Advantages: Interesting read Disadvantages: Infuriating main character
Anyone who has read 4 blondes by Candace Bushnell will recognise Janey Wilcox, the centre character in this story. In 4 blondes, she was working as a model and basically used sex with rich men as a way of paying for her summer vacations. As 4 blondes ends, she’s 27 with a future as a screenplay writer…
This picks up her story at 32, she’s got a major modelling contract, but underneath, she is still the same person. She’s ...
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Advantages: Easy to read, Witty Disadvantages: Far too long for a book on this topic
Much to my surprise, I really enjoyed reading this book. I opened the cover and expected to find a series of shallow (and wholly uninteresting) encounters between people I was likely to deem shallow and wholly uninteresting. Instead, I found the backpage reviewers comment of "Jane Austen with a Martini" to be blindingly appropriate.
This book is a good read for anyone who enjoys traditional women's fiction or indeed, the wry humour of Jane Austen ...
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with Janey, the protagonist of Trading Up, the new novel from Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, is not the M or the A part. It's the W. Here is a rare alphab...
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