Books by Catherine Alliott
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review 1: I'm torn between a 3 and 4 for this book. I found the main character unlikeable for the majority of the book. However, I appreciate the fact that Catherine Alliott went out on a limb to provide us with a different type of chick-lit. Then ending was not as I would've liked in t...
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review 1: This book touched me more than I expected; I�d anticipated frothy chick-lit in the vein of Sophie Kinsella, but found the plot to be unexpectedly complex. Evie Hamilton lives an idyllic life as the wife of an Oxford don, but her world is turned upside down when a slight mishap f...
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review 1: Book about a woman called Poppy Shilling who loses her husband in an accident. She'd mentally imagined ways of killing him off many times but it was still a shock when it happened. I enjoyed getting to know Poppy and her three friends, her neighbour Jennie, divorced Angie and c...
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review 1: Catherine Alliot is on top form with this book. It's funny and the characters are engaging. I would have given it five stars except for one thing, I think the plot twist towards the end of the book is a bit of a cheat. The story is told in the first person by the heroine, Hatti...
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review 1: It took me ages to read this. Admittedly, there was a 2 week holiday in the middle and as I'd borrowed the book I didn't want to take it with me in case it got damaged. That aside, I really struggled. I found it very slow to get anywhere and I couldn't warm to the main character....
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review 1: A good read, which served it's purpose in bringing me back to the world of reading after struggling along through a book that wasn't grabbing me. It's a humorous tale set in a small English village complete with colourful characters such as odd bob, saintly sue, and passion fuell...
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review 1: This did not fail to disappoint. Was amazed to read one or two negative reviews. Clearly such reviewers either need a humour transplant or else should go off and read something `academically weighty' that's been nominated for the Booker Prize. A Rural Affair is romantic chick lit...