Bachelor Boys
by Kate Saunders
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Cassie is nothing if not organised. A successful journalist, she's ticked almost all the boxes- attentive boyfriend, own flat, good job, great friends - it's all fallen into place. In theory, at least. There's one part of Cassie's life, however, which is anything but organised, and that's her love for the Darling family. As the only child of ambitious parents, Cassie spent her childhood abandoned to the somewhat peremptory care of a series of nannies until one day, peeping over the garden show more wall, she met her next-door neighbours- Fritz and Ben, the boys who became her inseparable childhood friends, Gudrun, their father, and Phoebe Darling, the woman who took Cassie in and transformed her life. But now Phoebe is ill, and when she summons Cassie to ask of her the only favour she's ever requested, Cassie knows she can't say no. But what Phoebe asks is an impossibility- concerned about what will happen to Fritz and Ben after her death, she wants to see them safely married off. Yet entertaining as they were as children, they're terrible as adults. They're utterly charming, ridiculously sexy and completely irresistible, but they're also totally unemployable, hopelessly messy and irretrievably useless. Surely no intelligent woman could be persuaded, once they see past the enticing veneer, to take one of them on for life? But Cassie's determined to grant Phoebe's last wish... show lessTags
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I must admit that Chick Lit is my secret indulgence (along with Gay Lit). I love books that transport me from my dreary existence (I'm male and gay). Sometimes they do it nobly. Sometimes they do it trashily (Merriam-Webster says it's a word: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trashily). This is somewhere in between. The characters and the prose are distinctly British. The boys are multi-dimensional and go through a transition that you don't usually see the male form do in Chick Lit. Ditto for the heroine. This was a great read. It transcended escapism. If you like Chick Lit and have Anglo-phile leanings then READ THIS BOOK.
Apparently, I've read this book, but even reading the summary I don't remember it at all.
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