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110th out of 147 books
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44 voters
Goodbye, Jimmy Choo
In this poignant and witty debut, a bohemian and a Gucci-clad socialite form an unlikely friendship after leaving the city.
Paperback, 407 pages
Published
April 12th 2006
by 5 Spot
(first published January 1st 2004)
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Izzy and Maddy are both feeling stuck. Izzy’s husband Marcus is out of work and their marriage is in trouble. Maddy doesn’t know what is going on with her husband, but he has been working late quite a bit and seems distant. To make matters worse, both Izzy and Matty have been forced to live in the English countryside, in a community where they both feel out of place.
When they meet each other at a child’s birthday party the two women feel an instant connection and decide to become friends. Then t...more
When they meet each other at a child’s birthday party the two women feel an instant connection and decide to become friends. Then t...more
Goodbye, Jimmy Choo was Annie Sanders’ first novel but the third I’ve read (after Warnings of Gales and Busy Woman Seeks Wife – both of which I loved). It tells the story of Izzie and Maddy, two women who end up in the countryside but yearn for London life. After a tragedy and a surprise discovery, the girls end up in a whole new direction…
While I enjoyed Goodbye, Jimmy Choo, I don’t think it was as good as Warnings of Gales and Busy Woman Seeks Wife. It took me quite a while to get into the nov...more
While I enjoyed Goodbye, Jimmy Choo, I don’t think it was as good as Warnings of Gales and Busy Woman Seeks Wife. It took me quite a while to get into the nov...more
There's potential here, but it bogs down in lots of telling instead of showing. There's also a lesson here that two authors don't necessarily make the book twice as good; instead, it seems to have led to uneven writing. The bones are good. The name-dropping, however, probably won't hold up over time -- and it certainly didn't translate across the pond. Much of my reading was flipping pages filled with references that meant nothing to me to get on with the plot. I liked seeing Izzy stand up to th...more
This title is more crappy then the book ended up being. Two women who live outside of London (but that is what they have in common ends) end up becoming friends. They have kids about the same age and both dislike the rest of the neighbourhood mothers. One of the women is "glamorous" from London who moves to the country so her husband (who ends up dying, whoops, spoiler!) can start his own business. But because he dies, she is now stuck somewhere she doesn't want to be. And her husband kind of fu...more
‘Goodbye Jimmy Choo’ was the first book written by Annie Sanders [Annie Sanders is actually two people, Annie Ashworth and Meg Sanders] and I am now a big fan. It’s the story of an unlikely friendship which develops being two women, Maddy and Izzie, both of whom find themselves virtually friendless and living in the country having left their former city lives behind them.
Maddy is a very glamorous mother of three with a beautiful house in the country, loving husband and live-in Nanny. She’s used...more
Maddy is a very glamorous mother of three with a beautiful house in the country, loving husband and live-in Nanny. She’s used...more
Mar 26, 2009
Jennifer
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2 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who is currently wearing a pair of Jimmy Choo's
Shelves:
read-2009
Somewhere in this rather rambling, brand-name-dropping novel (though most of the brands were British ones I didn't know) lies the bones of a good solid story. Maddie and Izzie, two very different women, both forced to move to the country by their spouses, find friendship initially through their longing for London. However, a tragedy brings them closer together and an old recipe book in French belonging to one of Maddie's long dead relatives gives them the idea of starting a small cosmetics busin...more
I liked this book. A tad more substantive than a "beach read" but yet not a book you had to THINK through. Tough topics made a little lighter with the glow of friendship. I will say there were a few pages where it dragged but I still needed to know how things would come a completion so it compelled me to finish. A good overall story --- who doesn't enjoy strong women getting stronger together?!
Maddie and Izzie are both housewives new to the country lifestyle when they move to small town Ringford. Being a self-described “free spirit” Izzie has a little bit of an easier time of it. For Maddie the move is made almost unbearable when her husband unexpectedly dies leaving her not only alone, but facing a mountain of debt she knew nothing about.
A good story always involves a little bit of happenstance. In this case it is the discovery of a secret skin cream recipe in an old book belonging t...more
A good story always involves a little bit of happenstance. In this case it is the discovery of a secret skin cream recipe in an old book belonging t...more
I feel terrible admitting how much I enjoyed this. A mindless and fun read. I love cosmetics and beauty and this basically dealt with two women creating their own brand and rise and fall of that.
I liked this book... a bit Pollyanna-ish, but isn't that what we want from chick lit? Actually, this book does deal with some tough subjects, but they are dealt with in a way that is still fun to read.
Meh. Remember the Carnival cruise ship, Triumph, that was stranded in the Gulf of Mexico for 4 days? I was on that ship. Four days with no potties, no electricity. I did have Goodbye, Jimmy Choo. I will say that considering the circumstances, this was a somewhat enjoyable distraction. However....if I had been on a cruise that was not stranded, this book would not have kept my attention. There's nothing "wrong" with this book, except that it is VERY predictable. There's a little twist towards the...more
I had a really hard time buying the premise of the whole story: mutual girl crush, tragedy, helpful new friend I could buy. The two of them starting a company from scratch and selling it a year later for what lead the reader to be millions? Nope. Never could suspend my disbelief with how fast that all happened. And was the story about these two women, or Izzy and her husband? We were supposed to not like the husband, but I couldn't help but feel irritated at Izzy for her complete lack of insight...more
Total chick-lit book. Set in the English countryside, two women, new to the village, become fast friends and then business partners. Throw in some tragedy and marital problems and sprinkle with money issues and voila, you have a book to take on vacation! I enjoyed this light read but thought it got bogged down somewhere in the middle. There were a few too many french phrases thrown in-only knew about half of them- and sometimes I didn't understand some of the dialouge written in english! The aut...more
This is a very easy read but a very interesting one...not your typical "no brainer"....but close!! Very, very enjoyable!
