Product Description

'Her husband was sleeping with Carrie...the two people she loved most in the world were sleeping together.' Carrie is beautiful and untamed, a single girl with her own business and the pick of the men. Her older sister Poppy is an earth mother, with a successful career in the theatre and happy home life. Since they were children, Poppy has always looked out for her sister - she knows Carrie has a darker, destructive side. But she never dreams Carrie would hurt her. But Carrie can't help herself. She provides danger, excitement, great sex - all the things that had faded in Eduardo and Poppy's marriage. And in destroying her sister's peace of mind, she risks losing all those who love her.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #427194 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

great get-away-from-it-all holiday read
This is quite different from "Leaving Patrick", Prue Leith's first novel, although it too draws heavily on her experience in catering to flesh out one of the sisters of the title - Carrie, who works as a food stylist. This is a rollicking read, great fun and with an original twist on the sibling rivalry theme. I don't agree with the reviewer who has complained that one of the main characters using strong language is out of character - the poor man was under a lot of strain at the time! Pack it with the suntan cream and enjoy.

Why look beyond turning those pages?
... What we do indeed have here is a page turner, very much so, and I hope it's unusual to encounter quite such severe censorship as can write off so many words as a result of so few.

I'm not someone who easily takes, these days, to fiction. I'm not easily drawn in. But if you're a natural reader who doesn't want dark depression, still less wanting nothingness in its place, then get ordering.

Prue Leith offers an omniscient view (such as I usually hate) of relationships in all kinds of time-honoured, horribly identifiable trouble. A frighteningly strong grip, too, on the idea of self-doubt. This novel is deft, entertaining, and overcomes all my prejudices at least.

I can easily see how Trainspotting appears beyond the pale, but Sisters is bright and a breeze.

Superb book spoiled by an error of judgement
I was really enjoying this book, it had a good story line and kept me turning the pages. I was looking forward to passing it on to my sisters and recommending it to my friends, but near the end one of the hitherto polite and dependable characters suddenly uses strong sexual bad language that is neither in keeping with his character nor in keeping with the ethos of the book. I was so disappointed and now feel that I cannot recommend the book to anyone.