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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in a day while up at our cabin in the mountains of Georgia. I thought it was well told and thoughtful in the writing. I certainly don't know how I'd do if shoved out into the world of single-dom again. Harrison has given depth to her characters, letting them evolve and grow. Glimpses of al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41607752">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Goodreads didn't include the version of the paperback book that I read, and that's a shame.  The version of The Starter Marriage shown would have never swayed me to pick it up impulsively with the lame, wispy flowers arranged to form an outlined, cloying heart on a dull, ecru background.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33838734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty chick lit-ish for something in our collection. Very British. School teacher Tess has just been left by her husband for his curvy secretary. Her best friend convinces her to attend a divorce survival class. Adventure ensues. Not always the most believable plot, but it would certainly make for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61545281">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this one up a couple of days ago because it looked light and fluffy and I needed an easy read. I am done with it two days later. It was very good. Very feel-good. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I should have known from the set-up - a therapy class for divorcees - that this was going to be fairly trashy chick-lit, and yep, it was.  I kind of liked our heroine for most of the story, particularly when she stood up to her ex, but most of the other characters were so cardboardy and stilted that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24305163">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had read this before, but didn't remember it.  It was one of those books, where even when you pick it up for the second time, you don't remember the whole plot.  It just came back to me piece by piece.  The story of a suddenly divorced woman and her time in a divorce recovery group.  Leavened by t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49910749">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I stole this book from Katweeble (my sister) on our family trip away and read it on the run up to christmas. It was a great book - I really enjoyed it despite it's slightly depressing subject of Marriage break-ups. What I really liked was all the refernces from places I know in Birmingham- Harborne,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6593618">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started off quite well but in the end I had to put it down because the story took too long to get going.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't care for Harlequin romances, but once in a while I like to read something like this.  A woman finds love after a &quot;starter marriage&quot; doesn't work out.  It's outside my own experience, so I'm sure I learn something about what others' lives are like, which is a lot of the reason to re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11517360">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this one. Like another reviewer- I enjoyed the references to places around Birmingham.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1506999.The_Starter_Marriage"><img src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1184423749s/1506999.jpg" title="The Starter Marriage by Kate Harrison" alt="The Starter Marriage"/></a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[well, it kept me engaged, but not at the edge of my seat.  A bit depressing, it follows a bunch of divorcees through the aftermath.  Of course my favorite parts were when the main character was being a teacher and not a divorcee.  Eh.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really like this book for some reason. I just felt like I couldn't get into it. I may give it a go at a later date, but I really just couldn't get into it like I would have liked. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book didn't do much for me. Perhaps it was because I could not relate; but the chapters seemed very drawn out during their weekly meetings.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I was in the mood to read something a bit more serious, but this was still a fun, well-written book.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bit frothy, but not badly written. The end was a bit too good to be true but that's what you'd expect for the genre.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Couldn't really get into it..I hate to admit that I skipped to the end of it.]]></body>
    
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