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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: Moral Hazard
Author: Kate Jennings
ISBN: 1841157376
EAN: 9781841157375
176 Pages
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Binding: Hardcover
Publication date: 2002-04-02
Author: Kate Jennings
ISBN: 1841157376
EAN: 9781841157375
176 Pages
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Binding: Hardcover
Publication date: 2002-04-02
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Kate Jennings' first novel, Snake, was praised for combining "dry comedy" and "genuine heartbreak"; now she has used the same sweet and sour recipe in her second book Moral Hazard--but with even more raw ingredients. The heroine is thirtysomething Cath, a smiling, punning, do-gooding bien pensant who has somehow ended up in the vicious purlieus of Wall Street, dealing billions with the great white sharks of high finance. This unfeasibly high-powered employ contrasts sharply with Cath's homelife. She's married to a man 25 years her senior: "sweet Bailey, dearest Bailey... optimistic where I was pessimistic, enthusiastic where I was distrustful". This marriage is not perfect: as Cath mordantly observes "marriage is awful in its nearness. Yoked together, bound, in a three-legged race with no finishing line." Nevertheless Cath and Bailey, in their May/December way, have found a modus vivendi, a kind of happiness. Then, horribly, Bailey is diagnosed with Alzheimer's...
Three chapters in we learn this terrible truth, and the rest of the book concerns Cath's desperate, affecting, sardonic, resolute ways and means of dealing with Bailey's rollercoaster ride to the inevitable--or even worse. It's not an easy journey; this is not the easiest of books. What largely rescues the whole from being a whiny or self-pitying lament is the prose: humorous, energetic, sharp, urbane and vivid. Rather like the September 11, 2001 Manhattan Jennings describes so well.--Sean Thomas
