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I have read some of Adele Parks other novels but I think this is by far the best and certainly the most well-written. It centres of a group of six characters who go away to celebrate a wedding. You might imagine that they would just be a bunch of cliches, a group of happy dappy friends in Richard Curtis style, which tends to happen a lot in this genre. But Parks does something a lot more interesting and clever. At first none of the characters, excepting Tash, are all that likeable. For all their surface charm and wealth, they all deeply flawed, often selfish and irresponsible. But as the story unfolds Parks also shows that this is what makes them human and by the end I loved them all as if they were people I knew.
Parks has a great eye for observation, for noting the muddled way that people often interact with each other without really understanding what the other is thinking, for the way we are all caught up in our own little worlds. Not since discovering Lisa Jewell have I enjoyed an author so greatly for her powers of perception - in fact I enjoyed this even more than Jewell's wonderful last offering.
This book has heaps of wisdom and a warm heart at its centre. It is playful, generous and touching, and I felt sorry to finish it.
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