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Review by Chrissi (010402) Rating (7/10) Review
by Chrissi The plot of this surrounds three women, Hallie, PR woman and doormat, Nina, trying to be a country dweller and hating it, and Cass, recently returned from America after a disastrous experience with men. It takes this book ages to get anywhere with the plots or characters of these women, and I have to say that I got a bit hacked off in the opening pages, because I thought that it was rambling all over the shop except the story. It gets its title from the first heady days of the New Labour administration, before we realised that they were all politicians, and all as bad as each other. (I have my own personal theory that anyone wanting to be an elected politician should not be allowed to run on principal. We should elect people without their knowledge, because we feel that they would be good at it, and force them to hold office for a period, and before they go mad or develop delusions of grandeur, we should humanely shoot them - be best for us all in the long run!) Cass finds herself knowing about a scandal involving the love life of the MP that she works for, and she and the other two set out to prevent an unsuitable person from taking an office that they would be unsuited to. Unfortunately this takes only the last third of the book. Just
one point - in both books there is a woman called Annalisa, who
is a petite brunette with the predatory instincts and the sexual
morals of a tomcat - I have to wonder whether this is a coincidence,
and if this person is based on someone that the author knows -
revenge in print maybe? |
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