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The
Girl in Times Square
by Paullina Simons
published by Harper Fiction
price £6.99
If any novel deserves a wider audience, this is it. It’s a story of love – ‘Love Story’ for our generation. But it’s more than that; it’s a novel of the vagaries of chance, betrayal and the possibility of death, but always of hope. It’s one of those books that makes you sit up and think: what do I really know about those who are closest to me? What if everything I thought I knew for sure was a lie? What if every certainty was taken away, and I had to decide what to do in what might be such a short time left to me? Our heroine Lily’s predicament, her ordinary life made extraordinary by one slice of unbelievably good luck followed immediately with the worst possible news, is as compelling as it is thought-provoking. Paullina Simons is a natural storyteller and has proved this by her number one bestsellers in Australia and New Zealand. But she is ripe for discovery in the UK, and has great potential to appeal to reading groups. Her writing is intelligent but accessible, full of topical issues with no easy answers, raising moral questions but not providing obvious solutions. There's never a sense of a message getitng in the way of the story; this is writing straight from the heart. Lily’s trying to find her best friend in the face of suspicion, to stay close to her family as it disintegrates around her, to find her place in a world that seems indifferent, and to find a real relationship against all odds. It’s a story of what it is to be human, and in telling it Paullina Simons makes us all ask that very question of ourselves. You could not find a more satisfying read.
by Paullina Simons
published by Harper Fiction
price £6.99
If any novel deserves a wider audience, this is it. It’s a story of love – ‘Love Story’ for our generation. But it’s more than that; it’s a novel of the vagaries of chance, betrayal and the possibility of death, but always of hope. It’s one of those books that makes you sit up and think: what do I really know about those who are closest to me? What if everything I thought I knew for sure was a lie? What if every certainty was taken away, and I had to decide what to do in what might be such a short time left to me? Our heroine Lily’s predicament, her ordinary life made extraordinary by one slice of unbelievably good luck followed immediately with the worst possible news, is as compelling as it is thought-provoking. Paullina Simons is a natural storyteller and has proved this by her number one bestsellers in Australia and New Zealand. But she is ripe for discovery in the UK, and has great potential to appeal to reading groups. Her writing is intelligent but accessible, full of topical issues with no easy answers, raising moral questions but not providing obvious solutions. There's never a sense of a message getitng in the way of the story; this is writing straight from the heart. Lily’s trying to find her best friend in the face of suspicion, to stay close to her family as it disintegrates around her, to find her place in a world that seems indifferent, and to find a real relationship against all odds. It’s a story of what it is to be human, and in telling it Paullina Simons makes us all ask that very question of ourselves. You could not find a more satisfying read.
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