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OLIVIA'S BLISS. (Paperback)

by Deborah. Wright (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: POOLBEG (2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 185371903X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853719035
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 76,552 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A black romantic comedy about a father-son love triangle...
"Olivia's Bliss is a black romantic comedy about a young would-be novelist, Olivia, whose love life and career are a disaster. Publishers keep rejecting her literary masterpiece, 'Wickham's Memoirs' (a spicy version of Pride and Prejudice' from Wickham's viewpoint!)and the only excitement in her love-life is her old Ex, ELvis (say no more!) Then she and her two flat-mates, Josephine and Leila advertise for a lodger and along comes the sexy, witty and wild Ricky Caldwell - a 27-year old hunk who works on a womens' mag (he claims he loves spending all day chatting women up about PMT and orgasms). All three fall in love with him - the race begins! Events culminate when they hold a crazy party with the theme 'The Spice Girls Meets The Blues Brothers' and Olivia's attempts at becoming Ginger Spice go horribly, horribly wrong... Life seems at a rock-bottom, when Olivia starts working as a PA for Ricky's father, Sir Henry Caldwell. Despite the fact that her typing speed is two words per three fingers per minute, she bluffs the interview and gets the job. Sir C is everything Ricky's not - he's 47 (twice her age), dominating and a bully - but still brutally sexy. Soon she finds herself embarking on a dangerous affair... It should be easy to forget Ricky... Shouldn't it?... 'Olivia's Bliss' is an outrageously funny romp about falling in love twice...

"I'm 24 years old and I wrote this book after giving up work to sign on and condemn myself to a life of living off baked beans. When I discovered I had won the Poolbeg / Ireland on Sunday competition with the novel, I was chuffed! It comes out in July and Louise Bagshawe has given us a lovely quote to put on the front cover - "Fantastic - you'll be absolutly gripped!" So, there you go! The only draw-back about writing this book was that everyone is assuming it's autobiographical. But I never have, or want to be in a love triangle, particularly not in one between a father and son...(honest!)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Happy and Sensitive, 2 Jun 2001
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Well I read it because I was bored and it was lying around. I got a real lift from it, so I looked on amazon to see if Deborah Wright had written anything else and I read the various reviews of Olivia's Bliss. Some are obviously written by sour, bitter young men unlucky in love and didn't seem to be about the same book I read. Funny how some people can be so negative without any reason.

I'm a single parent without a job most of the time. My family don't want to know me and I was feeling bad about myself. It was great to find a single parent in the book making a go of it, and it made me feel like a normal woman again and much more positive about myself and the future. Now I'm feeling like anything is possible if you're persistent. You may make a few cock ups here and there like Olivia did, but you can pick yourself up and do a better job afterwards. You don't have to feel that your mistakes are all there is in you.

Thank you to Deborah Wright for this positive, sensitive book and for understanding human nature and making life fun again for me.

Really sorry there are no more of her books on Amazon.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I couldn't stop reading it!, 19 April 2001
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For many years I have read nothing but Vedic literature and Indian philosophy so this was a very unusual reading for me! I was delighted that in the midst of all the things happening and all the variety of emotions, there is this spiritual touch. Nobody with an open mind and a sense of humour can possibly find this book boring or superficial. It is optimistic, it brought me warmth and joy inside.

I went through a phase in my life which had similar ingredients and I must say that even if this book probably is mostly made up, I felt very much that it spoke to me in its simple but fascinating way. I've gone through some real extremes and Olivia's Bliss somehow reminded me that life is a wonderful great mystery that must be explored! Ms Wright really goes to the extremes without forgetting to put human nature and life in focus, she doesn't emphasize the dark sides of life which so many other writers and the media aims for. This is truly uplifting.

This novel is full of life and enthusiasm without being silly or childish, it is exploring in an innocent way. I am thrilled to see that a very gifted writer with a good education uses her skills in a way that speaks to common people giving them a blissful experience!

So Jolly well done! Bravo and Hip Hurray!! Deborah Wright is my cup of tea and I really look forward to read a lot more from her!

A reader from Sweden

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Completely ridiculous, 12 April 2001
I felt that this book moved far too fast, skimming over the characters without giving them any real depth, for the sake of racing from one wacky situation to another. I was never convinced by Olivia falling in love with Ricky and then with Henry and then with Ricky and then with Henry... every time apparently realising that no, this was the one she really loved... only to find to wasn't after all. Because of this, I felt that the end wasn't really an ending at all, that the book could have gone on forever (although frankly I'm very glad it didn't) with Olivia chopping and changing from one man to the other forever. Very superficial. It made me wonder if the author has ever been in love?!
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