Customer Reviews
Meaningless chick lit with no plot - By: Mr. A. Marsh, 15 Apr 2007 
The only positive thing I can say about this novel is that it is an easy read & its 350 pages can be romped through in a couple of days. They won't be a particuarly interesting couple of days, though. My opinion of this novel is that it is meaningless, banal chick lit with two dimensional characters, documenting the utter, utter banality of their lives. Great if you buy your books from Tescos, but not for someone who is actuallly a fan of good books.
Venus Flaring - By: Kay Sexton, 31 May 2004 
Suzannah Dunn is a master at dissecting the relationships that are closer than 'just friends', those love affairs we have with our oldest friends, the attachments we formed before we were old enough to rationalise our preferences - the friends of our blood & bone. This book is a subtle, elegant & creepily powerful examination of what happens to one such friendship as the two girls, Ornella & Veronica, grow - & change.
I met Suzannah at a writers' workshop before I read her books & went through the awful process of wondering whether I would like the writing as much as I'd liked the writer - I needn't have worried. She is as good a storyteller as Hilary Mantell & her dialogue is absolutely perfect; you'll wonder if she was stood behind you in your teenage years, noting down the things you said & did.
It's a must read book if you like good stories.
wonderful rites of passage drama - By: , 11 May 1999 Suzannah Dunn writes so well about the friendships forged in late teens & the passage to maturity. Her writing far suppasses the marketing consious nostalgia books based on growing up in the seventies. It is a touching account on how friendships change & dissolve when life takes us in different pathways, though we are not entirely sure we are brave enough to let go.
