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Girls in White Dresses
- Author
- Jennifer Close
- Narrator
- Emily Janice Card
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 8 January 2015
- Run Time
- 8 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Ever feel like everyone but you has their life under control?
Isabella, Mary and Lauren feel like everyone they know has a plan, a good job, and a nice boyfriend.
Isabella, on the other hand, thinks she might hate her own boyfriend, Mary is working so hard she's hoping to get hit by a car just so she can have some time off work and Lauren is dating a man who can't spell her first name.
All three of them have been friends since college, and now - more than ever - they need each other, as they struggle through those thrilling, bewildering, what-on-earth-am-I-doing years when everyone else is getting married and they're just getting drunk.
Critics Review
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A hit in America, this wry and witty novel will pull at your heartstrings as you watch the characters navigate through work crises, romance and their turbulent twenties
Stylist
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One of the funniest books I have read in ages…sharply and sparely written, it’s a sort of absurdist Sex and the City, but the characters have much less money and are therefore much more real… Warm, witty and compassionate
Daily Mail
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Brilliantly well observed and delivered with deliciously dry wit, this coming-of-age tale charting the fates and fortunes of a group of young New York women became a huge hit Stateside before its publication here. Close paints vividly true portraits of the hateful and wonderful complexities of careers, romance and friendships and the result is funny, insightful and piquant. You’ll nod in agreement, laugh out loud and go out and buy copies for all your friends
Easy Living
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Close’s debut pulls you into the midst of Isabella, Mary and Lauren’s social circle, reminding us that friendship is everything in life. A great first novel, it has a touch of hit TV show Girls about it, and is full of the ‘What am I going to do with my life?’ angst that we can all relate to
Glamour
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An irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel
Marie Claire
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Witty
New York Times
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Funny, moving and true
Guardian
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Close's characters grumble good-naturedly through their friends' weddings and the births of their babies, supporting one another as they stumble through the minefield of rotten jobs and disastrous romances, with the pluck and gimlet eye of Carrie Bradshaw's younger, smarter sisters
Vanity Fair
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If Elizabeth Bennet were post-collegiate, hungover, lovelorn and living on the Upper West Side, she would definitely be rooming with the Girls in White Dresses. This debut is hilarious, warm-hearted and wise, and I couldn't put it down
Holly LeCraw, author of 'The Swimming Pool'
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Close’s cynical humor shines... Close captures that mix of perplexing anticipation, tedium, poor choices, dashed hopes and resilience that characterizes young adulthood
The New York Journal of Books
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Details
- Author
- Jennifer Close
- Narrator
- Emily Janice Card
- Duration
- 8 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 January 2015
- ISBN
- 9781473522435
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: identity / belonging, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Ever feel like everyone but you has their life under control?Isabella, Mary and Lauren feel like everyone they know has a plan, a good job, and a nice boyfriend. Isabella, on the other hand, thinks she might hate her own boyfriend, Mary is working so hard she's hoping to get hit by a car just so she can have some time off work and Lauren is dating a man who can't spell her first name. All three of them have been friends since college, and now - more than ever - they need each other, as they struggle through those thrilling, bewildering, what-on-earth-am-I-doing years when everyone else is getting married and they're just getting drunk.
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