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Enjoy!!! If you have never read Jane Green...now is the time to start!!!
All her books are enjoyable and i guarantee you will be keen to read all her books ..
Perfect for Summer holidays!! I read this in 3 days and didn't want it to end...
One to leave in your holiday cottage I'd say 'The Beach House' is a good choice for a holiday read - as in a book that doesn't keep you from sightseeing on your summer holiday because it's just not interesting enough to want to lie around reading. Not the kind of book I tend to normally choose, but I was hoping to enjoy it all the same. It reminded me very much of magazine fiction...those short stories that I only used to read when I'd read everything else and done the word search! Actually, it wasn't really awful, just not very... more info
Beach house foam Jane Green tends to write write fluffy beach reads, the sort of books that get turned into equally fluffy TV movies. And in "The Beach House," she links together a series of storylines that could have easily made up their own books, with a warm'n'fuzzy sentimental core in an ancient Nantucket house. Unfortunately it begins to come unravelled about halfway through, and some of those storylines simply rush to the finish line without bothering to spin up a satisfactory conclusion. Eccentric widow Nan... more info
Sorry :o( First thing that needs to be said is this is better than Second Chance. It really is better. The only problem is this isn't very good, either. I really think Green has just run out of ideas, or inspiration, because one of the characters in this book is a 37-year old woman called Carrie... who happens to be a writer. Are we directly ripping characters off tv shows now? Another character is called Matt; a gay man who is every woeful stereotype you could possibly imagine. Amongst others, he calls people... more info