This was a perfect beach read - well paced story of two friends. Think chick lit that is slightly more mature.
Apr 29, 2008
Hannah Flanagan
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
People who like fashion but are torn between that and the country!
Fantastic - put your heart to something and it'll work out.
An fairly enjoyable light read especially because I’m in the midst of final exams and I don’t really feel like reading anything too taxing. The plot was a bit cliche though (spoilt protagonist who is used to getting everything she wants suddenly finds herself having to make her own living after her husbands death). I felt like the authors could have expanded more on the emotions felt by the characters, instead of the petty details of what they fed their children or what they were wearing or how...more
Fun...a good vacation read.
Good chick lit!
A fun, easy read.
The first fluffy read that was also extremely interminable. Seriously--I thought this book was never. going. to. end. It just seemed to go on and on, like Harry Potter when they're finding the corcruxes.
That said, I read it while I was blowdrying my hair and moisturizing in the morning and around 3:00, when I was getting sleepy. It's a fun book, but this makes me think of the previously named chick lit genre that now is full of authors who write fluff but *with substance.* The books end up bein...more
That said, I read it while I was blowdrying my hair and moisturizing in the morning and around 3:00, when I was getting sleepy. It's a fun book, but this makes me think of the previously named chick lit genre that now is full of authors who write fluff but *with substance.* The books end up bein...more
I so was judgeing this by it's cover which is crap but it was actually a really good read. Am getting slightly fed up with chick lit books tho and I've still got a few to get through before I hit any hard reading. They all seem to follow the same plot with different characters. I agreed with whoever said in the book that 'Pop tarts' would be a good name for a girl band. Me and my sisters made up a girl band with that same name when we were younger.
This book had nothing at ALL to do with Jimmy Choo shoes. The title indicates that it's about women who move from the city to the country, and, as country moms, have to give up their stilettos. In reality, it's about two women who start their own business, bond, see each other through crises, and eventually end on a happy, financially solid note. It's a better book than the title indicates, as chick lit goes.
Dec 16, 2009
Michelle
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If you live in London and are thinking about getting out of the rat trap - read this! It's fantastic. I went on holiday on my own to Greece, read this book, came back, quit my job and moved back to Ireland where i now live in a cottage with four chickens and two cats. I wear my polka dot wellies on a daily basis but my jimmy choos are hung up on the curtain pole in my bedroom ... I couldn't get rid of them! :o)
The rating is as chick lit. The first chapter almost drove me off; take every stereotype and relentless brand-naming (I know, I read the title) and ugh. Fortunately though I stuck with it and under the chick there is some lit here - the women work, love, lose, regret, compromise...and are rewarded. Well they were in Austen too right? This book isn't full of luminous prose or unforgettable characters but it is solid.
Although this book was an impulse buy and took me about 25 pages to really get into, I thoroughly enjoyed the stories of these two women that the author intertwined. It is a story of an unlikely friendship, one that made me miss and cherish so many of the fantastic women in my life who I am lucky enough to consider my friends. Tragedy forged these women's friendship and business partnership and it was such a fun read. I will be looking for more books by Annie Sanders in the future for sure!
So...I liked this one well enough.
My only complaint is that I found it to be a bit slow at times. It took me longer to get through this one than what is usual for me.
BUT: I liked the two main characters. They have interesting stories and it is fun going on this journey with them as they develop an unlikely friendship...among many things.
Worth the read.
My only complaint is that I found it to be a bit slow at times. It took me longer to get through this one than what is usual for me.
BUT: I liked the two main characters. They have interesting stories and it is fun going on this journey with them as they develop an unlikely friendship...among many things.
Worth the read.
Jan 02, 2013
Marieanne Fabiano
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This book actually surprised me! It's the story of two unlikely friends - Maddy and Izzie - who start a business that takes them, and the cosmetics world by storm. I was tripped up several times by the British vernacular, but other than that, this book was easy to get into, had likeable characters and was a very, very fast read!
this book was okay at times, chick-lit, of course. i don't read to much chick-lit but find i enjoy it from time to time. but this was a little too long and drawn out. i also didn't like that the problem at the end was wrapped up so quickly. one page it's a crisis and the next, it's solved and forgotten.
This was really decent British chick-lit. The two main characters, who seem to have little in common, are bonded through their shared ambivalence about country life (each had to move due to her husband's job situation). They end up starting a business together and becoming practically inseperable. Their story was inspiring, their friendship was enviable and their diatribes were amusing. A fun, quick read.
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Annie Ashworth and Meg Sanders met at ante–natal classes and bonded as they learnt the benefits of raspberry leaf tea and relaxation breathing. Neither remedy worked but a friendship was born.
Annie's background is in advertising copywriting and journalism. She cut her teeth on a great little magazine called Southside, and put in the journo donkey work at Essentials, editing knitting patterns, and...more
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Annie's background is in advertising copywriting and journalism. She cut her teeth on a great little magazine called Southside, and put in the journo donkey work at Essentials, editing knitting patterns, and...more
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