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Love In Another Town

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Barbara Taylor Bradford's "Love in Another Town" is a lightweight little book to read on a breezy summer afternoon, lying in the hammock. Her story unfolds smoothly, effortlessly, with apt descriptions of people and places; she has a sure touch with realistic dialogue, and a sure knowledge into her characters' hearts.

She swings into the supernatural with the account of a life-changing near-death experience of one of the women. All ends
well as people grow through misfortune, make their choices, find
authentic love and happiness.

Recommended for a couple of carefree summer hours under a big shade tree---lemonade would be good too!

This book was really lame. It is riddled with cliches and it is shorter then a young adult novel. Total waste of time. The Lifetime movie was much better, so you know how bad this really was.

I am a BTB fan but I feel this book was rather basic for her. I liked the story and there were many points that really made me thing and gave me hope for the future. I was disappointed in the length though and wished the story had continued. Overall a good read.

I like a good easy read, but I would still like to read something I can enjoy, and get something from.....other than a stomach ache.
Bradford's story reeks with cliche's, predicatability, and obvious dilema's. Not the worst book of this genre I've ever read...but quickly spun, and too easy.

This novel had a very timely twist to it which made it a real page turner. It was much too short and I wanted to know more about some of the characters that were brought up such as Samantha -- what ever happened to her? Overall I enjoyed every page of the book and can't wait to read more of this author's works. This book was not cluttered with lots of characters and made for a quick and easy read!! Thoroughly enjoyable!

I'd never read any BTB, so decided to give this one a try. Although I scanned through this quite a while ago, I am taking the time to tender these comments, so that others may save their time and money. This book is a perfect example of terrible writing, an improbable plot, two dimensional characters - there is nothing to recommend this piece of fluff. Do all BTB's books have this fairy tale quality? It's a good time killer if you're stuck in an elevator and bored out of your mind...but otherwise, forget it.

This was the first book I have read by Barbara Taylor Bradford and if this is any indication of her style of writing, I probably won't be reading another one. I thought the characters were one-dimensional, the dialog seemed unnatural and the language too simplistic. Even though it wasn't a very long book, I was upset that I wasted my time to read it. I definitely wouldn't recommend spending any money on this.

The book is very over-simplified and the main hero of the story is a jerk!

He has left his wife, who still loves him, basically so he could seek greener pastures. When she becomes seriously ill, he just sort of pats her arm and looks forward to when she will die and not be a burden on his health insurance any more. His new object of desire is not much better - she spits venom at her college-age children for staying with their father in the town where they had grown up. It is way too convenient for the author that the wife dies and clears the way for our hero and heroine to get married, so they don't have to face up to how he ruined his first wife's life.

Add to that a few totally unlikely scenes, like the woman's ex-husband groveling at her to take him back after a few years (that never happens) and the stupid near-death experience, and you have a pretty silly piece of work.

THIS WAS THE FIRST BOOK I HAVE READ OF MS.BARBARA'S. IN THE BEGINNING I COULDN'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN,BUT TOWARDS THE MIDDLE IT GOT A LITTLE DULL.I SORT OF LOST INTEREST,BUT IT GOT BETTER AT THE END. OVER ALL IT WAS A GOOD BOOK AND I PLAN ON READING MORE OF HER BOOKS.

I loved this book because it is a wonderful short story by an author always known for extensive (400+ page) novels. The story is captivating and leaves the reader wanting more! Too bad this was only a short story. It was also a wonderful TV movie!