Product Description

We may think we are happy, whether it's married with children, living in a big house out in the suburbs with an adoring husband and two beautiful children, or being footloose and fancy free in a cool flat with a great job and lots of friends, but isn't there often a small part of us that thinks the grass is always greener? That longs for what we don't have...From the outside Vicky Townsley would appear to have it all. Features Director of the hugely successful Poise! magazine, she lives alone in London, is single, solvent, and seriously successful. But she'd give it all up in a heartbeat for marriage, children, and a house in the country complete with aga and large lurchers. Amber Winslow on the other hand, has exactly what Vicky Townsley wants, albeit on the other side of the atlantic. A huge stone mansion in Highfield Connecticut, the requisite golden retriever, children (and, naturally, full-time nanny), and a busy charitable commitment for the local Women's League that some might think was just for social climbing. But Amber isn't happy either. Amber hasn't found quite the fulfillment she had expected from being a full-time wife and mother, so when she spots a double page spread in Poise! magazine asking married readers to life swap with a glamorous, single journalist in London, she sits down and writes a letter. But she never expects to be picked...Life Swap is the story of what really happens when two women, both of whom think their happiness lies somewhere else, decide to walk in one another's shoes for one month. It's the story of the grass not being as green as you might think, and of discovering that happiness is not always where you expect it to be.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145384 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

About the Author
Jane Green is the author of Straight Talking, Jemima J, Mr Maybe, Bookends, Babyville, Spellbound and The Other Woman. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and four children.

Customer Reviews

Typical of Jane Green
Having read all of Jane Green's books over the years - Life Swap is what I consider to be her 'new' style. I am a firm believer that Babyville was the last good read from Jane Green. Life Swap, like spellbound was boring, predictable, the usual 'grass is always greener' humdrum from the author. Why she's writing about Highfield, Conneticut (like last time) when her books are mainly appealing to English readers, god only knows - I can only assume it's because she has a house there and doesn't get out of it much.

There are some nice moments in the book but it all seems too false - Vicky being a bit scatty and Amber being the all american perfect is typical of Jane Green's getting less creative by the minute style. And I find her tone of: story telling at the beginning and end (this is a story about.....) thoroughly patronising for the mid twenties reader. Bring back the Babyville era.

Very poor
As the previous reviewer said-dull boring and predictable.

Jane Green is simply writing to a tired old formula now with "fashionable" (desperate housewives in this instance)slants.

She is also STILL label/lifestyle obsessed despite harping on about how that doesn't mattter really

Regretably this book will be a best seller but it doesn't deserve to be

seen this before somewhere
Buyers beware! Having purchased the book or a christmas present I found it is actually the same as 'Life Swap' by the same author (Jane Green)

The book itself is highly recommended though, just be wary that although it's a diferent title the story is exactly the same!