Virtue - Serena Mackesy

Virtue - Serena Mackesy Virtue tells the story of (Lady) Harriet Moresby and Anna Waters. Both of them have the same problem: saintly mothers. Anna Waters is the daughter of Grace Waters. She feels cast out from her school peers right up until university where she meets Harriet. Her life as a child revolves strictly around timetables to focus her learning, the right food and time planning for the optimum brilliance from her daughter who is 2 years ahead of kids her age at school. As an adult she works in a restaurant which has a school theme with Harriet, although her mother believes she works in a library. Things go swimmingly until she is working ...

Virtue by Serena Mackesy must be the most mismarketed book I?ve ever read. I bought it as an afterthought as there was a buy two get one free offer in WH Smiths. It is a fascinating, complex well written book masquerading as Chick Lit. THOUGHTS ON PICKINIG IT UP IN THE SHOP The book has a bright blue cover with a picture of an Angel/Devil girl. The blurb reads "Saints, Sinners, and the mere mortals in between What do you do you do you need to become a saint these days? Ambition, determination and a good PR. But what o you do when your mother is a Saint and you just want to be human? Anna and Harriet share a burden: hellishly ...

'By the bestselling author of The Temp', proudly boasts the front cover. Hmmm...I'd keep quiet about that, if I were you. The Temp probably gets our vote for worst book written in the last few years. And whoever decided to put that over-used cliché on the back cover ('If you can't be good...') deserves to be shot. Let's move on. Anna and Harriet are both twenty-something. They live together, work together and play together. They have much in common despite having very diffierent backgrounds. The most obvious similarity is that they are both trying, in their own different ways, to escape the reputation and the accompanying ...