takes it upon himself to recommend she go to Weightwatchers (this is the point when I would have dumped him) and never fails to make critical remarks about the way Clio looks. (His reassurances that he will speak to his ex about a divorce never reassure me either. He's a slime-ball of the first degree.)
As you would hope, Clio finds a wonderful, charming, sensitive man in the form of Canadian Joe, but confusion and misunderstandings ensue, leaving you wondering if anything is ever going to go right for her.
The ending is warm, wonderful and actually perfectly balanced with the rest of the book. And I don't often get to say that!
Beautifully written, with a cast of well-crafted characters, Susie Vereker does it again!
Luckily, Philippe has the most wonderful Aunt - Isabelle - who adores Clio and actually treats her as one of the family (probably due to Aunt Isabelle's relationship with Philippe's mother being frosty to say the least).
Philippe is insistant that Clio pull her weight when it comes to the housekeeping so she works part-time as a tour guide (with a dreadful boss nicknamed Miss Piggy) and also writes rather whimsical travel articles and restaurant reviews for a "one-horse magazine published in America". Philippe also takes it upon himself to recommend she go to Weightwatchers (this is the point when I would have dumped him) and never fails to make critical remarks about the way Clio looks. (His reassurances that he will speak to his ex about a divorce never reassure me either. He's a slime-ball of the first degree.)
As you would hope, Clio finds a wonderful, charming, sensitive man in the form of Canadian Joe, but confusion and misunderstandings ensue, leaving you wondering if anything is ever going to go right for her.
The ending is warm, wonderful and actually perfectly balanced with the rest of the book. And I don't often get to say that!
Beautifully written, with a cast of well-crafted characters, Susie Vereker does it again!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The front cover of this book, the Eiffel Tower in a knot, is delightful and promises quirky charms that are delivered by the bucketful. The author's deft ways with an approachable, identifyable-with heroine and a cast of supporting characters are well demonstrated in this charming novel. A familiar setting - Paris - comes to life as do the environs, as we struggle alongside Clio, who is slightly too much (ample of stomach, English, curly of hair, often married) and at the same time not enough (groomed, French, rude, appealing to the family) for her fussy French boyfriend, trying to work out if she should settle for his slightly dubious charms and rather mad family, or strike out on her own. Conscious of her need to provide a safe background for her teenage son, Clio tries to do the best for everyone until she finally realises that she should do the best for herself.
A lovely setting, marvellous characters (her women are as usual a delight, from the porcine boss to the frosty mother-in-law and the all-too-perfect third-wife-of-the-first-husband) and animals that remain safe and sound.
My only wish would be that this could come out in paperback.
A lovely setting, marvellous characters (her women are as usual a delight, from the porcine boss to the frosty mother-in-law and the all-too-perfect third-wife-of-the-first-husband) and animals that remain safe and sound.
My only wish would be that this could come out in paperback.
Format:Paperback
Another superb book from Susie Vereker! Having enjoyed both An Old Fashioned Arrangement and Pond Lane & Paris, Paris Imperfect certainly didn't disappoint. Good, clear writing, humour and real, believable characters in what is essentially a romantic comedy. Highly recommended!
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