Sundowners
by Lesley Lokko
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Take four friends... Rianne: beautiful, wealthy and thoroughly spoilt, she has the world at her feet but is about to risk everything. Gabrielle: intelligent, loyal and always worrying about everyone else, now it's time for her to start looking after No.1. Nathalie: petite, pretty and with a shrewd eye for business, she uses her work to help her forget the one man she can't have. Charmaine: flirty and outrageous, she knows all about the good life. She just needs someone to pay for it... Then show more a chance encounter changes everything - and for Rianne and her friends, nothing is going to be the same again... show lessTags
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This book is a sort-of thinking person's Judith Krantz (in the sense that there is quite some well-researched history included in the plot, and my only experience of Krantz to date has been Lily). It has a semi-autobiograhpical feel to it (check out the author's website) and a remarkable sense of what it's like to live in both London, Johannesburg, Singapore, New York (it certainly described much of my impressions in those places). It is, I would argue, firmly within the chick-lit genre, and yes, I picked it up at the airport because I had nothing to read and it was going to be a long flight (and I liked the cover). But I was surprised at being swept along with the prose, despite the fact that the plot/characters are fairly formulaic. show more If you only ever read chick-lit every-so-ofen, this is a better read than others of the ilk. If you are a true chick-lit fan, this should be on your bookshelf. show less
En underbar bok som jag inte har kunnat lägga ifrån mig. Boken handlar först och främs om vänskap mellan fyra kvinnor som träffas under skoltid och vi får följa det upp till vuxenlivet med allt vad livet innebär, de väljer alla väldigt olika vägar i livet. Det kanske inte låter som någon unik historia men i boken får vi träffa mycket starka och intressanta personer, och tjejernas liv är inte förutsägbar och det är inte boken heler. Den här boken har verkligen allt passion, vänskap, spänning, tragedier och lyx. Jag känner redan saknad över att historien är över för min del.
I love this book, I could read it again and again (and I have!)
My mind wanders back to this book a lot. I think about it more than I thought I would. It really sucked me in to the world of the characters - and made me want to design underwear.
My mind wanders back to this book a lot. I think about it more than I thought I would. It really sucked me in to the world of the characters - and made me want to design underwear.
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- Canonical title*
- Il mondo ai miei piedi
- Original title
- Sundowners
- Original publication date
- 2003
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- 8 — Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish
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