- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Headline Review; New Ed edition (4 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747257833
- ISBN-13: 978-0747257837
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 474,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A light-hearted and likeable tale'
(Prima )'Racy love story'
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Love is always just around the corner in a Jill Mansell novel - with a few surprises and a lot of humour on the way to happiness
Poppy Dunbar is out on her hen night when she meets Tom Kennedy. With his dark eyes and quirky smile, he could lure any girl off the straight and narrow, but what really draws Poppy to him is the feeling that she’s known him all her life. She can’t go through with the meeting they arrange – but she can’t go through with the wedding either.
Suddenly notorious as ‘The Girl Who Jilted Rob Macbride’, Poppy moves to London. Soon she’s installed in the bohemian household of Caspar French, a ravishingly good-looking young artist with a reputation for breaking hearts. But even in her colourful new home, Poppy can’t get Tom off her mind. Until she’s tracked him down, she’ll never know if their meeting was destiny – or if the future holds something entirely different for her…
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I so enjoyed reading this book. It caught me up and didn't let me go til I had finished it. The story revolves around Poppy who, after a brief conversation with a man (Tom) she meets on her hen night, realises that she can't marry her fiancee the next day. She does the decent and rather traumatic thing and tells Rob it's all off on the morning of the wedding, but misses her chance to find out if Tom could really be the one. In the ensuing uproar, Rob lets slip the family secret that Poppy's father is not the cold, unfeeling man that brought her up, instead she is the product of a summer fling that her mother had long ago with a man who fled back to his wife in London. With that, Poppy moves to London herself, with several motives: find Tom, find her real father, find herself a better life. She ends up living with gorgeous artist and total man-whore, Caspar and snobby, moody Claudia. If she finds her father, will he want to know her? If she finds Tom, will their relationship be what they both thought it could be? Can she resist Caspar's charms as he flirts and beds his way around London? And so the story begins...
The story was very involving. There are quite a lot of side characters as well as the main three; Claudia's selfish mother, Poppy's geeky boss, her almost sister-in-law, Dina, and Tom, the elusive man who so captured her heart that night. They are well-written characters that all have an important role to play in the story.
Jill Mansell writes the story in a way that keeps you informed of each character's thoughts but ups the suspense factor because so much is left unsaid to each other and so much is misunderstood. I was racing towards the end of the book (always a good sign!) to find out what was going to happen and there were several good twists along the way. I really enjoyed the fact that, at key points in the plot, the characters didn't react at all how I was expecting to some of the main events. It kept me on my toes and ensured that the book was not nearly as predictable as you might first think.
I highly recommend it. I found it very absorbing and I felt quite satisfied when i finished it.
The story was very involving. There are quite a lot of side characters as well as the main three; Claudia's selfish mother, Poppy's geeky boss, her almost sister-in-law, Dina, and Tom, the elusive man who so captured her heart that night. They are well-written characters that all have an important role to play in the story.
Jill Mansell writes the story in a way that keeps you informed of each character's thoughts but ups the suspense factor because so much is left unsaid to each other and so much is misunderstood. I was racing towards the end of the book (always a good sign!) to find out what was going to happen and there were several good twists along the way. I really enjoyed the fact that, at key points in the plot, the characters didn't react at all how I was expecting to some of the main events. It kept me on my toes and ensured that the book was not nearly as predictable as you might first think.
I highly recommend it. I found it very absorbing and I felt quite satisfied when i finished it.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It was an enjoyable book I finished it in 2 days! Perfect for holiday reading if you don't feel like concentrating. Poppy thinks she meets The One on her hen night, just before she is about to be married the next day. He is dark, cute and sexy and he likes her, tells her he's a doctor. They get up to a bit but not kissing or anything like that. Poppy obviously doesn't love her hubby that much otherwise she wouldn't have 'fallen in love' with Tom (the cute guy). She is torn in 2, they plan to meet somewhere aftewards but she doesn't but she still cancels her wedding. She then moves to London straight after that and there we are introduced to a whole lot of colourful, believable (some of them) characters. Mansell keeps you guessing till the end as to who is Poppy's true love. I like the way Mansell always makes every character find love and their lives always have a happy ending.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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When Poppy Dunbar meets handsome Tom on her hen night it makes her realise that getting married the next day to Rob Macbride is a bad idea. To escape the fall-out that arises when she jilts the most desirable bachelor in town, Poppy moves to London. She ends up with a room in the bohemian household of Casper French, an eccentric young artist known almost as much for his success with the opposite sex as for his paintings. Inbetween working for unassuming Jake on the antiques stall during the day, her less regular evening job, trying to make friends with posh housemate Claudia and fielding calls from Casper's girlfriends, Poppy keeps a look-out for Tom, the man who destiny put in her path with such far reaching consequences.
Though the reader might have a good guess at the eventual outcome of one or two story lines early on, the getting there is a lot of fun and not always predictable. The characters are overall fairly stereotypical but nevertheless on the whole well fleshed out, you'll soon have a favourite or two. The book is very much about the interaction between the male and female cast and, though not as chaste as Barbara Cartland, by no means explicit. From misunderstandings and well meant actions that backfire to moments of triumph, there are tears of sadness and tears of joy aplenty. The ending... well, it is what makes or breaks a book, isn't it? For my part it was spot on in this case.
It struck me that maybe in a hundred years time someone like Jill Mansell will be called the Jane Austen of the twenty-first century. Where once upon a time it was the genteel setting of the English countryside that might have been the dream of young girls and Jane Austen someone to perfectly describe its inhabitants, we now have partying yuppies living in trendy London areas and Jill Mansell catching the moment. The book certainly reflects the change in attitudes towards relationships, especially amongst women as well as capturing some of the fun of living in places like Noting Hill when you are young and unattached.
One for the girls. Read with feet up and a mug of hot chocolate when you fancy a bit of light entertainment.
Though the reader might have a good guess at the eventual outcome of one or two story lines early on, the getting there is a lot of fun and not always predictable. The characters are overall fairly stereotypical but nevertheless on the whole well fleshed out, you'll soon have a favourite or two. The book is very much about the interaction between the male and female cast and, though not as chaste as Barbara Cartland, by no means explicit. From misunderstandings and well meant actions that backfire to moments of triumph, there are tears of sadness and tears of joy aplenty. The ending... well, it is what makes or breaks a book, isn't it? For my part it was spot on in this case.
It struck me that maybe in a hundred years time someone like Jill Mansell will be called the Jane Austen of the twenty-first century. Where once upon a time it was the genteel setting of the English countryside that might have been the dream of young girls and Jane Austen someone to perfectly describe its inhabitants, we now have partying yuppies living in trendy London areas and Jill Mansell catching the moment. The book certainly reflects the change in attitudes towards relationships, especially amongst women as well as capturing some of the fun of living in places like Noting Hill when you are young and unattached.
One for the girls. Read with feet up and a mug of hot chocolate when you fancy a bit of light entertainment.
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