“Decided on some chick-lit for a change, this book comes with praise from Sophie Kinsella and is not too disimilar plot in that a Londonite wife writes about her problems and how she isn't the perfect wife, gets into some tricky situations, triumphs over the bitchy in-laws and wins her husband back from being a workaholic. (Blame London)
This is one of those books where you want to mess with the plot and rewrite it, but you can't change who these characters are - because they are intensely selfish. Our heroine complains that she isn't the perfect wife and her marriage is falling apart so she makes some attempts to paper the cracks, without addressing the foundations, her miscarriage, doesn't ask herself why she puts everything into her job (as a florist) but doesn't spend time working on pleasing her husband, hires cleaners and nannies and starts fantasing about other men as well as getting drunk with her girlfriend. But not to worry, everyone else's marriages are far far worse so that makes it alright! She ends up taking advice from a lady she meets in the park - the makeover thing actually has some good tips - but it isn't quite as funny as Bridget Jones, perhaps I am being unforgiving here, Bridget Jones was somehow endearing, Sadie Drew just blunders into marriage and should know better.
I don't really buy it..but it did make me feel sad for the child and the state of marriage these days, well in London anyway. I think if husbands and wives just talked to each other about stuff and honest about their feelings and duties to each other then they wouldn't be in this mess lol.
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Selina C wrote this review Saturday, February 11, 2012.
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