This is the story of Mina, a girl at a Sheffield call centre whose next customer in the queue is Peter, a Cambridge geography don who has crashed h...
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Feb 20, 2009
Violet
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I picked it up thinking it was a romantic book. 2 single parents meet each other, fall in love and everything falls into place again. I love romantic books, books with a lot of mush and the works, so I am actually surprised that I liked this book. I expected the guy and the girl to meet and fall in love or at least fall in love because of incessant online chatting. That didn’t happen and not once did I feel like abandoning the book because nothing was happening where their love life was concern
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Sep 27, 2010
Teresa
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Crossed Wires is a light romance that isn t quite chick lit. It has a lot of what I want in chick lit and none of what annoys me. It s easy to read and has a straightforward plot that you pretty much know is going to end well. It has characters who would obviously be good for each other if they could just find a way to get together. There s just enough dramatic tension to keep you reading and wondering what s going to happen. It s a lovely comfort read. There are perhaps not as many laughs
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Jan 05, 2012
Kat
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Rosy Thornton has written 4 books, and the first of her books I read was the most recent, Tapestry of Love. Having loved that, I went on and brought her other three. This one is very different to the other two I have read so far and is more of your typical ‘chick lit’ with a dash of real life thrown in for good measure. The book introduces us to Mina who is working at the call centre that she doesn’t particularly like, but it pays the bills. Her next caller happens to be Peter who has
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Oct 15, 2010
Goddess
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This book is NOT a mushy romance. There is NO pathetic clichéd fairytale (Mills & Boon) dashing romance content in this whatsoever. Do not read this if you're looking for dramatic passionate or pathetic romance with beautiful women and dashing men.
This book is much more real. I usually avoid books based on single mums as the women seem so needy or its unrealistic with the new man in their life immediately falling in love with her child/ren as well as her. Its hard enough for single w More...
This book is much more real. I usually avoid books based on single mums as the women seem so needy or its unrealistic with the new man in their life immediately falling in love with her child/ren as well as her. Its hard enough for single w More...
Sep 17, 2009
Aerin
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First Line: "Autocare Direct Motor Insurance."
Mina - Wilhemina - is a young, single mother who works at the Sheffield call center for car insurance. Peter is a Cambridge geography professor who's just crashed his car into a tree stump. They're both single, both parents. In America, this would be a definite One Fine Day type of hit. But they're not in America; they're in England. And the class difference between them is palpable, pronounced. Throw in Peter's colorful n More...
Mina - Wilhemina - is a young, single mother who works at the Sheffield call center for car insurance. Peter is a Cambridge geography professor who's just crashed his car into a tree stump. They're both single, both parents. In America, this would be a definite One Fine Day type of hit. But they're not in America; they're in England. And the class difference between them is palpable, pronounced. Throw in Peter's colorful n More...
May 06, 2009
Holly (2 Kids and Tired)
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A real story, about real people. People with families you could understand. People you could possibly know, and certainly, people you would like.
Mina, a young single mother, works each day at a call center for an auto insurance company. Peter, a widowed, single father with twin daughters, teaches at Cambridge University. Their worlds are miles apart, literally and figuratively, but when Peter calls one day with an accident claim, something clicks. The phone wires cross in such a way More...
Mina, a young single mother, works each day at a call center for an auto insurance company. Peter, a widowed, single father with twin daughters, teaches at Cambridge University. Their worlds are miles apart, literally and figuratively, but when Peter calls one day with an accident claim, something clicks. The phone wires cross in such a way More...
Apr 22, 2011
Rebecca
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Crossed Wires is so much deeper than a stereotypical romance novel. I probably wouldn’t have picked it up on the cover alone. But there are so many other issues addressed in the midst of a gentle romance that it doesn’t feel unrealistic. You don’t know how the main characters will get to the happily ever after (and, in fact, the ending is not completely that either).
This modern-day romance is a delightful and a realistic ride. Given that Mina and Peter live more than two hours away fro More...
This modern-day romance is a delightful and a realistic ride. Given that Mina and Peter live more than two hours away fro More...
