Advantages: funny, realistic, real journey down memory lane Disadvantages: bit long winded, began to hate the main character
...David Nicholls. His debut novel Starter For 10 is a witty, insightful comedy about university life including that television institution University Challenge.
The year is 1985. Do you remember it? I sort of do. Brian Jackson our narrator and “hero” of the book certainly does. This was the year that the working class lad left behind his widowed Woolie's employee of a mum with his best friends from school Tone and Spencer back in f Southend to seek ... ...ideal woman Alice Harbinson.ha
Starter for Ten has a similar quality to the wonderful “The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets” in the fact that it is time specific and timeless at the same time. I say this as the period of the 1980s is very specific. Nicholl's evokes the era so well in his description of films, fashion, political issues and music. However as I have already mentioned if you have left home to go to university or college you will really warm ...
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Advantages: Quite addictive when you get into it. Disadvantages: Some parts tie up a bit too nicely.
This book took me a while to get into. The first chapter or two is when I decide if I am going to like the book or not, and I was at the stage with this one of wondering whether to keep reading, or to pick another book. I am glad I persisted and kept reading, as it got really addictive once I got into it. The book revolves around three main characters - Ashling, Lisa, and Clodagh - as well as several other characters scattered throughout the book.
... ...woman's magazine for giving out advice to a reader which involves the reader ruining their couch. She applies to a new magazine, 'Colleen', for the post of assistant editor - and gets the job.
It is at Colleen that Ashling meets Lisa, a hard-faced ambitious editor, who has been relocated to Dublin from London - something she is really not happy about as she had hoped to get a job with 'Manhatten' - a publication in New York.
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