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Notting Hell Hardcover – 31 Aug. 2006

by Rachel Johnson (Author)

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Meet Mimi (Fleming at school/surgery/the butcher's, Mimi Malone at work/dinner parties with attractive men!) Mimi may "have it all", she has the house, the children, the part-time vanity job, the skinny jeans, the feng shui guru, but life chez Fleming it's not as cushy as she'd like (husband Ralph prefers the trout stream in Wiltshire to the fast lane of W11). And when Mimi she meets Si, the new billionaire on the block, at a sushi party, she soon faces a choice of keeping up, or keeping it real...

Then there's her best friend Clare, neatfreak garden designer, deep in bio-panic about her childlessness with eco-architect husband, Gideon. Clare monitors all illicit activity in the private West London compound- from light adultery to heavy building work - and she is watching Mimi as spring turns to summer, and summer to winter...

A wicked comedy of manners filleting life on a Notting Hill communal garden, where lucky residents fall into one of only two social-economic groups: the haves - and the have-yachts...So, take your £3m key (it costs that much because if you lose it, you basically have to buy another house on the communal garden to replace it) and enter Lonsdale Gardens, meet the rest of the rich neighbours and see what really goes on behind that famous garden gate....

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336 pages
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English
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Fig Tree
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31 Aug. 2006
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0670915750
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978-0670915750
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fig Tree; First edition (31 Aug. 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0670915750
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670915750

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Rachel Johnson writes for among others The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, Evening Standard and Easy Living: she is married with three children and lives in London.

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Hell on earth

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2015

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I enjoyed this once it got going; I wasn't too sure at first because the tone of the author seemed rather uncertain. Then she got into her stride about chapter 5 and from there on I was hooked.

It's a lovely soapy wash of a book set in those hallowed money-washed precincts where all the mummies (escept Mimi) are yummy and a delicious expensive snack is only a short walk away. I loved the detail, though some of the early clothes references got a bit tedious - we know Clare is rich, we get it, we don't need every designer's name.

It is quite a smile-a-thon as you recognise the types of people and their traits. In some ways it could have been set in any middle-England village. Mimi probably has the most interesting journey as she gets sexually infatuated with her billionaire. Her little escape from the regularity of her life makes it seem all the more precious as she discovers the age-old male proclivity of moving onto the next one.

Rachel Johnson keeps Clare's journey a little more under wraps, so you are not quite sure by what method she eventually achieves her goal. I loved the set pieces like the garden committee meeting and bonfire night.

Glass of Pinot Grigio, sofa, warm fire and this book - you're well away!

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Gemma Green

Badly written, boring and has no plot

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2018

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Terrible, boring and tedious characters and utterly devoid of plot. I gave up halfway through. I kept waiting for something of interest to happen and it just didn’t. It’s clear from all the tedious guff about plants and flowers that the author is clumsily attempting to pay homage to the mistress of such description- Jilly Cooper (also evidenced by the fact Johnson set the sequel, which i won’t be reading, in the shires a la Jilly). This was just such a deeply boring book. Rachel Johnson appears to have secured a book deal based on her surname rather than her ability to put together an engrossing story. I’ve never written a bad review before, i don’t make a habit of this, but please do not bother with this, it’s so bad!

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hextol

hard work and a novel without any coherent story line or well delineated characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2015

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I found this a very difficult book to enjoy.

it did not feel like a novel with a proper story line and fully developed characters. instead all of the truly dreadful women merged into one amorphous mass.

apart from this, it was so full of rampant snobbery and obsession with money and possessions that it just became too tedious for words and i struggled to get to the end.
could find very little humour ether which might have lightened the load a tad.

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Virginia Gheorghiu

Good, short snap into the snobish rich, full of humour, easy read on a long travel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 October 2015

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Very well written, a pleasure to read, very instructive for a Romanian living pretty close to the place described. A subtle sense of humour, a snap of the snobs and rich. The plot a bit streched with the zillionaire part taking in the community life and the happy moving to the countryside. The sociology of rich snobs and keeping up appereances people but i would have expected a different end.

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A disappointing read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2018

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A bit disappointing - I'd rather hoped Rachel Johnson would be the new Jilly Cooper.

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Pacificblu

No plot

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2016

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Boring and with no real plot to speak of. Goodness knows what there will be to talk about at book club tonight! Not a very engaging read I'm afraid.

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Infantile....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2016

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I never got a sense of who the main characters actually were. Shallow, boring. I really don't know how I made it to the end. Total rubbish. Expected more of Rachel Johnson

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I didn't enjoy this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2015

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I didn't enjoy this book, the people in it are poles apart from me, I thought they were all self centred. very rich and pointless.
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