Sep 21, 2009
Bonnie
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Crossed Wires is a charming, cozy and gentle novel about two single parents whose lives cross by fate through the phone lines of the call center at an auto insurance company. Mina is a single mom of one shy and isolated daughter Sal and works at the call center. Peter is a widow and single dad of twins Cassie and Kim who is struggling with his own loneliness. They live in different villages two hours away from each other and develop a friendship through their phone calls. They share their feelin
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Mar 12, 2011
Zen
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I really wanted to like this, but it got really draggy in the middle for me. I'm not sure it does work for the couple to meet only 70% of the way through the book. No, you know what it is -- it would work if you got to see more of their interaction before, but I feel you mostly get told about their conversations and how important they are to Peter and Mina, and there wasn't any chemistry. So the central romance didn't work for me, though the characters are all quite charming.
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Jul 25, 2009
Harvee
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A book about how a romance slowly develops between Mina, a woman who works at an insurance company call center, and Peter, a Cambridge professor and a widower with two children. In between their finally getting together in person and meeting each other's children, we have detailed accounts of their separate lives.
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A book about how a romance slowly develops between Mina, a woman who works at an insurance company call center, and Peter, a Cambridge professor and a widower with two children. In between their finally getting together in person and meeting each other's children, we have detailed accounts of their separate lives.
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May 06, 2009
mari
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This is the story of Peter, a geography professor in Cambridge and Mina, the insurance agent in Sheffield that handles his claims. They discover a connection between each other that is unexpected that leads to friendship and companionship over the phone with hopes that it will develop into something more.
I am so glad I agreed to read this book. My first by Rosy Thornton but will definitely not be my last. It is such a sweet, quiet romance between two single parents who have never met More...
I am so glad I agreed to read this book. My first by Rosy Thornton but will definitely not be my last. It is such a sweet, quiet romance between two single parents who have never met More...
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Jan 17, 2010
Chloe
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Mina and Peter don’t know each other, but they’re about to strike up an unusual friendship. Mina works in a call centre for a car insurance company and happens to take Peter’s call when he calls to report an accident.
Mina is struck by Peter, and he by her, so when he has to call the centre again and asks for Mina, she starts to think more about Cambridge Don Peter. The pair strike up a telephone friendship, finding out they have more in common than they originally thought and getting More...
Mina is struck by Peter, and he by her, so when he has to call the centre again and asks for Mina, she starts to think more about Cambridge Don Peter. The pair strike up a telephone friendship, finding out they have more in common than they originally thought and getting More...
Feb 28, 2011
Annie
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This is yet another lovely book by Rosy Thornton, a simple little tale, beautifully told, of two struggling single parents who strike up an unexpected long-distance friendship. She writes really gently and beautifully, giving you an overall sense of comfort and domesticity while handling some quite difficult issues like those faced by the traveller community, and loneliness and companionship in its many guises (Peter has a lovely gay pair of male friends that I'd rather like for my friends too.
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Aug 07, 2011
Amanda
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Mina is a 27-yr-old single mom caring for her 10-yr-old bookworm daughter and her (Mina’s) 17-yr-old juvenile delinquent sister. She works at an auto insurance call center, and hasn’t thought about romance in a long time. Peter is also a single parent, taking care of 9-yr-old twins with the on-and-off help of some neighbors and his broke research student. When Peter gets into a couple accidents late in the summer, he calls up Mina’s insurance agency for help. Neither of them expect that in the n
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Mar 31, 2009
Phillipa
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My favourite of Rosy Thornton's three novels so far. This warm and engaging story focuses on the unfolding of an unusual 'romance. As ever, the nuances of character and the interplay of relationships between the characters are delicately and subtly handled. The story is totally believable - these people must surely, really exist... The cast of supporting characters is beautifully realised. A book to read many times and savour.
Feb 02, 2012
Melanie
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A bit bland, no real connection between the two main characters. Slightly dissapointed with it, the ending was abrupt, felt as if the author just got fed up and decided to tie up all the loose ends in a messy way and then sign off.
Nov 28, 2009
Erin
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I found this to be an entertaining story that progressed in an unexpected manner. I love Brit Lit. It's always interesting to me just how different our "cousins across the pond" really are.
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Aug 02, 2009
Debbie (Readerbuzz)
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It’s a romance and I’m always a sap for a romance. It’s an unlikely romance. How many people meet when one calls into the insurance helpline?
Nice plot. Nice characters. Nice dialogue.
A nice summer read.
Nice plot. Nice characters. Nice dialogue.
A nice summer read.
Sep 06, 2011
Dee
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This book intrigued me (and I needed a book with the word Crossed in the title) but I just couldn't get into it...I started it over a week ago and still sitting at 50% read, so its going on the started not finished shelf for now
Feb 05, 2009
Debra
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