Bookends is the fourth novel by Jane Green, whose other titles include, straight talking, Jemima J and Mr Maybe.
In Bookends we meet Cath, our narrator, scatter brained, untidy, a failure in relationships due to her emotional walls built up to prevent her getting hurt and who dreams of leaving her job to set up a cafe come bookshop, and settling down with a genuine man.
Si, is Cath’s best friend in the world, he is as bitchy as the next woman, meticulously tidy, loves clothes and shopping and desperate for a man to settle down with.
Josh and Lucy are married and appear to have the perfect relationship, adoring one another and their ‘devil-spawn’ child Max.
Cath, Si, Josh and Portia all met at University where they were inseparable despite their differing characters. Supporting one another through all the ups and downs that life threw at them. An event was to change the dynamics of the group and Portia disappeared from their lives.
A change comment over dinner, by a mutual friend brings Portia back into the friends lives once again after ten long years.
Cath and Lucy are realising their mutual dream of setting up the coffee shop, Si appears to have met the man of his dreams, and a rather handsome, charming, genuine man is interested in Cath, although she is in denial about this and refuses to see the signs!
Everyone is on tenterhooks about the reappearance of Portia, is she set to devastate their lives once again? Will the friends survive the turmoil that is to ensue?
The characters in this book are as believable as in all Greens previous books, you will love them and hate them, smile with them and cry with them, right until the last page is turned.
This is truly a heart warming and heart rending tale of love, dreams realised, suspicion and surprise. Just as you think you know where Green is taking you, she changes direction.
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After working on her career at a top London advertising agency for the best part of a ... more
decade, Cath yearns to leave and open her own bookshop. Lucy, married to Cath's old Uni buddy, Josh, longs to run a cafe. So when a suitable site comes up, the girls ...
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After working on her career at a top London advertising agency for the best part of a ... more
decade, Cath yearns to leave and open her own bookshop. Lucy, married to Cath's old Uni buddy, Josh, longs to run a cafe. So when a suitable site comes up, the girls ...
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Having worked her way up to the stressful top of a London ad agency, Cath yearns to open ... more
her own book shop. As luck would have it, Lucy, wife of Cath's old uni friend Josh, longs to run a café. Together they find a suitable site and Bookends is born. A...
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Advantages: You get much much more than your moneys worth Disadvantages: Wow! You long for things to be different for the characters, and might wonder if you picked up the wrong book
Advantages: You get much much more than your moneys worth Disadvantages: Wow! You long for things to be different for the characters, and might wonder if you picked up the wrong book
Mar 4th, 2001
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