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October 9, 2007 5:40 PM
TUESDAY THREE: Swapping lives
Have you ever looked at someone and wished you had their life? You know, whoever George Clooney’s currently going out with. Or Marian Keyes, who is not only a fantastically talented author and all-round goddess, but also gets to work from her bed. Well, if you have, you’re not the only one - many, many authors have also wondered about it. Here are three!
Another Man's Life by Greg Williams features twin men with very different lives (one is a single, hot-shot rich businessman, the other a stay-at-home-dad ever since he was made unemployed), who decide to swap lives and to find out how the other half lives, if the grass is greener on the other side... and all that jazz.
So they hatch a plan to pretend to be each other for two weeks, during which Tom (the stay-at-home-dad)'s wife will be away and Sean (the single, hot-shot rich businessman) will be off work. Or that's the plan, anyway. What could possibly go wrong?
In Mary Castillo’s Switchcraft, Nely and Aggie - who have been friends for years, but have grown apart since the birth of Nely’s baby - go on a spa break to try and repair their friendship. During their session with a guru, they end up “switched” into each others bodies, where, it turns out, they have to stay for 28 days. There is nothing they can do but try to muddle through living each other’s lives...
Life Swap by Jane Green features Vicky, a single girl in London who dreams of nothing but getting married. Across the pond, Amber apparently has it all – the house, the husband, the kids, the American dream. But neither is happy, both perhaps wanting what the other has. The two strangers swap lives for a month, as a feature for Vicky’s magazine ‘Poise!’, to see if the grass is greener.
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Posted by Keris on October 9, 2007 in Tuesday Three | Permalink
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I take issue with wanting to be like Marian Keys. Nuh-uh. Not a goddess. Distinctly average. I found one of her books only good for throwing across the room.
http://sleepingeyes.blogspot.com/2007/10/youll-be-glad-to-know-im-feeling.html
Just thought I'd share.
Posted by: Jo | October 10, 2007 12:25 PM
She is *so* a goddess! ;) To be fair, The Other Side of the Story is actually her weakest book by quite a long way, I think.
If you can give her another chance (and I really think you should), try Rachel's Holiday (which is the chick lit connoisseur's favourite chick lit book - official!) or Anybody Out There (my favourite).
Posted by: Keris | October 10, 2007 12:28 PM
I started reading "Anybody out there" and that was a load of intolerable nonsense as well. There's just nothing to hold my interest. It's like I can see every plot device and how she's constantly trying to appeal to the chick lit audience with every sentence...it makes me cringe. I know with those kind of books being chick-litty is kind of the point, but I suppose her stuff just doesn't pull me in as some others do. I think she's hugely overrated.
Posted by: Jo | October 10, 2007 1:37 PM
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