- Paperback: 342 pages
- Publisher: Strapless (5 Dec 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0758209509
- ISBN-13: 978-0758209504
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,110,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you have already read "Other People's Lives", don't bother to get a copy of "Would I Lie To You?" It's the same novel, just under a different title. Or is it the Publisher's mistake? Very disappointed as I was looking forward to reading a new book of Sheila Norton and had preordered it before it was released.
I would give 5 stars to "Other People's Lives" and none to this book. But as I have to rate it, I'm giving it one star.
I would give 5 stars to "Other People's Lives" and none to this book. But as I have to rate it, I'm giving it one star.
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A wonderful read.
16 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
This is a story about 29 year old Beth and her 4 year old daughter Ellie. Apparently, the father has left them for another woman and she's raising Ellie by herself. Beth's hard working as a 'house cleaner' doesn't seem to be paying off when she has to keep dipping into her daughter's savings to be able to afford food and pay the bills. Besides trying to make ends meet, Beth has to put up with a pushy mother who won't stop comparing her to her 'perfect' brother and sister. Then when thigns can't get any worse, she has a fall out with her best friend Fay about something that's pretty big.
I recommend this to anyone who's a struggling single mother and has a hard time finding a man. Even if you aren't a mother, like me, you'll still enjoy this funny entertaining book.
I recommend this to anyone who's a struggling single mother and has a hard time finding a man. Even if you aren't a mother, like me, you'll still enjoy this funny entertaining book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
well written character driven chick lit tale
11 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
Wannabe writer single mom Beth Marsten raises her four years old daughter Ellie while making Weetabix or Shreddies food money by cleaning houses. Currently she thinks her life is in the toilets that she scrubs as her boyfriend Daniel, her and her job literally stinks especially since there is no hazardous duty pay. Making the already acrimonious Beth even more cantankerous is her parents who blithely, out of good intentions, tell her to obtain a better job; like anyone volunteers to clean latrines.
Beth's favorite client is Alex Chapman, whose mother pays her to clean the single young executive's apartment though there is nothing to do as it is pristine. At his place with little cleaning to do, Beth uses his computer to write a television script, but saves her work to a disk rather than the hard drive. When she meets Alex, she confesses what she does in his apartment. He admits the place is not lived in; he uses it as a sham to keep his mom off his back. He also shows her script to his estranged wife Sarah, a literary agent, who likes what she reads and offers to represent Beth. As Beth and Alex fall in love, she has difficult choices to make.
Sheila Norton's well written character driven chick lit tale will please fans because of Beth, a fine protagonist whose choices are not simple with potential falls on whatever she does. She matures during the fine written story line as she understands what a web we weave when we spin even a tiny white lie to deceive. Though the "epilogue" contains a sudden out of nowhere after a six month gap climax, readers will take great pleasure in this wonderful tale; now WOULD I LIE TO YOU otherwise?
Harriet Klausner
Beth's favorite client is Alex Chapman, whose mother pays her to clean the single young executive's apartment though there is nothing to do as it is pristine. At his place with little cleaning to do, Beth uses his computer to write a television script, but saves her work to a disk rather than the hard drive. When she meets Alex, she confesses what she does in his apartment. He admits the place is not lived in; he uses it as a sham to keep his mom off his back. He also shows her script to his estranged wife Sarah, a literary agent, who likes what she reads and offers to represent Beth. As Beth and Alex fall in love, she has difficult choices to make.
Sheila Norton's well written character driven chick lit tale will please fans because of Beth, a fine protagonist whose choices are not simple with potential falls on whatever she does. She matures during the fine written story line as she understands what a web we weave when we spin even a tiny white lie to deceive. Though the "epilogue" contains a sudden out of nowhere after a six month gap climax, readers will take great pleasure in this wonderful tale; now WOULD I LIE TO YOU otherwise?
Harriet Klausner
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