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The Swallow and the Hummingbird (Hardcover)

by Santa Montefiore (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; First Edition edition (15 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340822910
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340822913
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 701,961 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Classy romantic saga. Escape into a world of ardent love and doomed desire'

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Thoroughly enjoying read, 13 Jul 2004
By Scarymushrooms (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
I'm a big fan of Santa's work. And so when i saw this in the book shop, i knew i had to have it regardless that it was a hardback {which i loathe}. The story goes something along the lines of this,

Rita awaits the arrival of George Bolton having fought in Europe during World War 2. Unfortunately the war has changed George, he finds the small town that they live in too smoothering and decides to go Argentina for a year. Naturally Rita is devastated, having waited so long for George to come back from the war. Before George leaves he proposes to Rita, promising to come back to her. However as in all great romance books there's a slight turn of events.

On the boat to Argentina, George meets the Susan, a woman who is physically scarred {when we finally learn of how she was scarred, its quite disappointing} and naturally they fall in love.

Thats the basic outline of the story, however i found the two main characters of Rita and George weren't fully formed. I found myself disliking Rita, we didnt learn alot about her character. The other charcters in the book are much more engaging such as Mrs. Megalith, Rita's eccentric grandmother, who i simply loved. Also Rita's younger sisters Maddie and Eddie were great creations.

This book really is a terrific read and i found myself crying at the end. It sure pulls the ole heart strings. The reason i give it four stars is because of the lack of character development of Rita, i would have liked to learn more about her, i felt as if i didnt really know her unlike the other characters.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Mills and Boon author without the talent, 10 Nov 2008
By Lily Schultz (Dorset, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Swallow and the Hummingbird (Paperback)
There was no problem coming up with a word to describe this book ~ dire. I should have known what it was going to be like from the title. It might as well have been called 'The Slug and the Lettuce' for all the relevance it had to the book's contents.
I waded through five chapters, gradually losing the will to live. Then I looked at the back of the book ~ 37 chapters. Chuffin' Nora, I thought, life's too short to plough through this twaddle. Unfortunately, this book had been chosen, for some unaccountable reason, as my book club's Book of the Month and I felt obliged to have at least a slight knowledge of what laughably passed for a plot.
The solution? I read one chapter and missed the next chapter until I finished the book. This resulted in absolutely no loss of continuity. If, at the beginning of a chapter, I felt I had missed anything, I could be sure that, by the end, it had been rehashed, dredged up and repeated like a soap, broadcast on too many nights a week.
Was it really so bad? I give you an example of what one character said to another on hearing that their son was leaving home. 'Live in the moment, Faye. Unhappiness comes from trying to put up resistance. Let the current take you too, don't swim against it. What will be will be. Life is a long time.'
Anyone who seriously thinks that stringing a random selection of cliches together constitutes being an author should confine their literary ambitions to writing Christmas cards and compiling shopping lists.
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4.0 out of 5 stars jules, 11 Jun 2009
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This review is from: The Swallow and the Hummingbird (Paperback)
very quickdelivery and good condition , aplogies for late review i did it 2 weks ago and didnt realise it hadnt been submitted/worked
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