The Seven Year Itch - Emlyn Rees
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The Seven Year Itch - Emlyn Rees

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The Seven Year Itch - Emlyn Rees

Date: 11/10/12

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Advantages: Great easy to read book, definitely one to get lost in!

Disadvantages: Reading "Come Together" first is recommended

Nothing more to say than, Absolutely superb!

The fab writing couple of Lloyd & Rees are back and have bought Amy and Jack with them. I adore both the main characters and have loved following their lives, separately and together since "Come Together" in 1999. This third instalment takes us seven years on and is told in the signature two-voice style of the authors which makes it incredibly punchy but oh too easy to speed through! It's a raunchy, sexy and hysterically funny read, as well as being quite sobering and very honest.

Whilst Jack questions whether marriage and being a father has stripped him of his "stud" credentials, Amy finds a lack of excitement in the same-old-same-old routine of being a wife and mother. When the feared 7 year itch starts to bother them both, will they scratch? I really couldn't put this down the minute I started, and whilst I may not be a wife or mother I found myself feeling great empathy for Amy as the story unfolds.

That's the secret, I believe, of these two superb authors - you never feel alienated, so even if you haven't personally experienced what they put their characters through, you can totally absorb yourself in the story.

If you still haven't read a Lloyd & Rees title, but love Mike Gayle, Belinda Jones, Jane Green or Jessica Adams, you will love this.

Summary: Great follow on to an old classic and a must read.