To Have and To Hold: A Novel
Written by Jane Green
Narrated by Kate Reading
3.5/5
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When Alice's wealthy-and much coveted-teenage crush, Joe, asks her to marry him, she is prepared to trade in her dream of a cottage filled with children, animals and home-cooked meals for what he has in mind for her: stilettos, blond highlights, and a diet. She tells herself that she's happy to sacrifice for love, especially when every woman in London would like to be in her shoes. But when her cheating Prince Charming is forced to relocate to New York as a result of an indiscretion with a female colleague, Alice feels her life spinning out of control. But soon enough, she finds herself renovating a country house in Connecticut-and in the process rediscovering herself. Friends, fresh air, and her best friend's boyfriend offer her a glimpse of a life-and love-she always wanted. But can she break Joe's spell?
Jane Green
A former feature writer for the Daily Express in the UK, Jane Green took a leap of faith when she left, in 1996, to freelance and work on a novel. Seven months later, there was a bidding war for her first book, Straight Talking, the saga of a single career girl looking for the right man. The novel was a hit in England, and Green was an overnight success. She's since written many bestselling novels including The Beach House, Second Chance, Jemima J, and Tempting Fate. Most weekends see her cooking for a minimum of twenty people in her home in Westport, Connecticut, where she lives with her husband and their blended family. When she is not writing, cooking, filling her house with friends and looking after their animals, she is usually thanking the Lord for caffeine-filled energy drinks.
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Reviews for To Have and To Hold
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Very entertaining
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was an easy and enjoyable read, but really nothing special. Alice was so lame and such a loser, that you had a hard time feeling bad for her. I like Jane Green, but this was not one of her better books.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I've always really like everything else I've read by Jane Green. However, this book just left me cold. It seemed like it just went on forever, going over the same things over and over, how lonely Alice was, what a cad, jerk, philanderer Joe was. I thought the book would never end. I just wanted to shout at Alice "wake up! He's cheating, can't you see that!!"
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5kinda boring at the opening , but quite interesting at the following end
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Largely forgettable, but an enjoyable read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was my first Jane Green book, and I loved it! It's definitely not appropriate for school-aged students as there is mention of sex, drugs, and drinking, but for adults who love romances, Jane Green is your girl! As cliche as it sounds, Green has a way with words. Her description of characters and settings is marvelous, and I fell in love with Alice, the protagonist, almost immediately. Green's characters are very dynamic- I even felt myself feeling sorry for Alice's no-good cheating husband, Joe. Essentially, To Have and To Hold is the story of one woman's quest for happiness and her awakening from a dysfunctional marriage. Joe married Alice because he thought she would be easy to mold into the perfect, doting wife. For many years, Alice played this role well. When one of Joe's affairs causes the couple to have to move from London to New York, however, Alice begins to find herself again. She chooses to live the couple's quaint country house while Joe spends the weekdays in their New York apartment. Alice stops dying her hair and wearing designer clothes, preferring to weed the garden and take long walks with her dog. When Alice's best friend, Emily, and her boyfriend visit for Christmas, however, Alice shares a kiss with Emily's boyfriend, and Alice's safe little world begins to unravel. Alice must decide to whom her heart truly belongs and whether she is willing to throw away her comfortable life with Joe. Did I mention I loved this book?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chick lit at its best. This was a bit of a stop-start book in that it was lent to me a few months before I actually really read it (I did read the prologue a couple of times though...)I'm glad I finally got past the prologue as the only other 'chick lit' author I'd read before was Katie Fforde... a writer I've read so much that I ended up knowing quite a few of her foibles (scrambled eggs in every book!)Jane Green was refreshing, less sickly sweet, more in the way of raw emotions and realism. Spellbound was a page-turner.Some of the secondary characters were a bit two dimensional. They seemed to be there to serve as a springboard to the next bit of emotional action that Alice was put though.Not a book I'd read twice, but I'm very glad I read it a first time
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5readable if a little predictable story of a woman and her husband with a roving eye.