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Original Title: | Promises to Keep |
ISBN: | 0141038640 (ISBN13: 9780141038643) |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Callie Perry, Steffi Tollemache, Reece Perry, Honor, Walter Tollemache, Lila |
Setting: | Bedford, New York(United States) Sleepy Hollow, New York(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
Jane Green
Paperback | Pages: 404 pages Rating: 3.83 | 16045 Users | 1163 Reviews
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Title | : | The Love Verb |
Author | : | Jane Green |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 404 pages |
Published | : | March 3rd 2011 by Penguin (first published June 1st 2010) |
Categories | : | Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Fiction. Romance |
Narration As Books The Love Verb
Number one best-seller Jane Green - author of The Beach House and Spellbound - explores changes in relationships when a family member is struck with illness in her heartbreaking novel The Love Verb.Love means being there - through everything.
Everyone in Callie's family is busy; her sister is a free-spirited Manhattan chef, her best friend Lila is coping with the vitriol of her new man's ex-wife, and her parents, Walter and Honor, have rich though separate lives. But when Callie discovers the breast cancer she thought she'd beaten has returned, they all find that their lives shift to focus on caring for Callie.
'A beautifully written and intensely sad lesson in what it really means to love someone you know you're going to lose' Daily Telegraph
'Stylish, wickedly insightful . . . family, friends and love is truly, heartwrenchingly tested' Mirror
'A moving account of a family faced with a heartbreaking situation. I defy anyone to get through to the end without crying' Sunday Express
Jane Green's internationally best-selling novels, including The Other Woman, Jemima J., Babyville, The Patchwork Marriage (published as Another Piece of My Heart in the USA) Girl Friday (Dune Road), Life Swap (Swapping Lives), Second Chance, Straight Talking, Mr. Maybe, and Bookends, are moving and true to life. The Love Verb is published as Promises to Keep in the USA.
Rating Of Books The Love Verb
Ratings: 3.83 From 16045 Users | 1163 ReviewsNotice Of Books The Love Verb
I liked the characters but found the pace a bit off ... it seemed as though it took a long time to get there, to the heart of the book, and once it got there it all got tied up quickly and was over and done with. A bit of a roller coaster without the excitement, if you know what I mean -- anticipation and then you're in it, and then it's over and you're walking away. I also got a bit confused, time-wise. I wasn't sure if the ending happened *rightaway* or if it was a year later. I think itThis is a touching and well-written novel. I would give it four stars except for the irritating fact that the author got cutesy and used an irritating gimmick. Every chapter has a reference to food in it, and at the end of that chapter there's a recipe for that culinary delight. I found it impossible to invest myself in the story when I was being jolted out of it over and over again by being hit in the face with a recipe.It would have been one thing if this were a humorous, light-hearted read,
Loved this Jane Green read; really got all caught up in the family members, and their lives. Jane Green does not disappoint. Some heartbreak in this one for sure. Thank you, JG!
What a book! I won't lie and say that I'm trying to stop crying. Quite the tearjerker and what a wonderful story! I won't tell you why i'm crying but, you should read this book then go hold your family an tell them you love them. Love that every chapter ended with a recipie. Maybe I'll be domestic and make something.
Actual Rating: **1/2You know when a book starts out with a happy couple with two happy children living a happy life in the suburbs that there's probably only one direction in which the story will eventually go (clearly foreshadowed in the book's dedication). I was glad to see many characters find their way; others find what they didn't know they wanted. Recipes at the end of every chapter were intriguing; and Fingal, the Scottish deerhound, was endearing. This could easily have ended up as a
Started out as perfectly serviceable chick-lit, then lost its way in a mess of too-many points of view and verb tenses all over the place. By the end, I really just didn't care what happened to any of the characters - except Fingal; I liked him.
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