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| Title | : | The Love Verb |
| Author | : | Jane Green |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 404 pages |
| Published | : | March 3rd 2011 by Penguin (first published June 1st 2010) |
| Categories | : | Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Fiction. Romance |
Jane Green
Paperback | Pages: 404 pages Rating: 3.83 | 16045 Users | 1163 Reviews
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Number one best-seller Jane Green - author of The Beach House and Spellbound - explores changes in relationships when a family member is struck with illness in her heartbreaking novel The Love Verb. Love means being there - through everything. Everyone in Callie's family is busy; her sister is a free-spirited Manhattan chef, her best friend Lila is coping with the vitriol of her new man's ex-wife, and her parents, Walter and Honor, have rich though separate lives. But when Callie discovers the breast cancer she thought she'd beaten has returned, they all find that their lives shift to focus on caring for Callie. 'A beautifully written and intensely sad lesson in what it really means to love someone you know you're going to lose' Daily Telegraph 'Stylish, wickedly insightful . . . family, friends and love is truly, heartwrenchingly tested' Mirror 'A moving account of a family faced with a heartbreaking situation. I defy anyone to get through to the end without crying' Sunday Express Jane Green's internationally best-selling novels, including The Other Woman, Jemima J., Babyville, The Patchwork Marriage (published as Another Piece of My Heart in the USA) Girl Friday (Dune Road), Life Swap (Swapping Lives), Second Chance, Straight Talking, Mr. Maybe, and Bookends, are moving and true to life. The Love Verb is published as Promises to Keep in the USA.
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| Original Title: | Promises to Keep |
| ISBN: | 0141038640 (ISBN13: 9780141038643) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Callie Perry, Steffi Tollemache, Reece Perry, Honor, Walter Tollemache, Lila |
| Setting: | Bedford, New York(United States) Sleepy Hollow, New York(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 16045 Users | 1163 ReviewsCriticism Epithetical Books The Love Verb
One: I really liked seeing a recipe at the end of every chapter.Two: I've picked up this book at Borders, thinking that I should read something different for a change. I had my doubts, since I had always leaned more towards fantasy or action-packed novels. Then, I started reading this book two days ago, and I didn't regret it. It brought me through laughter and tears.The book started with a look at various characters' lives; a peep into their past; an experience of their present. I have to beIt was genuinely heart-breaking,I never cried by reading a book like with this one.The book is wonderfully written and the characters are people you would want to know and can relate to.Would highly recommend
I liked the characters but found the pace a bit off ... it seemed as though it took a long time to get there, to the heart of the book, and once it got there it all got tied up quickly and was over and done with. A bit of a roller coaster without the excitement, if you know what I mean -- anticipation and then you're in it, and then it's over and you're walking away. I also got a bit confused, time-wise. I wasn't sure if the ending happened *rightaway* or if it was a year later. I think it
I have read Jane Green's book, The Beach House and I enjoyed the twisty turning way it melted characters into a story. It was fun reading. However I started this book and by the time I got to the 8th disk, I spent half of the time sobbing. I had to literally force myself to go finish the last 2 disks. I needed to hear the end of the tale. I suppose for anyone who has had a journey with a loved one through cancer, it is a very gut-wrenching experience and this book was just the story of that
Jane Green could be one of my favorite contemporary authors. In fact, I am making that official as of this moment. Her writing embraces the issues and challenges (real and perceived) of relationships and family life, and her discussion of them, through her characters, is often spot on. The description of the self doubting, the aspirations, the juggling of the demands of family and career and self (even when I might not have a lot of empathy for some of the characters) is honest and true to
I loved this book. I laughed and cried numerous times. This is a simple story about family and close friends. It has a recipe at the end of each chapter which was kind of fun. The characters are great and I loved the sisters Callie and Steffie and their family story. If you like a sweet story with some real tear-jerker moments, you cannot go wrong with this read.
Actual Rating: **1/2You know when a book starts out with a happy couple with two happy children living a happy life in the suburbs that there's probably only one direction in which the story will eventually go (clearly foreshadowed in the book's dedication). I was glad to see many characters find their way; others find what they didn't know they wanted. Recipes at the end of every chapter were intriguing; and Fingal, the Scottish deerhound, was endearing. This could easily have ended up as a
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