Where Rainbows End

Rainbows Readers of the best selling 'P.S. I Love You' will not be disappointed by this book. Cecelia Ahern's second novel tells the story of Rosie and Alex, childhood friends who - through a variety of twists - miss actually getting together, yet stay friends despite everything that life throws at them.

Now, ten pages or so into this book, I did have a 'yikes!' moment. This is not a conventionally written story with nice neat paragraphs. Instead we follow Rosie and Alex via their letters, texts and emails from the age of five and well into adulthood. I feared I would get really ticked off reading this style, but bear with it, because it's really rather good.

During their teens, the young couple are separated when Alex leaves Ireland for the US, never to return for more than a few days. Just as Rosie is going to join him, her life is irreversibly changed and she is forced to stay in Ireland.

Much of the novel is a charming 'what if' story. The strength of Rosie and Alex's friendship is mingled with a catalogue of lost opportunities and misunderstandings as each wonders if they have made the wrong life choices. The prose is funny, the events funnier still, as we read the emails that take us through Rosie's accidental teenage pregnancy to Alex graduating medical school and the birth of his own children, before they are presented with an opportunity that may be their last chance of happinessâ€¦

Will they take it? You'll have to read it and see. [Camilla Chafer]

Where Rainbows End - Cecelia Ahern (Â£3.99)

If you liked this, you might like P.S I Love You by Cecelia Ahern or Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot.

Mandy

I honestly thought this book was utter drivel. She has all the writing talent of a 10 year old in my opinion. I am surprised that people like this book, I lent it to a friend and she got about half way through and quit. Oh well, to each his/her own, but I genuinely think its a load of absolute pants, its actually squirm inducingly awful.