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Cargando... Love in Idleness (2003)por Amanda Craig
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A modern take on Midsummer Night's Dream set in a Tuscan Holiday Villa. Shakespeare did it better! ( ) Most of this book is a lot of fun, especially entertaining for the interplay of characters and relationships, and the stultifying heat that permeates every scene. The magic potion/drunken section towards the end is a tad over-the-top and I rather lost interest in the whole thing at that point. But let's not take it too seriously. Must go and look at A mid-summer night's dream again. If this book was a motor vehicle, it would be a classic motorbike, perfectly tuned and polished, inexplicably coupled to a sidecar full of cack. I liked the early stages, the characterisation, and the interplay between the characters. There were some very witty and wry observations made, particularly concerning the experiences of an American ex-pat in London, and some interesting discourse on the nature of relationships, and contrasting parenting styles. Polly and Theo were particularly fascinating characters, and I also liked Betty the outrageous mother-in-law, and celebrity gardener Guy who was a sort of obnoxious Alan Titchmarsh. Around three-quarters of the way in the Shakespeare parallel stuff started to kick in, and things went seriously pear-shaped with some sexual slapstick that had one character remarking that he thought he had just walked into an Austin Powers movie. I had to check the front cover of the book to make sure I wasn't reading a Wendy Holden. Considering what had gone before, it was totally unbelievable and, well, just a bit silly. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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When Polly and Theo Noble book the Casa Luna, near Cortona, for their summer holiday they plan a civilised Anglo-American house-party with Theo's brother Daniel, Daniel's girlfriend Ellen, and Polly's old schoolfriend Hemani in an idyllic Tuscan setting. Their children Tania and Robbie will have Hemani's son Bron to play with, and Theo's mother, Betty is expected keep her grandchildren under control by force of a personality that can curdle mayonnaise at a hundred paces. Even Ivo Sponge, the notorious journalist with whom Ellen was once entangled, should do little to spoil their pleasure. But the Casa Luna is a place where strange things happen, and anyone who lives there risks unexpected joys and sorrows. As both children and adults find it increasingly difficult to tell what is fantasy and what is reality, the tiny winged creatures who have persuaded Tania to brew a love potion start to take over ... The result is that of the four couples who have begun the holiday together, all have swapped partners by the end (and one has swapped sex of partner!). This is a subtle and delectable comedy of manners about love, lies and the dangers of a strong imagination ... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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