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What do you do if you've been married to a man for half your life and out of nowhere he leaves your bed – permanently? When this happens to Jeanie, she's furious and hurt, and determined to confront George, her husband of thirty years. Is he in love with someone else? What did she do wrong? He won't tell her.
The brightest day of her week is Thursday, the day Jeanie takes her granddaughter to the park. There, one day, she meets Ray and his grandson. Ray is kind, easy to talk to, and gorgeous – everything George isn't. She starts to live for Thursdays. But does she have the courage, in the teeth of opposition from all sides, to turn her life upside down for another shot at love?
Thursdays in the Park (fiction)Hilary Boyd (Author)
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A new Mary Wesley for the 21st century has just published her first novel at the respectable age of sixty something.
Thursdays in the Park is a perfectly pitched, fast moving,hugely funny, black comedy and OAP baby boomer romance, with just a hint of granny bodice-ripper.
The opening chapter is quiet and understated, belying the fun and interest that soon follows. The plot is perfectly crafted and its twists and turns, together with Hilary Boyd's mischievous sense of humour and close human observation, steer it firmly away from sentimentality, or what could easily have been just Hills and Boon, into a delightful tale of the idiosyncrasies and insanities of family life, which keeps you guessing till the last page.
Clichéd though it sounds, this book is a real laugh-out-loud page-turner. Brilliant holiday reading.
I look forward to the next Hilary Boyd!
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Jeanie is nearly sixty. Her husband, George, has suddenly decided he wants to move to the country but Jeanie wants to stay in London and continue running her successful health food shop. Their marriage isn't all it might be and George likes to control everything Jeanie does. One Thursday afternoon she meets Ray in the park where he is supervising his grandson, Dylan, on the swings and slides while Jeanie supervises her granddaughter, Ellie. They get on well and Jeanie starts to question the whole basis of her life especially as her family insist on knowing what's best for her.
I really enjoyed this book especially because it features older people rather than perfectly groomed and stick thin twenty something s agonising over a bad hair day. I liked Jeanie herself and could understand her frustration when everyone tried to tell her what was best for. Ray is an interesting character too. I thought the contrasts between the Jeanie and George and their daughter Jeanie and her husband Alex were very well drawn and showed well the different concerns of the different generations.
I thought the plot was good as it wasn't just a simple case of meeting someone else and deciding to break up your family. It really did show how life goes on while an individual is experiencing a crisis and how one person's life changing decision can affect many other people. I liked the way all the characters were changed by the end of the book. The dialogue was very well done and convincing and this is a book which kept me reading because I wanted everything to work out well for all the characters. Hilary Boyd is definitely a writer to look out for if you enjoy novels about older people.
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