JoAnn G. (bookwoman28) reviewed on 1/8/2006 + 166 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

This is an international bestseller, chick-lit, by the author of "Simply Divine" and "BAd Hair Day". It's the humorous tale of two couples who, separately, leave London for life in the "countryside" - one an unmarried struggling journalist and his girlfriend, a book illustrator, who must buy a delapidated bargain, and the other, a shrewish former actress and her rich but hapless husband who buy the 2nd biggest manor in town. The largest is of course occupied by one of the hilariously intriguing characters that populate the town - a reclusive rock star. Throw in a local theatre group, a gruff farmer, a joke-cracking bartender, a nosy postman, a hippie couple with a tribe of unruly children, and a sweet elderly neighbor who has matchmaking ideas of her own - well, you get the picture. It's light reading, but well done, and you WILL smile at the images invoked.

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