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The Marrying Game: A Novel
Like Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women, The Marrying Game opens on Christmas Eve, with four sisters at home worrying about money. The setting is present-day England, and the girls' father, an eccentric aristocrat, has just died, leaving the Hasty family so impoverished that they are about to lose their splendid but crumbling house. So the two oldest sisters--R...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
August 1st 2004
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 2002)
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This chick lit has many homages to Jane Austen: the sisters worrying about their marriage prospects after their father died, the family friend besotted with one of the daughters, a sister named Lydia who married a rogue. However, this is not your dignified Austen![return][return]The Hasty name can be traced back into history. However, time has not been kind to the family, and they struggle to make ends meet. The four sisters, Rufa, Nancy, Lydia, and Selena, are still reeling after the unexpected...more
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This book is another really good one from Kate Saunders. It teaches you that when you give up on love and start going after the money, you end up findinf love and sometimes the money as well. Again this was a very funny and yet serious love story of all the Hasty sisters.
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Got absolutely glowing reviews on Amazon from both customers and published authors in the genre. As one reviewer said, "Saunders has Jane Austen's psychological insight and attention to detail, Louisa May Alcott's understanding of family dynamics, and Elinor Lipman's zaniness and saucy irreverence. Yet, Saunders is not just a pale imitation of other novelists. She has her own original voice, and "The Marrying Game" is a wonderful comedy of manners that has a great deal to say ab...more
Surprisingly good. I found it at a thrift store, & I am so glad I took a chance. I thought it would be a throw-away beach read, but I ended up really caring about these characters.
I enjoy a good JA adaptation rolled into chick lit!
Impoverished, beautiful blueblood sisters Rufa and Nancy Hardy decide it's their duty to marry money to save their mother, sisters, and estate from ruin after the suicide of their wastrel father. The text references both Little Women and Jane Austen, and the book has a definite Austen vibe to it -- if Austen had written explicitly about sex, drugs, and gay best friends. Still, even with all that, the story is never predictable: everybody gets their happy ending, but not without effort or learn...more
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Nicely done! I really enjoyed this.
This book is thoroughly enjoyable. On first impressions it could appear a little daunting, at a lengthy 544 pages (paperback version), but as soon as you begin reading you forget this and find yourself transported into pure escapist fantasy. The storyline frequently teeters on the boundary of what is believable, but that only adds to its appeal. If you like your chick lit to be
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These women's wacky lives were an entertaining beach read. Loved the British-ness of the book, but each of the characters needs a little time on the couch with a professional. And why do they worship the dead and philandering Zed.
A modern "Little Women" it says on the cover. Well, it may be set in modern times, but it is still full of all the old clichés. Four sisters have to find at least one rich husband for one of them so that they can save their big grand family house. I gave up after ca. 50 pages (although this was a condensed version and had only 180p. anyway). But I couldn't be bothered to read on - life's too short for those stories.
Rather far-fetched but asininely funny and filled odd situations and fun. A good summer/beach read when you feel like doing nothing, including thinking. It's not profound.
Two sisters decide to marry for money to support their family to save them and their homestead from ruin and creditors in merry old England.
Two sisters decide to marry for money to support their family to save them and their homestead from ruin and creditors in merry old England.
It is described at witty and whimsical. I thought it had a good premise of 4 sisters that decide, under difficult circumstances, they need to marry for money instead of love. Unfortunately I thought it was asinine, but to be fair several people in my book group thought it was a good beach read.
This book teeters at the intersection of romance novel and chick lit. I allow myself to read chick lit, but romance novels go too far. It's mindless fluff but a lot of fun.
Kate Saunders is such an absorbing writer, I couldn't put this down. It also had a much lighter tone than some of her other novels, which I liked.
fun story of four sisters trying to save their family's heritage by playing "the marrying game."
Too many character names to remember, but not bad overall.
Kate Saunders is a must read for chick lit fans!
From "Laura's Library" (thanx Laura)
Definitely needs to be made into a movie ("chic-flick for sure)
Definitely needs to be made into a movie ("chic-flick for sure)
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Kate Saunders (born 1960) is an English author, actress, and journalist. The daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders and his journalist wife Betty (née Smith), Saunders has worked for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She, and Cosmopolitan.
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