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`Four women, one wedding and unexpected results. Great good fun' --Woman & Home
`This love story will make even the hardest heart go a bit mushy . . . This is the kind of book beach holidays were made for' --Red
'As bubbly as a glass of wedding Champagne' --Cosmopolitan
'Echoes of moreish and much-missed television series like This Life and Cold Feet, along with Richard Curtis movies'
--Fiona Walker
`This is the most gripping chick-lit we've read in a long time - and we've got the injuries from walking into lamp posts to prove it. Anna still mourning her split from Toby - the love of her life - who is due to marry another woman, Rachel. Thow in gold digger Ella, and you've got an explosive mix. As bubbly as a glass of champagne, you'll adore every page' --Cosmopolitan
'Girls, get the hats out, this is an invitation to what might just be the most entertaining gathering of the year' --Shari Low, Daily Record, March 19, 2011
'Brilliantly readable, escapist fun' --Book of the Month, Weight Watchers Magazine May 2011
'Action-packed' --Daily Telegraph, 9 April 2011
'An RSVP you'll say yes to' --News Of The World
`This love story will make even the hardest heart go a bit mushy . . . This is the kind of book beach holidays were made for' --Red
'As bubbly as a glass of wedding Champagne' --Cosmopolitan
'Echoes of moreish and much-missed television series like This Life and Cold Feet, along with Richard Curtis movies'
--Fiona Walker
`This is the most gripping chick-lit we've read in a long time - and we've got the injuries from walking into lamp posts to prove it. Anna still mourning her split from Toby - the love of her life - who is due to marry another woman, Rachel. Thow in gold digger Ella, and you've got an explosive mix. As bubbly as a glass of champagne, you'll adore every page' --Cosmopolitan
'Girls, get the hats out, this is an invitation to what might just be the most entertaining gathering of the year' --Shari Low, Daily Record, March 19, 2011
'Brilliantly readable, escapist fun' --Book of the Month, Weight Watchers Magazine May 2011
'Action-packed' --Daily Telegraph, 9 April 2011
'An RSVP you'll say yes to' --News Of The World
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Four women, one wedding and a day to remember - or rather forget ...Anna's world is rocked when she receives an invitation to her ex Toby's nuptials - Toby was The One, The Love of Her Life, The One That Got Away. Will attending his Big Day finally give her the sense of closure she so desperately craves? Or will it only re-open old wounds? Clare is Anna's best friend, the person who was there for her when she and Toby split all those years ago. But little does Clare know that Toby's wedding day will also change her own life for ever. Ella is a classic femme fatale. She loves men and leaves them without a backward glance. But the one person who's never fallen for her charms is Toby. As he prepares to get hitched, is it too late for a last-ditch attempt to win his heart? Finally, Rachel is the blushing bride-to-be. This should be the happiest day of her life. So how come she feels nothing but a terrible sense of foreboding?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Unlike others I did find Helen's work light and easy to read. However the central relationship of Anna and Toby was more of a damp squib than anything else.
Their relationship feel apart over something and nothing...next thing 10 years on they cannot be apart. I cannot imagine being drippy Anna's friend for 10 years of her agonising and unable to recover from a boyfriend who appeared to have slept with someone else. Perhaps a focus on two key characters may have worked better - I did want to know about how Ella's life changed and Rachel could have had a stronger story. I neither found Anna or Toby interesting or likeable... so I suppose they did deserve each other in the end.
Their relationship feel apart over something and nothing...next thing 10 years on they cannot be apart. I cannot imagine being drippy Anna's friend for 10 years of her agonising and unable to recover from a boyfriend who appeared to have slept with someone else. Perhaps a focus on two key characters may have worked better - I did want to know about how Ella's life changed and Rachel could have had a stronger story. I neither found Anna or Toby interesting or likeable... so I suppose they did deserve each other in the end.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I had hoped this novel would be fun and frothy, but unfortunately I was very disappointed. It traces the interlinked stories of four women, Anna, Clare, Ella and Rachel, beginning with Rachel's upcoming wedding to Toby, Anna's ex-boyfriend from university for whom she still carries a torch. Anna's best friend Clare tries to encourage Anna to finally put Toby behind her, while Ella, Anna's old nemesis from university, is having marital problems of her own.
