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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: Child of the North
Author: Piers DudgeonJosephine Cox
ISBN: 0007202784
EAN: 9780007202782
320 Pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2005-10-24

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2008-05-23 A real mixture

I have never read any of Josephine Cox's novels, but was given this. It's a strange hybrid. It's not an auotbiography - Josephine's voice is heard rarely, and mostly through the voices of her characters. It's not a biography either; Gus Dudgeon has clearly read the novels, but there's little in depth analysis of Josephine. Instead, there are large chunks of passages from the novels (which seem very samey to me). There is some social history, in an interesting chapter about the roots of Blackburn's cotton trade, which even manages to include the story of the Pendle witches. The last chapter is mostly full plotlines from recent novels, which would spoil them for new readers. Yet there's little genuine literary criticism. I found it quite enjoyable, final chapter aside, though I imagine anyone who has read the novels and is looking for a little more, might be disappointed. Even the excellent photos have captions lifted from elsewhere in the text. Browse before you buy!