Shaken and Stirred [Paperback]

Colette Caddle (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 531 pages
• Publisher: Poolbeg Press Ltd (November 21, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853719587
• ISBN-13: 978-1853719585
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,934,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am an Irish Novelist, born and bred in Dublin who spends way too much time on social networking sites and not enough writing! Still, there are eleven so far and I do hope you enjoy them.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining women's fiction, November 14, 2006

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This review is from: Shaken and Stirred (Paperback)

When I first started reading this novel, I thought it was going to just another ho-hum "chick lit" type book. The small Dublin office where the majority of the action is set features characters who didn't seem all that appealing on first blush: Douglas, the womanizing self-made man; Pamela, his beautiful-yet-cold wife; Gina, the 20-something who can't seem to get her love life together; Jack, the office jokester; and Mal, the meek subservient to his domineering wife. Happily, author Caddle does a nice job of making each of these individuals more multi-dimensional, partially through allowing them all to have the story's narration told from their point of view. Adding another character to the mix, Susie, serves to add further interest and complexity to the plotline. What seemed initially to be fairly predictable fare turns out to be an extremely engaging novel which rises above the chick lit genre to the level of other bestselling British/Irish authors such as Maeve Binchy or Marian Keyes. Although the title doesn't quite do justice to the story, I would definitely recommend this book and will be looking to read more of Caddle's work in the future.