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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: Fruit of the Lemon
Author: Andrea Levy
ISBN: 0747261148
EAN: 9780747261148
New Ed. Edition
352 Pages
Publisher: Headline Review
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2000-02-03

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Andrea Levy writes with wonderful immediacy and liveliness in this, her third novel about the experience of being black in Britain. It's the late 70's and Faith Jackson's in a hurry - to loosen the hold of her loving but strict parents, to "go her own sweet way". At her new job as a dresser at Television Centre Faith negotiates the trip-wires of being black in often slyly witty, seemingly throwaway asides. But her parents' announcement that they might go home to Jamaica and a vicious racist National Front attack on a local bookshop, propels Faith into crisis.

Urged by her parents--"Child, everyone should know where they come from"--she goes to Kingston to stay with garrulous Auntie Coral. For Faith, it was her aunt's and cousin's rich and lively sequence of conversational storytelling's that 'wrapped me in a family history and swaddled me tight in its stories' - then released her into a new sense of self.

Fruit of the Lemon is an affectionate and absorbing narrative that makes its points about racism's effacements and brutalities with unforced but striking resonance. It offers us a voice of pleasurable yet gritty substance and significance: millennial Britain needs more like this. --Ruth Petrie

2008-07-05 Not what I had hoped for

I loved Small Island and was keen to read more of AL's work. It started off great, the humour, the understated points she made about family, racism, Britain..it was an interesting story, and I stayed interested up until she got to the intersections about individual members of Faith's family. And those I found increasingly dull. It'd be like me telling someone about my life and then banging on about great aunt Fanny and how she worked in a shop, or every dream I'd ever had, or why great uncle Bill had done whatever. Its not that fascinating to me, and it wouldn't be wherever she'd gone. I wanted to hear more about Faith, not random relatives, however useful they may be in illustrating cultural differences/yeah we're all racist. In fact I'd have liked to know where Carl was going. Sorry to those who loved it, I am creaking towards the end and am not sure I'm going to make it.