Product Description

Tabitha's Beauty Parlour is a haven. The women who cross its portals enter a perfumed world where never a hard note is struck. To Tabitha, Beauty is a broad canvas from which she will draw out what she can. But when Chloe, Tabitha's trainee, sets out to prove that she can give her clients the makeover of a lifetime, the quest for feminine perfection achieves hilarious consequences...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #470304 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Getting better all the time...
I like Mavis Cheek's work, but I think it was a mistake that I started with her later novels, "Getting Back Brahms" and "Three Men on a Plane". Her wonderful use of irony and subtle humour has matured. Here in "Sleeping Beauties" you can see more of the joins. It is still a great story and an interesting idea, but I feel it is somewhat naively rendered. It tends to the black and white for the longest time, and the message is to be seen coming from a mile off. In the later books the technical side of things has been smoothed out and there are a lot more grey areas which allow for more realistic representation. As an early work it is great, compared to the later stuff it lacks somewhat. Nevertheless an entertaining and worthwhile read.