Product Description

The first novel for Harper fiction from the Guardian top 100 fast-seller, and "Sunday Times" top five bestseller; is an intelligent, fun and feel-good novel about best friends, about settling down and about throwing it all away. Do you fall in love with your heart or your head? Two best friends have two different attitudes to love: one is sensible, practical, and contented with her kind husband; the other makes impetuous romantic choices that lead to broken hearts and high drama. But what happens when the married friend encounters real passion for the first time? When she starts to wonder if she's made the right choice? A novel about best friends, about settling down and about throwing it all away...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123943 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
Praise for Freya North: 'Freya North makes serious observations about the fear of the commitment in this funny debut novel' Womans Journal 'Read of the month...settle down and indulge' Cosmopolitan 'Passion, guilt, envy love and sex, topped with lashings of laughs. Freya North has done it again, only better' Express 'Freya North is on a roll...stamped with foxy, feelgood flair' She Magazine

About the Author
Freya gave up a PhD to write her first novel, Sally, in 1991. For 4 years she turned deaf ears to parents and friends who pleaded with her to "get a proper job". Sally is published to great acclaim and Freya is heralded a fresh voice in fiction. Her next books, Chloe, Polly, Cat, Fen and Pip have all proved bestsellers and Love Rules will be no exception.

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful but easy read
I read this book for 'light relief' after a previous couple of heavy novels I'd made my way through. It didn't quite reach my unfair expectations - the shocking secret that Thea discovered about Saul is not what I expected it to be. But I found most of the others outcomes quite predictable.
Some of it was a bit too 'nice' for my liking ... maybe I'm just jealous that there are people out there that can afford to buy in London at all, let alone within their 'chosen postcodes', and furnish their apartments with items that don't come from Ikea!
Like one other reader, I found the graphic sex moments a little too descriptive for my liking.
It was thought provoking and I felt it dealt with some issues that some typical chick-lit fails to mention. So well done Ms North!

Better than the others!
Having read all Freya North's other books, I've never really decided if I particularly like her style of writing but I have to say this is her best one yet. Only on the rare occasion in this book does she revert to dialogue between the reader and the characters which has so annoyed me in the past. I did feel that some of the sex scenes could have done with a little less information but perhaps I'm just a prude!
Overall, a very good read with a more unusual storyline to the other chicklits around.

Incredible
I have almost read all of Freya North books and so far this is simply the best so far, it's so much different compared to her last books.

You could almost relate to either one of the characters with the likes of Alice, Thea, Saul,and Mark. It's totally orginal and very out of the ordinary. But i love it and would read it again.