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|title=Home Truths
|author=Freya North
|buy=No
|borrow=No
|pages=464
|publisher=HarperCollins
|date=March 2006
|isbn=0007180349
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>0007180349</amazonuk>|amazonusaznuk=0007180349|aznus=<amazonus>0007180349</amazonus>
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Freya North was a name that I'd heard, but didn't know much about. I knew that she'd given up studying for her doctorate to write her first novel and I'd great hopes of some intelligent chick-lit. "Home Truths" arrived as a present and I settled down to read it with a degree of excitement.
You won't be surprised to learn that it all works out pretty much as you would have expected. People who don't want babies suddenly change their minds, (excuse for more sex) jobs miraculously appear in the correct locations and everyone's happy. There's some mildly interesting information about prostate cancer and the associated medical tests, but beyond that the book didn't give me anything. There are 464 pages to be got through and I only read to the end in the hope of improvement. It didn't come. A good editor could have reduced the book by half and it might have been a reasonable, if light-weight, read.
Even the cover's insipid. {{amazontext|amazon=0007180349}} {{waterstonestextamazonUStext|waterstonesamazon=52511590007180349}}
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|name=Ursula Connelly
|verb=said
|comment= Fairly accurate, I was dissapointed in this book, thinking it would be similar to Marian Keyes or Celia Ahern, but it took far to long to get anywhere! I had never read any of Freya's books before, and thought it would be light holiday material. It wasn't!
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|name=Beverley Kerry
|verb=said
|comment= Despite the unfavourable review, I gave this book a go and was very pleasantly surprised. I found it very true to life and blackly humourous.
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|name=Beverley Kerry
|verb=said
|comment= I haven't read Home Truths. In all honesty, I read one of Freya's books, her first I think, called Sally and it was so tepid a read that I relegated her authordom to the Barbara Taylor Bradford pile (I realise, of course, that there are people on this planet who cannot live without another turgid tale set in wind-swept wherever from her Bradfordness, but I am not one of them).
I thought the story was dull, the character obviously a carbon etching of Freya herself - I feel most chick-lit authors fall into the trap with their first novel of painting the heroine of the piece as a perfected version of themselves usually looking beautiful with "honeyed complexion" and wearing "caramel cashmere" and no black roots, but I digress... I have no reason to doubt your obvious insight and shall not bother with her latest effort even if I was tempted to read the cover blurb whilst in the airport last week.
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|name=Kyrusha Govender
|verb=said
|comment= hi, this is Kyrusha Govender all the way from South Africa. overall the book was no doubt boring and common.
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