Sunday Age
All year you've read corporate briefings, legal advice, taxation guides, textbooks, news features, Olympic guides, web pages school reports, instruction manuals and credit-card statements. Over the summer you can leave it all behind and read something for pleasure instead. Here are a few location-specific suggestions to pack in your holiday luggage.
This is the best of this year's chick lit, popular fiction a cut above the massed ranks of Bridget Jones look-alikes. The elements are familiar. The heroine works in the media (at a Dublin glossy called Colleen), and has a troublesome mother and unhappy love life. But Keyes has real comic flair, believable characters and dialogue, and - hurrah - a plot you can't predict from page one.
Publication: Sunday Age (Australia)
Journalist: Michelle Griffen
Date: 10/12/00