Find out what Gransnetters think of City of Friends by Joanna Trollope

I do love a good Trollope. I promise to review should I win.

Great! Have had an E mail to say I have won a copy! I am delighted. Thank you GN.

Me too! Looking forward to receiving my copy and getting away from crime for a while!

.....and me, and I don't usually win anything. Thank You GN. Oh dear, I've just started a thick book by Kate Mosse. I'll have to spend less time on here and finish it so that I can read the JT one and keep my side of the bargain!

Just read my email. Thrilled to have won a copy.Thank you GN.I am really looking forward to reading it when it comes.

Have I missed the boat? Would I have got a copy by now if I had been lucky enough? Would it just fall through my letter box, or would I be notified beforehand?

I've won a copy also, I'm pleased to say. I've never read any of her books, so I am looking forward to it.

The normal monthly book club books just arrive through the letter box if you are a successful winner but this was a special one and winners were sent an email.The books have not been sent yet

Oh well! A book hasn't arrived for me so boo hoo!

That might explain why mine hasn't arrived yet!! Thanks in advance though. ?

I have won a copy so I'm thrilled - tell you all about it when I've received it and read it.

I can't wait for mine to arrive!

Hurrah and thank you . Mine arrived today.

I thought I hadn't won, as I didn't receive an email. The book arrived just now, it has cheered me up no end, as it's been a very stressful week. Thank you so much!

My copy has just arrived, thank you. I look forward to reading this, it will make a change to the oodles of crime novels I have read lately.

No email, but the book just plopped through the letterbox today! I look forward to reading it soon.?

Mine also arrived this morning - just after I contacted GNHQ to find out whether it had got lost ! No patience me!

Mine also arrived today.No need to pass mine on to you roses

Thank you. Mine arrived yesterday too. Just started it in bed last night.

Gd, I hope you enjoy the book then you will have a whole new author on your list!

Thank you for my copy which arrived yesterday. I started it last night and was finding it a not unpleasant read until I hit Chapter 2 (Gaby)
"In 1997, the year that Melissa failed to be proposed to by Connor Corbett, Gaby met Quin. Quin, named Quintin for his grandfather, had grown up in the Scottish Borders and lived for his childhood years above his father's drapers shop in Elgin..."

My heart sank. It was like cod or pseudo French or (to those who do not know anything about Scotland )like putting Birmingham on the coast, putting Brighton in the Midlands or Manchester in Sussex.
Don't publishers employ editors any more?
I don't know if I can be bothered to read on. For heaven's sake, how hard is it to check that Elgin is NOT within 200 miles of the Scottish Borders?

I know Maw. I read that part twice just to confirm I hadn't misunderstood. I woke up really early this morning and decided to read it, as I couldn't sleep. I like Joanna Trollope, but it really annoys me when authors don't check their facts.
It is a pleasant and undemanding read, when you don't want to read anything too deep.

I got this book yesterday and only had time to read the first chapter. I was puzzled by the fact that this person was supposed to have been a senior partner in the company she worked for. Is it credible that she would have been made redundant and sent on her way in such an arbitrary and ignominious manner? It didn't sit well with me, but I shall push on.