Running Away from Richard - Chris Manby

Please god, I know I should be asking for something bigger and more important on a global scale like world peaceand an end to disease, famine and war, but all I want right now is for Richard Adams to want me back again. I know I can make him happy and he's the only one who can make me happy enough not to spoil my best friends day. Bring him back to me before tomorrow morning and I will never ask for anything again. I'll believe in you forever. I'll donate all my money to charity. My spare money,' I added quickly. 'I'll stop making jokes about the fish symbol on the back of a car meaning "I ignore the highway code" Lizzie Jordan ...  Read the complete review

I really enjoy Chris Manby's books and the latest one I've read is 'Running Away from Richard' which is a sequel to 'Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life.' I did read 'Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life' not so long ago, but I don't think there is any need to read that one before this, if you don't want to, as this is a story in its own right, and apart from a few of the same characters, the stories don't really overlap. A week before her best friends Mary and Bill get married, Lizzie Jordan gets dumped by her long term boyfriend, Richard. Richard was an artist and the announcement that he was leaving her for a glamour model who had posed for him has rocked Lizzie's world. ...  Read the complete review

I normally avoid girlie type books, preferring to read thrillers. However, while I was on holiday earlier in the year, I ran out of books to read. The hotel had a sort of library where guests can leave any books they have finished, which allows other guests to pick them up and have a read. It was while I was looking through the library that I came across the book Running Away From Richard which is written by Chris Manby. The story follows a girl called Lizzie Jordan who has just been dumped by her boyfriend Richard. This couldn't have come at a worse time for Lizzie as she is due to be the Maid of Honour at her best friend's wedding. The last thing Lizzie wants or ...  Read the complete review

Running Away from Richard is just on of those books where you are torn between feeling sorry for the poor female character who has been harshly dumped by her boyfriend, or thinking that she deserved it because it was already clearly a one-sided relationship! I read this book on the off-chance, after being given it by a friend. The blurb did intrigue me, as a section states: "So how come, just one month later, Lizzie finds herself sharing a cockroach infested house in Venice Beach, working as a waitress in a notorious transvestite bar, and pretending to be the fiancee of one of the hottest directors in Hollywood - a man who just happens to be gay?" I ...  Read the complete review