Azur Like It - Wendy Holden

...for summer holiday reading, was Azur Like It by Wendy Holden. A No.1 Best Seller, apparently, with quite an impressive list of positives on the back cover. At 473 pages, I decided that it must be a good'en, so popped it on the counter to take away with me. I usually only read books at night, before falling asleep, so I was a bit concerned that I may take too long to read this before my expiry date. I was right to be worried! The book did not live ...
...was too stupid, and the pages leading up to any action dragged. The story is a tale about a young (indiscernible age but presumed to be in her early to mid twenties) female journalist, who is working on a local rag in Slackmucklethwaite, a northern village. It is called The Mercury, but 'hilariously' is known locally as The Mockery. This same joke continues through the whole book. The blurb says that the young journalist gets caught up in a dark ...

orlando 07.09.2008 · Read full review
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I'd only read one of Wendy Holden's books before (Country Manors) and although lighter than my usual kind of novel I enjoyed it. So when I was looking for books to take to Nice and came across this one in Waterstone's, it seemed the obvious choice. Very much in the style of "Country Manors", it didn't disappoint me; several times I was caught giggling out loud at parts of it. SETTING The story begins in Slackmucklethwaite, a typical Yorkshire mill ...
...to the WI members and the heroine lives with her parents and gran in a semi called Wits' End! It then takes off to the Cote d'Azur, with evocative descriptions of Nice and the surrounding area and in particular the village where the heroine ends up living for a while. Parts of the story involve celebrity spotting at various parties and restaurants in this area, and the contrast between the two places becomes even more apparent while this is going ...

kitchengoddess 03.10.2004 · Read full review
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