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Talking to Addison
by Jenny Colgan
Holly is a slightly whiny underachiever who shares a London flat with a couple of more successful friends - including a gorgeous, but troubled, computer geek. She pines for the computer geek, while an also geeky physicist pines for her (although one wonders why...).
The book is occasionally amusing, but there’s a viciousness here that I didn’t expect from Jenny Colgan. One character -an agoraphobic woman who finally finds a reason to face her fears - is repeatedly called fat, ugly, and smelly. Americans, musicians, the TV crew, the hospital staff, the shop manager, Holly’s former flatmates...are all skewered in a way that just isn’t really funny.
The book is occasionally amusing, but there’s a viciousness here that I didn’t expect from Jenny Colgan. One character -an agoraphobic woman who finally finds a reason to face her fears - is repeatedly called fat, ugly, and smelly. Americans, musicians, the TV crew, the hospital staff, the shop manager, Holly’s former flatmates...are all skewered in a way that just isn’t really funny.