West End Girls - Jenny Colgan

This is a romance story about two very different sisters moving together to central London together and starting lives there. Readers with sisters may identify with some of the bickering. Although I think it was set up to be a little adventurous (moving to London on their own etc), it doesn't really have anything dramatic enough to qualify. This is primarily to set the scene for the rest of the book and allow the clear setting to start the novel. The book is somewhat realistic and identifiable - siblings who can't be said to get along, from a broken home, bored in dead end jobs. Although how many of us really have Grandmothers who suddenly as us ...  Read the complete review

*****THE SYNOPSIS***** The streets of London are paved with gold ...allegedly. They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites - Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous; Lizzie quiet, thoughtful and, well, definitely not thin. The one trait they do share is a desire to DO something with their lives, and as far as they're concerned, the place to get noticed is London. Out of the blue they discover they have a grandmother living in Chelsea - and when she has to go into hospital, they find themselves flat-sitting on the King's Road. But, as they discover, it's not as easy to become It Girls as they'd imagined, and ...  Read the complete review