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A Nice Girl Like Me (Paperback)

by Abigail Bosanko (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks (13 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751533947
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751533941
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 226,955 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for Lazy Ways to Make a Living '(A) fizzy, deliciously hedonistic book. A sheer, unalloyed delight' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'Exquisitely realised middle-class fantasy which is just grounded in enough reality to keep it readable, makes LAZY WAYS TO MAKE A LIVING a rare treat' SUNDAY TIMES 'Wryly funny, intelligent and very entertaining' MARIE CLAIRE

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Emily Drummond has just finished her degree and the world is her oyster. She can do anything she wants. So when she marries Andrew, nineteen years her senior, after knowing him less than six weeks, eyebrows are raised. Is this a case of marry in haste and repent at leisure? Is Andrew having a mid-life crisis? Or is this true love for both of them? Then Emily meets Jack, who's just back from travelling the world, and he offers her a glimpse of what life might be like with someone her own age. Suddenly the doubts come crowding in: did she marry Andrew too hastily and does the age-gap matter after all?

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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing after a great debut, 24 Oct 2004
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Having been greatly amused by 'Lazy Ways to Make a Living', I looked forward to 'A Nice Girl Like Me'. I was seriously disappointed - where has the wit and fun gone that actually made 'Lazy Ways to Make a Living' an entertaining (if unbelievable) read ? 'A Nice Girl Like Me' falls firmly into the 'chick-lit' category - and at the bottom end of it ! Although a novel setting, the plot is weak and the ending a convenience.

Bosanko has the capability to write fluently and amusingly and can definitely do better.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Girl Like Me by Abigail Bosanko, 8 Dec 2004
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This book got off to a good start and the whisky setting was a great one but so much more could have been done with it though. The character of Emily was rather too nice and goody goody for my liking and the ending of the book rather dull and predicatbale. A big disappointment of a read after such a promising start.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A nice girl like Abigail, 24 Sep 2004
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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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