Product Description

Work of women's fiction

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35991 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

About the Author
Adele Parks is the author of four bestselling novels: Playing Away, Game Over, Larger Than Life and Other Women's Shoes. She lives in London with her husband and baby son.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Read
I thought this book was a brill read I could not literally put it down! I can't really remember much the other woman's shoes but I don't think it was as good as this. This book was so full of life and so interesting.
I loved it and I loved the characters. It had just the right amount of bitchiness, passion and unpredictability that made it so hard to put the book down.
Anyone who loves love, real-life, comedy and exciting books, should read this book. I would really recommend it.

A fantastic read
This is the best fun read I have read in a long, long time.

I have read some of Adele Parks other novels but I think this is by far the best and certainly the most well-written. It centres of a group of six characters who go away to celebrate a wedding. You might imagine that they would just be a bunch of cliches, a group of happy dappy friends in Richard Curtis style, which tends to happen a lot in this genre. But Parks does something a lot more interesting and clever. At first none of the characters, excepting Tash, are all that likeable. For all their surface charm and wealth, they all deeply flawed, often selfish and irresponsible. But as the story unfolds Parks also shows that this is what makes them human and by the end I loved them all as if they were people I knew.

Parks has a great eye for observation, for noting the muddled way that people often interact with each other without really understanding what the other is thinking, for the way we are all caught up in our own little worlds. Not since discovering Lisa Jewell have I enjoyed an author so greatly for her powers of perception - in fact I enjoyed this even more than Jewell's wonderful last offering.

This book has heaps of wisdom and a warm heart at its centre. It is playful, generous and touching, and I felt sorry to finish it.

love this book!
hi, i loved this book so much, it gets right to the nitty gritty of relationships between lovers , ex lovers, friends and your partners friends. An excellent read and the only bad thing i think is that rich doesnt stand up to jayne properly and tell her exactly what he thinks of her!very good though and long, which is alays good if a book is good, u dont want it to end!