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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: My Sweet Folly
Author: Laura Kinsale
ISBN: 0425209792
EAN: 9780425209790
400 Pages
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2006-04-04

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2006-02-18 A good book but I wasn't always sure what was going on

This book starts brilliantly ? the correspondence between Folie in her little village and Robert Cambourne in India. Folie is married to a much older man who appears to evince little interest in her, and Robert becomes, for her, an escape into someone who is interested in her for herself.

And then the shocking end of the letters, when Folie?s husband dies and she says she is considering coming to see Robert in India ? and he says he is married, has been married all along.

The story continues four years later when Folie and her stepdaughter Melinda are summoned to see Robert Cambourne, now the head of his family and Melinda?s guardian, in England. All communication had been at an end between them but now she is to see him ? the man with whom she fell in love through letters.

Their meeting is unlike anything she imagined it would be ? as Robert appears to be mad. He doesn?t even look as she expected (he only ever described his height to her) although the reader is pleased to discover he?s actually dead dishy.

The story becomes strange and confusing after that. Robert is paranoid ? or is he? He tries to keep Folie and Melinda in his house against their will and they escape to safety with a neighbour ? but is he safe? Melinda?s season in London commences and eventually they run into Robert again.

The book then rather wildly shows Folie as kidnapped along with Robert and a whole host of odd things happen. Robert appears to be psychic, their friendly neighbour a baddie? it got a little confusing here. I suppose this is partly to reflect the muddle in Robert?s brain as he finally is rid of the poison that people really ARE feeding him to make him go mad. There?s a murder, other weird stuff, and it all got a bit jumbled.

Eventually of course things sort out ? Folie and Robert marry, although even here it isn?t smooth as Robert has huge issues of rejection from his previous wife and messes Folie around rather unpleasantly. In fact, this is only really resolved in the last couple of pages, and I wasn?t entirely convinced that they could be happy together.

The book is well written but I found some of it a bit too far-fetched and confusing.