Customer Reviews
Hilarious! - By: , 09 Nov 2003 
Feeling blue? Need a bit of a giggle? READ this book. It reallly made me laugh out loud. Cheered me up no end. Feel sorry for the reviewer below - where's their sense of humour?
What an Irritating Bore - By: , 27 Oct 2003 
The heroine is the most stupid, whiney, unsympathetic heroine
I came across in a very long time.
With cardboard charachters & a tedious unimaginative plot,
this book is a waste of time.
Superior escapism - By: S. Kerr, 04 May 2003 
I read this book quickly & with considerable relish. It's sheer escapism, yes, but none the worse for that. "Rural Bliss" is the story of Fran, who together with her second husband - apparently a distinct improvement on the earlier model - has fled London for the joys of country living & DIY, & the rather more doubtful joys of commuting to her advertising job. The novel recounts in a high-spirited & occasionallly laugh-out-loud manner the experiences (good, bad & awful) of Fran & her two friends - man-eating city girl Allie & rural estate agent Sam - two women who could hardly be more different but who have their own romantic traumas & dilemmas to contend with.
The ending, I felt, was a little too pat & predictable - par for the course in this kind of romantic comedy, I suppose, where you know that, however unlikely it may seem, everyone simply must end up living happily ever after. But the ending did not, in my view, reallly do justice to a book which managed very well elsewhere without resorting to romantic cliches.
Classy, entertaining stuff nonetheless, & great holiday reading!
A Second Treat from Wakefield - By: , 06 Jan 2003 Wakefield has only improved from her debut in Tuscan Soup. A different cast of characters, but the same witty prose & clever humour. Each sentence is a gem in it's own right.
Buy the hard cover now so you won't have to wait until spring to have a good, hard laugh!
