All you need is love (All You Need Is Love - Carole Matthews)

Member Name: MrsE

Product:	All You Need Is Love - Carole Matthews
Date:	10/11/09 (20 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Easy reading

Disadvantages: None

I have read an awful lot of thrillers lately and this was a refreshing change. It's a story about Sally Freeman, a young single out of work mother who lives on a council estate with her son Charlie. Spencer Knight comes along and sweeps her off her feet. He is rich, charming, affectionate and sexy and Sally can't quite believe her luck. However her ex Johnny is still in love with Sally and has to try to win Sally back. As a penniless aspiring painter, who also lives on the estate and cares for his ill mum, he doesn't have a lot of chance.

I am quite a fan of Carole Matthews and this story is no different to my previous opinions of her books. The story is warm and funny and a thoroughly enjoyable read. The characters are a little different to her previously tried and tested formula for leading women and men. However, somehow she seems to have hit the nail on the head and created people that you end up loving or hating in equal measures. I fell in love with Johnny but the story kept me guessing until the end as to which man she would pick.

Carole Matthews writes in an easy style keeping her chapters just the right length which always keeps me interested. It's a refreshing change for the setting of the book. It makes it all the more real to have a lead character that is an out of work single mum living where she does. No there isn't a deep underlying moral to the story, but it is what it is! An enjoyable funny and warm chick lit book that is easy reading. It slightly differs from other books she has written but is done just as well and as always I look forward to her forthcoming novels.

Summary: Lovely warm and funny book