Straight Talking - Jane Green

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is a passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don?t Have to die to go to heaven? William Wharton, as taken from ?Straight Talking? 1997. Jane Green has to be one of my favourite authors currently, although I have to admit to reading all her books backwards to the order in which they were published. Last year I discovered her great new novel ?Bookends? and from then I was hooked, reading her other novels ?Jemima J (my personal favourite), ?Mr Maybe? and then this the first ?Straight talking?. Her new novel ?babytalk? has just come out in hardback ...  Read the complete review

Anyone who has previously read any Jane Green will know that her offerings are light-hearted chick lit, easy to read and focusing around a central female character in her early 30s, probably living in London. Straight Talking was her first novel and helped to quickly establish her as one of Britain's favourite writers in this genre. Tasha is a 30 year old single gal, striking and with a successful career. At the start of the book she appears supremely confident, but as we turn the pages we see her dissatisfaction with her life and her unhappiness with being single after splitting up with the man she though was 'the one', Simon. Following the breakup the ...  Read the complete review

Whenever my best friend comes to visit I can guarantee that she will give me a gift of books that she has read just once and wants to palm off on me to make room for more of her impulse book buys. Not that I?m complaining of course, it saves me having to buy them and although I do visit the library regularly I always seem to choose books for the kids to keep them amused. Amongst my new collection of books is Straight Talking by best-selling author Jane Green. . I haven?t read any other works by this author but that will now change after reading this book. Straight Talking tells the story of a 30-year-old woman called Tash who has had her heart ...  Read the complete review

I've read all of Jane Green's novels, and I will continue to enjoy reading them I'm sure. I just found this to be the weakest of the lot so far. It's the story of Tasha, she works in television, and she's the type of woman that tries to change her man, or even worse, she changes herself when she's in a relationship, so much so, that the men go off her, and she ends up alone, again. She has a group of single female friends, who all have different ways of handling men. The exception to the rule in her circle of friends, is a male friend of her ex-boyfriend, named Adam. He's perfect for her, and he's in love with her, but she ...  Read the complete review

As part of my de-cluttering (which I seem to have been doing for months), I am clearing out all of my books. I would normally only read a book once, however I have decided to re-read some of the ones I have lying around before I take them to the charity shop. I do love Jane Green books and chick-lit in general, so I decided to re-read some of hers first. The first one I went for was Straight Talking. Although I'm sure I have read this before, it was a few years ago and I didn't really remember the plot. Now, having read about a quarter of the book, one of my colleagues took it from my desk at work and read part of the last page out loud, because he ...  Read the complete review