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Emily Barr

Plan B: A gripping and moving novel with shocking twists Hardcover – 15 September 2005

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Emma adores living in Brighton, but she loves Matt more. When he suggests they buy the perfect farmhouse in the south of France, she reluctantly agrees, even though he continues commuting to London while she looks after their daughter and the builders. But France is not the idyll he promised, and when she discovers the true reason he spends half his time in London the foundations on which she s built her life start to crumble

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Publisher : Headline Review; 1st edition (15 September 2005)
Language : English
Hardcover : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0755325400
ISBN-13 : 978-0755325405
Dimensions : 16.1 x 24 x 3 cm

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PLAN B is well written, with enough emotional ups and downs and plot twists to keep you reading until the not-so-bitter end' - Observer

'A compelling story, well told.' - The Sun

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Emily Barr has written columns and travel pieces for the Observer and the Guardian for several years, and her previous novels Backpack and Baggage were critically acclaimed. She lives in the south of France with her husband and two sons.

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Katie85

Emily Barr's older books seem to be her better books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2013

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I have been a fan of Emily Barr's works since I got a free copy of 'Cuban Heels' with a magazine some years ago (infact, 'Cuban Heels' remains one of my favourite books to date). However, some of her more recent books have not been so good (in my view), so I thought I would download one of her pre-Cuban Heels books onto my Kindle and see whether it was just me getting too used to her writing style. Turns out I quite enjoyed it, so maybe it's a case of Barr's older books just simply being better than her more recent books.

The story is told from two perspectives, as is typical from Barr's stories. This time, the story is told by Emma, who is relocating to France with her partner Matt and their daughter Alice, and is also told by Hugo... let's just say you can work out early on how Emma's and Hugo's lives end up coming together. I was thinking "here we go", I mean Barr's stories usually have a twist in them which you can guess at but still come across as powerful once it's officially revealed, but I did guess particularly early on and I thought it would be a boring read from that point, but it surprised me that the twist was made known early on, so the focus became of Emma and Hugo sorting out the mess from the twist. Yes, there are a lot of familiar things about Barr's writing, such as characters dealing with childhood issues and thinking that going abroad solves all the problems, but there is plenty to like about the book.

A good read if you like some of Emily Barr's other stories or if she's an author you were thinking of giving her books a go.

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Kindle Customer Tim Bull

Another enthralling readfrom Emily B.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2019

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This is my third consecutive and unputdownable book full of EB's marvellous imagination and skill in creating a great sense of both place and characters. I'm going to choose another one now, and would love to see this and the others as TV drama series.

Simon Wilkinson

Plan B - Emily Barr

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2014

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If you've never read an Emily Barr novel perhaps you ought to begin. She writes wittily, intelligently and with pace. There are some true nuggets among her paragraphs - when you stumble upon them you will know.
I'm not sure this is her best piece of work but once you are hooked on this author (as you surely will be) you will want to add it to your collection.
It arrived exactly as described and came promptly through the post

Clemency Ballantyne

Emily Barr None!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2014

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I had never heard of Emily Barr until, quite by chance, I stumbled across a copy of "The Perfect Lie" in a local charity shop. As someone who can spend hours in Waterstones I was delighted to find an unfamiliar author and settled back for a happy read. So unexpectedly rewarding did this turn out to be that I have spent the last few weeks working my way through all twelve of Emily Barr's vibrant and colourful novels. In the space of eight weeks I have been taken on what feels like a world voyage through India, China, Thailand, Cuba, Malaysia, Australia, France, Italy and many other countries and have been lucky enough to share in the sights, sounds and smells of these far off places. Could there be any better way to while away the gloom of an English winter aside from those lucky enough to be experiencing these countries for themselves? To focus solely on the travel aspect of Barr's books, however, would be to ignore the sheer addictive brilliance of the gloriously quirky story lines and the gritty portrayal of the plethora of different characters.

Given that I have now completed my Barr-athon, I really must turn my hand to all those tedious jobs around the house which I have been shamefully neglecting but it seems ungrateful to do so without selecting at least one book for review. So, why have I singled out "Plan B" when I loved all twelve stories with an equal passion? Less of a thriller than some of the others, it was probably the most moving of all the books with characters I loved so much that I didn't want it to end. I cannot praise it highly enough.

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Shirley B

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2016

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Still reading this on kindle but enjoying story

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