Liz and Jonathan
Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They'd stretched themselves
to busting with their new exciting project - well, Liz thought it
exciting - buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now
couldn't sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages,
mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to
move anyway.
Then Marcus Witherstone came into their lives - and
at first it seemed he would solve all their problems. Marcus, senior
partner in Silchester's leading estate agency, was large, assured, and
wore an expensive overcoat. He knew the perfect tenants from London who
would rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous
Piers. Everything was going to be OK.
But soon Marcus found
himself involved with Liz in a way he'd never intended. Keeping his
adulterous trysts secret from Anthea was uncomfortably easy - most of
the time her head was firmly buried in Improve your Child's IQ.
Meanwhile, as Liz was lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan was
left to run the tutorial college. Neither of them had time to notice
that teenage Alice was developing a desperate passion for the tenants,
Piers and Ginny.
Everyone seemed to be entangled with everyone
else, in the most awkward possible way. And as events closed in on him,
Marcus began to realise that some deceptions are just a bit too close to
home.
Published: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Black Swan
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Series or Stand-Alone: Stand-Alone
Source: Bought
MY REVIEW
After reading Swimming Pool Sunday, I have to be honest and say that I didn't have high hopes for this novel. I had to say that, but its true. With Swimming Pool Sunday I had figured out that the usual sense of humour that I love with Sophie Kinsella novels would be missing from these novels written under the pen name. Knowing and expecting that, I did enjoy this novel a bit more.
What I enjoyed the most about this novel was that it wasn't concentrating necessarily on a whole cast of characters but a few. Mainly, we are following Liz and Jonathan as they navigate their financial troubles and try and find a way out of it. Of course things do not go according to plan and of course there are a lot more problems that crop up along the way.
I still didn't connect with any of the characters enough to be fully invested in the story.
This was an OK read but not one that I would pick up again.
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