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 Playing James - Sarah Mason
 Playing James - Sarah Mason ... Time Warner PaperbacksNewest Review: ... and the nice young reporter. With only days to go to the wedding Holly realises she's been waiting for the same thing... ... more ...
*****MY REVIEW*****
Sarah Mason's debut novel Playing James is one of my favourite debut novels I've read. It's chick-lit but also has something different - a reporter following a detective and writing a diary about it. It was new, it was original and it was brilliant.
Holly Colshannon was hilarious and incredibly clumsy. Who else could trip over a fruit pastille and get hit on the head so many times? The way James and Holly first saw each other proved their wasn't going to be an easy relationship and it proved ...more |
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Playing James - Sarah Mason: Playing James by Sarah Mason (720 words)
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*****THE SYNOPSIS***** Holly Colshannon is a young journalist who thinks her career is about to take a terminal nosedive when she is moved from covering 'pet deaths' for her local Bristol paper and made Crime Correspondent - a poisoned chalice if ever there was one. However, a brilliant idea from the new police PR officer sees Holly shadowing a detective and writing a diary column about his working life. Detective James Sabine is bit of a sour puss - although he does have very nice green eyes - and he's furious that he has been landed with magnificently accident-prone Holly especially since her arrival comes six weeks before his wedding to faultless ... Read the complete review
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