Heartswap - Rilegato

Brayfield, Celia

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0316851833 ISBN 13: 9780316851831

Casa editrice: Little, Brown, 2000

Riassunto

A COMEDY ABOUT TWO WOMEN WHO TAKE LOVE TO THE LIMIT

Georgie and Flora are both getting married. Friends who've been separated for three years while Georgie has been working abroad, they meet again a few weeks before their weddings. The right men, the right time -- everything should be perfect. Georgie and Flora claim they're happy -- then admit there is something missing. After a long evening drinking with Flora's former boss, Donna, the problem is identified-- they don't trust their fiances. And, having devised a plan to test their future husbands' loyalty, a tale of seduction, duplicity and fun begins . . .

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Recensione:

Harvest, Getting Home and Sunset--and returns to familiar territory: the perennial battles and misunderstandings between the 21st century sexes. The novel begins with transatlantic e-mails between two old friends discussing their impending marriages, Flora to Dillon, "Financial products design. 6ft 2in. Buns of custard", and Georgie to Felix, a medical researcher investigating the mysteries of "Lightoller's Syndrome". All seems well until their glacial, glamorous former boss Donna suggests that they try to seduce each other's man as a trial of their fidelity and commitment. Against Flora and Georgie's better instincts both find themselves playing the game. To their relief, they find that their initial attempts at seduction are rebuffed but then as Heartswap is at pains to insist, men are never as simple nor as reliable as that. The prose is sometimes lacking in wit and humour, the "guys" are rather stereotypical and the story spirals into increasingly black and rather unexpected territory. However, Brayfield's novel is still a well-observed and acerbic comedy of manners between the sexes in "the economic acropolis of London" at the beginning of the new millennium. (Lucy Snowe, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW)

A raunchy tale of two girls who put love on the line to fulfil a dangerous drink-induced bet that each can seduce the other's fiancee as a true test of his love. (MARIE CLAIRE)

Descrizione del libro:

A deliciously sharp novel of love, marriage and duplicity from the bestselling author of GETTING HOME and SUNSET

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• Editore: Little, Brown
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0316851833
• ISBN 13: 9780316851831
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256