It was Patrick's idea that they should have the tennis party. After all, he has the perfect setting -- the White House, bought out of his bonuses as an investment banker. He hasn't actually told Caroline, his brash and beautiful wife, what the real reason for the party is. She is glad to welcome Stephen and Annie, their impoverished former neighbours, less glad to see newly wealthy Charles and his aristocratic wife Cressida, and barely able to tolerate the deadly competitive Don and Valerie.
But as the first ball is served over the net it signals the start of two days of tempers, shocks, revelations, the arrival of an uninvited guest, and the realization that the weekend is about anything but tennis.
Published: 9th June 2011
Publisher: Black Swan
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Series or Stand-Alone: Stand-Alone
Source: Bought
MY REVIEW
OK, so I am on a roll with these novels now. Since I am not really enjoying them as much as I thought I would I am just going to read them one after the other just to say that I have read them. I wouldn't normally continue if not for the fact that I absolutely love Sophie Kinsella's main novels and as one of my favourite authors I like to say that I have read all her novels, including those I don't necessary get on with.
Honestly, I didn't have a lot of fun with this one. There were far too many characters and of those many many characters that were in this novel I didn't really connect or care about any of them or their stories. There was a certain point in the middle of this book where I just was bored and my interest never really came back again.
I wish I had loved this more because I adore the author but this was just not for me.
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