by Rosie Thomas
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by Rosie Thomas
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by Rosie Thomas
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by Rosie Thomas
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by Rosie Thomas
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When you have everything, what more can you ask for? Rosie Thomas poses this question for her heroine in A Woman of Our Times, the author's most gripping and involving novel since Other People's Marriages. As in that book, Thomas achieves a perfect union between her strongly drawn characters and smooth-as-silk plotting, and the reader is quickly involved in Harriet's struggle to maintain her business empire and deal with her tangled love life. Harriet has progressed from small shopkeeper to become a City favourite as her business steams ahead. She's been linked in the columns with film star Caspar Jensen but an involvement with Simon Archer, who invented a game of chance 40 years ago in a prison camp, will still significantly affect her life. Thomas is just as comfortable with the boardroom clashes as she is with the passionate involvements of her protagonist. Although we've seen heroines like Harriet before, there is more than enough individuality here to mark her out as a powerful central character. --Barry Forshaw
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Three cheers for the career woman. And if she's happiest ignoring all else - especially love and procreation - who's to say she's wrong? That's the sentiment that rises from this new novel by Thomas, author of earlier hits like The White Dove and Bad Girls, Good Women. Harriet Trott Peacock is 30 when circumstances propel her toward entrepreneurial success; she catches her husband, Leo, in flagrante delicto with a dewy young model, then heads off to England's Midlands to track down the man she believes had a long-ago affair with her mother - resulting in Harriet herself. Though agoraphobic Simon Archer claims his relationship with Harriet's mom was purely platonic, he does take a shine to Harriet and gives her a game he devised while a POW in Hong Kong during WW II. So Harriet sets out to market the game, called Meizu, with the help of a handsome venture capitalist named Robin Landwith - with whom she begins a very hot liaison. Meizu sells like hotcakes, but there are rubs, among them lingering doubts about the cozy familial joys Harriet is passing up for the sake of Meizu and the press's pursuit of poor Simon, who eventually commits suicide, causing Harriet worlds of guilt. And when Harriet dumps Robin for a film star, Robin strikes back by wresting Harriet's company from her. But she's only temporarily daunted, soon diving headlong into a development scheme in Kent, which brings deeper satisfaction and a new man. As usual, Thomas' characters have the feeling of real life, though Harriet is perhaps the least lovable of her heroines thus far, since one can't help but wonder about her consuming passion for a game. Unmoving, then, but commercially deft - and likely to draw Thomas' by-now sizable audience. (Kirkus Reviews)
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