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Rating:
Summary: marvellous book but with a poor ending
Review: Jenny and Martha are next-door neighbours and also have children of the same ages and sexes. Jenny is completely besotted with Martha and slowly she becomes her reason for living. The author takes us into the twisted workings of Jenny's mind and makes her peculiar and devious behaviour understandable to us. Each chapter is written alternatively by the two protagonists and the writing is clever and very addictive.

Both characters are completely rounded and three-dimensional and we come to know these two ladies very well. The other neighbours are more shallowly dealt with and the portrayal of Jenny's husband, Graham, makes him almost too good to be true. I don't think many men would put up with this kind of behaviour and still remain loving and supportive.

Unfortunately it had a very unlikely ending which I felt was a let-down. In view of this I gave the book only 4 stars.

Rating:
Summary: marvellous book but with a poor ending
Review: Jenny and Martha are next-door neighbours and also have children of the same ages and sexes. Jenny is completely besotted with Martha and slowly she becomes her reason for living. The author takes us into the twisted workings of Jenny's mind and makes her peculiar and devious behaviour understandable to us. Each chapter is written alternatively by the two protagonists and the writing is clever and very addictive.

Both characters are completely rounded and three-dimensional and we come to know these two ladies very well. The other neighbours are more shallowly dealt with and the portrayal of Jenny's husband, Graham, makes him almost too good to be true. I don't think many men would put up with this kind of behaviour and still remain loving and supportive.

Unfortunately it had a very unlikely ending which I felt was a let-down. In view of this I gave the book only 4 stars.