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Friends Like These (Paperback)
by Victoria Routledge (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  (21 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks (20 May 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751527122
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751527124
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 561,572 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Victoria Routledge's exhilarating first novel, Friends Like These, is a warm and witty story about a group of Cambridge graduates. The friends, who had been inseparable at college since their Fresher's Week meeting, arrange a weekend reunion in the Lake District. The weekend has several objectives: to celebrate the engagement and plan a wedding for Mike and Laura as well as to renew bonds with their closest friends. The weekend moves from the domesticity of Laura and Rachel trying to "out-cake" each other to the unexpected arrival of jet- setting actress, Caroline, whose sole objective seems to be to turn heads. Their friendships are indeed renewed but not until Caroline's atrocious behaviour is exposed and the many years of bottled-up anger is vented with scintillating effect. Friends Like These is fresh and funny with tight, sparkling dialogue and quick-witted insight into the friendships of seven twenty- something graduates with very different life goals. --Pat Naylor

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Remember sitting on a melted Mars Bar on the way up to a hot summer wedding? The lyrics to songs by Fairground Attraction? Photocopying your face out of boredom on a holiday temp job? The friend who always took a photo of you on a bad hair day? Yes?

So does Rachel, now out of University but doing one of those 'Look, no hands!' jobs in a PR firm. So when her best friend Alex persuades her to join in with a celebratory weekend in the Lake District with some old friends, it is with mixed feelings. For though Rachel, now happily involved with her photo-journalist boyfriend Finn, remembers the good old days; the fun, the laughs, the gossip; she also remembers the bad bits, not least the malice with which actressy Caroline behaved towards her. Not one for holding back, Rachel goes forth and heads North. After all, it could all be perfect...

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Customer Reviews

21 Reviews
5 star: 52%  (11)
4 star: 33%  (7)
3 star: 4%  (1)
2 star: 4%  (1)
1 star: 4%  (1)
 
 
 
 
 
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Frothy, Friendly....and a great Debut!, 29 May 2000
By A Customer
Victoria Routledge completely captured me with this book. Being at university myself, I could relate easily to the group of friendships. The style in which the book is written gives the characters life and bounce and the situations were very much lifelike. I didn't want the book to end but at the same time I wanted to see how Rachel got her revenge and how the story would be left....I even went to Cambridge, rode on a punt, eating strawberries and drinking Pimms with a couple of friends.

The book, to me was totally unputdownable - and I am very much looking forward to reading Kiss Him Goodbye (which i own but have not yet had the time to read). I think Victoria Routledge is definitely a budding novelist - and at the age of 24 - well on her way to being highly featured in the future.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A bit too fabulous dahling, 28 Jun 1999
By A Customer
Light, nice and fun, but...

As primary-coloured pop fiction, I wasn't expecting much, but was still disappointed by the presumption that we all find glossy oxbridge media dahlings utterly riveting. Don't get me wrong, it's far more entertaining than flat-caps and whippets, but the stereotypes are bound to have anyone West End whincing. Yes, these people exist; yes, we all recognise them; yes these things happen; but their juxtapostion seems all artificial, the stereotypes are tied together by cliches, London just dosn't feel authentic (there weren't nearly enough Australians...).

The second half of the book seemed to sit better with me, and, aside from a few points which felt rather belaboured, Victoria Routledge's writing was good enough, the plot was fine, it's just the environment and characterisation were too simple. Friends Like These will I'm certain be a success, however although I'll probably read her future books, I sincerely hope that Victoria Routledge dosn't decide, given it's success, to use FLT as a template for future stories, as she seems capable of much better.

2 out of 5 aint great, but 40% is still a pass in most exams, I'm a harsh marker, and compared to most pop fiction it probably deserves a three.

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