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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. gelezen als bookazine (  ) ikhoudvanboeken | Jun 9, 2009 |  This was my first Jane Green book, and I loved it! It's definitely not appropriate for school-aged students as there is mention of sex, drugs, and drinking, but for adults who love romances, Jane Green is your girl! As cliche as it sounds, Green has a way with words. Her description of characters and settings is marvelous, and I fell in love with Alice, the protagonist, almost immediately. Green's characters are very dynamic- I even felt myself feeling sorry for Alice's no-good cheating husband, Joe. Essentially, To Have and To Hold is the story of one woman's quest for happiness and her awakening from a dysfunctional marriage. Joe married Alice because he thought she would be easy to mold into the perfect, doting wife. For many years, Alice played this role well. When one of Joe's affairs causes the couple to have to move from London to New York, however, Alice begins to find herself again. She chooses to live the couple's quaint country house while Joe spends the weekdays in their New York apartment. Alice stops dying her hair and wearing designer clothes, preferring to weed the garden and take long walks with her dog. When Alice's best friend, Emily, and her boyfriend visit for Christmas, however, Alice shares a kiss with Emily's boyfriend, and Alice's safe little world begins to unravel. Alice must decide to whom her heart truly belongs and whether she is willing to throw away her comfortable life with Joe. Did I mention I loved this book? (  ) kellyoliva | Apr 2, 2009 | Alice's husband Joe is a serial philanderer and deep in her heart Alice knows it. Though she sticks with him for several years, when they leave London for New York and she moves into their "country house" in Connecticut she begins to feel that she has an authentic life to lead after all. Entertaining and even a little thought-provoking. (  ) Elishibai | Jan 17, 2009 | Chick lit at its best. This was a bit of a stop-start book in that it was lent to me a few months before I actually really read it (I did read the prologue a couple of times though...) I'm glad I finally got past the prologue as the only other 'chick lit' author I'd read before was Katie Fforde... a writer I've read so much that I ended up knowing quite a few of her foibles (scrambled eggs in every book!) Jane Green was refreshing, less sickly sweet, more in the way of raw emotions and realism. Spellbound was a page-turner. Some of the secondary characters were a bit two dimensional. They seemed to be there to serve as a springboard to the next bit of emotional action that Alice was put though. Not a book I'd read twice, but I'm very glad I read it a first time ( ) sabbiemv | Oct 26, 2008 | It's OK chick lit. Nothing outstanding and the first 50 pages are a bit boring (but it picks up after that). (  ) birdsam0307 | Jun 8, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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