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Virtue - Serena Mackesy |
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29/06/08 (153 review reads) |
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Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: Nothing
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 late at the restaurant and events take a sinister turn.
Lady Harriet Moresby is the daughter of the Duke of Belhaven and Godvia Fawcett (who marries into Aristocracy). Her mother is an actress turned charity worker, whom most people adore. Giving much more information away would give away the plot, which I don't want to do; but when the press figure out who she is and where she's working, she is the subject of some adverse publicity, and it goes downhill from there.
Events during the story shows they have to rely on each other and shows them how much they need their best friend.
Incorporated into this novel, is attempted suicide, attempted murder and stalking. In my opinion, it doesn't really fit neatly into the chick lit genre because it's darker than that, which is what kept me hooked to this book. However the cover is very chick lit, it's got a person posing as a cross between a devil and an angel, and the back is just as naff. Also, the blurb at the back does not do this book justice, it doesn't intrigue you so much you have to open the book and start reading. If I was choosing this book in a bookshop, I may not have even given it more than a glance. I borrowed this book off my sister and it was sitting on my bookshelf for ages, I grabbed it as I was leaving the house so I could have something to read on the bus. That was friday morning and it's sunday evening now. That's how long I have been hooked on this book.
Summary: If you don't read it, you'll miss out on something special.
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