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This Perfect World (2010)

by Suzanne Bugler(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

023074401X (ISBN13: 9780230744011)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Macmillan Publishing Co.

review 1: Ever heard of the saying what goes around comes around ? This book has plenty of that.This book is about bulling,living the high life,realising what you want from life & helping the one you bullied for so long as a child. Heart warming at times & i really got into the character of Laura. I do feel that maybe Heddy's character could have come out more but this was a great book & hard to put down at times.
review 2: Laura Hamley inhabits a world of suburban bliss, with her perfect husband, her perfect children, and the perfect social storm of friends and hangers-on whirling around her. Heddy Partridge was the stereotypical fat social pariah of the playground, but now she is a patient in a psychiatric hospital. Heddy�s mother, desperate to help her daughter, rea... moreches out to Laura, who rapidly finds herself entangled in the famiy�s problems. This perfect world of hers has little room for guilt, for introspection, or indeed for anyone unfortunate enough not to fit in.[return][return]The premise is good; Laura finds herself increasingly questioning her own lifestyle, as her encounters with the adult Heddy and her family show her that not everyone can build themselves the perfect world in which to live. Her friends seem shallow, their cares insignificant, and the values to which she has always subscribed suddenly hollow. Bugler has come quite close to writing an excellent book, but the whole piece feels inconsistent. I have a lot of questions which remain unanswered; why were Heddy�s mother�s attempts to contact Laura suddenly so impossible to ignore, when Laura herself had been happy to forget her own cruelty towards Heddy for so long? What did Laura�s parents hope to achieve by forcing the girls to be friends, and why is the twist at the end of the novel so trite?[return] [return]An engaging read, but I found the ending rather weak and that cast a shadow over the rest of the book for me. It is something more than chick lit, but only marginally so. The plot is more holey than St Peter�s fishing net. less

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