Getting Rid of Matthew
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 | Product Details: Paperback 416 pages Release Date: 04 January 2007 Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0141025298 Rating:   Sales Rank: 3281 | | Look for similar books by subject:
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| | Customer Reviews: what goes around... (11 December 2008)who could have thought getting rid of matthew could be such an engrossing and enjoyable read? i lovd this novel from start to finish. having got over the initial man has mistress, leaves wive for mistress, mistress doesnt want him scenario, i loved the book! a mix of emotions all rolled into one, anger, jealousy, joy!, tears, love, hate, and then helen realising she never wanted matthew in the first place, and trying to get him back to his wife and children!! i would highly recommed this book to friends and colleagues! Enjoyable Read (13 November 2008)This was a very enjoyable holiday read, I read another of Jane's books 'Got you back' which was equally as good. Jane's sense of humour and writing style would be loved by anyone who liked 'Teachers' on TV (Channel 4) as she was the producer. I will be reading all of Jane's books. Ok writing...Awful central character... (18 October 2008)No matter how hard I tried, the writing is afterall fairly passable, I just couldn't 'like' this book. The central character, Helen, was just awful. To everyone. At all times. It was completely impossible to sympathise with her in any way. In order for this character to have worked, JF needed to have injected some humour, some wit, into her debut novel... Alas not. I speed-read the last quarter - it was predictable and boring - but as I laid the book down, my overall feeling was disappointment that she had not made best use of 'Helen' and what should have been a great plot. So, as I say, the writing was ok but I would expect better in her subsequent novels. I'm also a little surprised that it ended up on a bestseller list but them's the breaks I suppose... Light-hearted but fun (28 September 2008)Whilst this book will never win any prizes for literary merit, it has to be said that it is an extremely enjoyable and at time funny read. A tale of morals, relationships, slip-ups and farce, it centres around Helen whose lover Matthew finally decides to move in with her after a relationship that has already last four years. Having asked for this time and time again, Helen suddenly realises that she no longer wants to live with Matthew. But how to get rid of him is the problem. There are some very sharp and amusing passages as the plot unfolds and new relationships are forged, whilst others are destroyed. A light book, it does make some serious points and underlying this is the fact that it's simply a very enjoyable book which many people will devour at one or two sittings.. Getting Rid of This Book... as fast as I can! (20 September 2008)People told me I'd love this book, but I didn't. I found it humourless and the characters (particularly the 'heroine', Helen), completely unsympathetic and wooden. The idea is a good one: mistress finally gets what she's been pining for (ie: her man) and decides she doesn't want him after all and in the hands of a better writer (Marian Keyes?), this could have been hilarious and poignant but I just wanted to get to the end so I could read something better! | |
