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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A nice girl like Abigail, 24 Sep 2004
By A Customer
Abigail Bosanko's writing style is such that I have managed to read both her books in two sessions each. The first one, Lazy Ways To Make A Living, in the comfort of my "other" home on Islay, earlier this year and the latest one, A Nice Girl Like Me, over two blissful mornings in bed. It seems that working nights does have some benefits after all!In A Nice Girl Like Me Emily Montrose has married Andrew Drummond only six weeks after meeting him, impulsive perhaps but with the 19 year age gap could it be called foolish? Eighteen months in and the honeymoon period my be over when Emily meets Jack, a young free spirited entrepreneur, through her new job at The Whisky Society in Edinburgh. During this time Emily and her best friend Flora, a whisky "Nose" at The Society, have come across the Holy Grail of the whisky industry - a product to market at women - a pink whisky they name "Wild Cat". But can the whisky hierarchy accept such developments? I must interject at this point that I understand if some of you are feeling slight déjà vu, you may not have read this book, yet, but pink whisky, for girls, that rings a bell. Life, they say, is full of coincidences and the release of this book and Bruichladdich's "Flirtation" in the same week, I have been assured, is just one of them. As with her first novel the writer punctuates her prose with snippets from factual writing. This time using quotes from the works of esteemed whisky writer Charlie MacLean and whisky tasting notes from The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, amongst others, to give the reader a better "feel" for the subject matter but in doing this she also cleverly enhances their understanding of the developing characters and story. Although Abigail has chosen the exciting and ever changing whisky industry as the back drop to her story, underneath it all it is a witty, and at moments, a heartfelt novel. This book, like any good dram, starts off as pure potential but with time it develops a long satisfying finish. If Abigail Bosanko writes her novels in the same methodical way that Flora sets up her whiskies for tasting I, for one, cannot wait for the third, fourth and fifth.
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