A significant problem with this book is the lack of research Helen Warner put into it. A previous reviewer has already pointed out the implausibility of one of the plot lines, involving a wife being automatically cut out of her husband's will although previous wills are invalidated upon marriage, and I can weigh in on another matter - the section of the book set in Cambridge, where Anna, Toby, Clare and Ella were supposedly students at Trinity College. Warner has clearly not researched the university at all, or even spoken to somebody from Oxbridge - who would be able to tell her that Cambridge students do not live in 'halls of residence', but college accommodation, do not study in 'tutor groups', but attend supervisions, and that Anna would certainly not be living somewhere with a view of the railway station in her first term, as she'd be living centrally in Trinity College accommodation (it owns half the city, so they wouldn't be short of places to put her!) Poor Anna is also required to achieve an A* and two A grades at A Level to get into Trinity in 1997, although the A* wasn't introduced until 2008, so it's slightly surprising she turns up there at all. Although this all sounds nitpicky, the central point is that Warner writes this section of the novel without absolutely no sense of place, and the rest of the settings are equally bland, although I am unable to comment on their accuracy. It's frustrating because a brief conversation with an Oxbridge graduate or a quick look at the Trinity College website would have cleared these details up immediately, so it would hardly have taken much effort.
This novel is also weirdly paced. One important plot line culminates halfway through the narrative, and unsurprisingly, I quickly lost interest after it was resolved. Ella's and Clare's plot lines add some extra drama, but don't really mesh well with the central narrative and read as sidelines. Rachel, whom I found the most sympathetic of the four women, also shoots off on a tangent. The writing isn't strong enough to hold the reader's attention without a convincing plot, so the novel doesn't really work as a whole. For these reasons, I wouldn't recommend buying this book, and would instead suggest trying a chick lit novel by a better writer, such as Marian Keyes, Harriet Evans or Lindsay Kelk.
A significant problem with this book is the lack of research Helen Warner put into it. A previous reviewer has already pointed out the implausibility of one of the plot lines, involving a wife being automatically cut out of her husband's will although previous wills are invalidated upon marriage, and I can weigh in on another matter - the section of the book set in Cambridge, where Anna, Toby, Clare and Ella were supposedly students at Trinity College. Warner has clearly not researched the university at all, or even spoken to somebody from Oxbridge - who would be able to tell her that Cambridge students do not live in 'halls of residence', but college accommodation, do not study in 'tutor groups', but attend supervisions, and that Anna would certainly not be living somewhere with a view of the railway station in her first term, as she'd be living centrally in Trinity College accommodation (it owns half the city, so they wouldn't be short of places to put her!) Poor Anna is also required to achieve an A* and two A grades at A Level to get into Trinity in 1997, although the A* wasn't introduced until 2008, so it's slightly surprising she turns up there at all. Although this all sounds nitpicky, the central point is that Warner writes this section of the novel without absolutely no sense of place, and the rest of the settings are equally bland, although I am unable to comment on their accuracy. It's frustrating because a brief conversation with an Oxbridge graduate or a quick look at the Trinity College website would have cleared these details up immediately, so it would hardly have taken much effort.
This novel is also weirdly paced. One important plot line culminates halfway through the narrative, and unsurprisingly, I quickly lost interest after it was resolved. Ella's and Clare's plot lines add some extra drama, but don't really mesh well with the central narrative and read as sidelines. Rachel, whom I found the most sympathetic of the four women, also shoots off on a tangent. The writing isn't strong enough to hold the reader's attention without a convincing plot, so the novel doesn't really work as a whole. For these reasons, I wouldn't recommend buying this book, and would instead suggest trying a chick lit novel by a better writer, such as Marian Keyes, Harriet Evans or Lindsay Kelk.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As someone who likes their chicklit to be on the light and frothy side, I really thought I was going to enjoy this but I was disappointed. Even for chicklit the plot was cliched and predictable, the pacing was all over the place and the quality of the writing was poor.
I think the idea is that the reader should fall in love with Anna, arguably the books' central character. Unfortunately I didn't, in fact I found her a dreadful, simpering wreck who is entirely self-absorbed throughout the book. The fact that everyone else in the book loves and/or admires her is simply grating and does nothing to help the character at all - quite the opposite. Most of the characters were similarly vapid and irritating, and I found that it was only an interest in the supporting characters that kept me going until the end.
The fact that the characters met at Cambridge just seemed lazy and unimaginative, and this pretty much sums up the template for the whole book - the characters are broadly drawn caricatures who always do exactly what you would expect them to. All the men are interchangeable and flaky or needy. This all gets very tiresome, as does the cloying narrative.
I think the idea of this book is that it is a guilty pleasure but for me it just didn't work.
I think the idea is that the reader should fall in love with Anna, arguably the books' central character. Unfortunately I didn't, in fact I found her a dreadful, simpering wreck who is entirely self-absorbed throughout the book. The fact that everyone else in the book loves and/or admires her is simply grating and does nothing to help the character at all - quite the opposite. Most of the characters were similarly vapid and irritating, and I found that it was only an interest in the supporting characters that kept me going until the end.
The fact that the characters met at Cambridge just seemed lazy and unimaginative, and this pretty much sums up the template for the whole book - the characters are broadly drawn caricatures who always do exactly what you would expect them to. All the men are interchangeable and flaky or needy. This all gets very tiresome, as does the cloying narrative.
I think the idea of this book is that it is a guilty pleasure but for me it just didn't work.
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