Girl Friday

This book had very believable characters , a good storyline. The whole story was quite believable, how people can be sucked into situations. The outcome was very satisfying.

I know when I pick up a Jane Green book that I can curl up and lose myself in it. I loved the characters.

I love Jane Green and am always excited to buy her book each year. However, along with the majority of reviewers I was quite disappointed with this book.The blurb seemed quite misleading and Tracy who is spoken about doesn't feature as heavily in the book as you would have thought. Her problems doesn't have the impact on everyone you would expect.It is quite hard to review what is wrong with this book without giving away the plot. The last 50 pages seemed to be written really hastily, like Jane Green couldn't be bothered with it anymore. Everything seemed to be building to some sort of big confrontation or a big dramatic scene that just never really came. Characters seemed to have no point to them, I really didn't understand the need for Annabel in anyway. Motivations didn't make sense fo characters. And there was so so much repeating of certain things, like how Kit now loved her space and how Robert had enjoyed writing his book and that it was cathartic. I swear that was written about 5 times!To be fair to the book though, at the time of reading it I couldn't put it down, like with all her other books. I always had to keep reading onto the next chapter, until the end when I got quite fed up at the rubbish ending I'd been given and it suddenly ended so abruptly.Anyway, a good holiday read, but for Jane Green fans, it is not up to her normal standard, don't expect much!

Really enjoyed as I do with all Jane green books. Good holiday read

Jane Green used to be one of my favorite writers. Maybe it is me who has changed and now I need something different. I enjoyed so many of her books that I feel bad writing this.

Jane Green has been writing since 1997 when she released her first book which was 'Straight Talking'. She has since followed that up with the following books:-Jemima J - 1998Mr Maybe - 1999Bookends - 2000Babyville - 2001Spellbound - 2003The Other Woman - 2004Life Swap - 2005Second Chance - 2007Beach House - 2008This current book Girl Friday was published in 2009.This book introduces us to Kit and her children Tory and Buckley living on their own after Kits divorce from her husband of 15 years Adam. Although divorced they still get on well and Kits life is full with her surrogate mother Edie, her friends Tracy and Charlie and her job as an assistant to the famous author Robert McClore. Kits life is going well until her long lost sister turns up as well as a new man in her life. Her life soon starts to unravel when she realises that the people in her life are holding dark secrets that start to come to light as the book goes on.I want to talk briefly about her books in general. I have been reading Jane Green since I picked up a book of hers in a charity shop. Since then I have subsequently reading through her books in sequence. However when I hit Babyville (great read), everything after that seemed to just not hit the mark! Jane Green seems to have completely lost her knack with this book. The story was easy to read, however extremely predictable and to be honest towards the end a little rushed. It feels like she didn't really complete the story and there are no real gritty characters to attach yourself to. The story seems to ramble along with no real substance to it. I almost struggled to review this because the story really didn't have too much impact on me and certainly didn't leave a lasting impression on me. Felt very disappointed after reading this as I have enjoyed some of her earlier books and I am now not so sure that I will rush to pick up another Jane Green!

Not as good as Jane Greens other books, everyone is disjointed in it all out for what they could get.

So easy to read. Loved the twists and turns of the story. Parts of it reminded me how I felt about my own life. Emotional links throughout.