What a wonderful book!
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Sharp, funny and poignant, this is a wonderful novel. Heart rending in a few places (poor Judy!!), it is also life affirming without being sentimental.
It has a few too many secondary characters and plot leaps, but these are minor gripes. Ms Heiney deserves much success with this and her future work.
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Dreary
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Having read the glowing reviews I was looking forward to reading this book. I was totally disappointed by it. All the characters are dreary and one dimensional and I found I couldn't care less what happened to Judy Bishop.
I usually give my old books to a charity shop but this one has gone straight into paper recycling. Don't waste your money!
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Not at all Chick Lit
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What an engrossing read! I could hardly put it down. Funny, sad, horrifying and unnerving by turns. Judy, the central character, is endearing but maddening and you can't wait to see how it all ends. I do hope this is just the first of many by this author. I'd love to read more by her - her style sweeps you along.
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Whatever I was expecting, it wasn't this...
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A story of a woman leading two lives - both of them sinking and dissolving like aspirin into a glass of week-old Lambrini - The Days of Judy B is like nothing I have ever read.
Heiney's genius lies in making the unsuspecting reader think that this is another dull, formulaic block of chick lit (aided and abetted by the slightly misleading dust jacket): and then making you turn around halfway through and wonder when exactly that illusion fell from your eyes.
This book will draw you into its sticky, dark clutches and instead of letting you go, push you out the other side. It's dark, worrying, and most of all, very, very clever. Buy this book: whatever you're looking for, you won't be disappointed. Especially if you're a fan of Ethel Merman...
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Awesome
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I loved it. It's grippingly, disturbingly, thought-provokingly hilarious. Urban and urbane, like Lee Tulloch's 'Fabulous Nobodies', it's a whole new genre.
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