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Thinking Of You - The Ultimate Escapist Read
Jill Mansell, unlike other writers in the rom-com arena, seems to get better with every book she writes. Thinking of You is her latest offering and proves that it is possible to get better with age!

Ginny Holland, a best selling author if left rattling around in her house on her own after daughter Jem goes to university. Lonely, she advertises her spare room for rent. Instead of a happy roommate, she gets moaning Laurel who is still hung up on her ex-boyfriend. If that wasn’t enough, Ginny finds herself lusting after two men who can only be bad for her. Will Ginny get the man of her dreams, or will he be the one that gets away?

Mansell has a disarming ability to create characters that you already know and that tends to make her books impossible to put down. This book is no different. It is charmingly written, hopelessly funny and will make you forget all of your own troubles as soon as you read the first page.

(ISBN: 0755328116, ISBN-13: 9780755328116)

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Title: House of Echoes
Author: Barbara Erskine
ISBN: 0006479278
EAN: 9780006479277
New Ed. Edition
528 Pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 1996-11-11

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2008-10-09 Inoffensively cheesy.

Given the praise heaped upon it, I was looking forward to reading this book. Although the writing was undeniably good in places (there were several times when my skin did crawl, I admit that much), frankly I was immensely disappointed. The plot was hardly original and I had flashbacks to all those made-for-tv b-movies which are inoffensively cheesy but daft all the same.I found it impossible to engage with any of the main characters, in particular the immensely unlikeable Joss, who seemed to be permanently pregnant or breastfeeding or both. When the local psychic rides into town it bordered on pantomime. Although it was overall quite a pedestrian storyline, the quality of writing helped the climax build well towards the end, so it did start to improve just as the story began winding up. Overall, I would rate this as lightweight and likeable in the great tradition of good holiday reading, but no grand opus.