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Robyn Sisman (1949–2016)

Auteur van Een weekend in Parijs

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Robyn Sisman was born in Los Angeles, California in 1955. She worked as a secretary at Oxford University Press before becoming an editor there. She later worked at J M Dent, the UK arm of Simon and Schuster, and Hutchinson. Her first novel, Special Relationship, published in 1995. Her other novels toon meer included Just Friends, Perfect Strangers, Weekend in Paris, Summer in the City, A Hollywood Ending, and The Perfect Couple. She died following a battle with cancer on May 20, 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Werken van Robyn Sisman

Een weekend in Parijs (2004) 458 exemplaren
Echte vrienden (2000) 374 exemplaren
Summer in the City (1998) 279 exemplaren
Special Relationship (1995) 132 exemplaren
A Hollywood Ending (2008) 102 exemplaren
Perfect Couple? (2010) 10 exemplaren
Nuits blanches à Manhattan (2005) 1 exemplaar
Endymion Spring 1 exemplaar

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Suzy y Lloyd trabajan en la misma agencia publicitaria. Sin embargo, son unos absolutos desconocidos. No se han visto nunca y apenas han oido hablar el uno del otro. Pero quiza lleguen a descubrir que, a pesar de la distancia que los separa (Nueva York - Londres), no son unos completos extranos... ni tan distintos. Una nueva comedia de la autora de Solamente amigos que se aventura con otra pregunta... Es posible enamorarse de un perfecto desconocido?
 
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Natt90 | 4 andere besprekingen | Mar 28, 2023 |
This is a story about a couple of true misfits: Freya, a career woman in her mid-thirties that just can’t seem to get her act together, and Jack, a best-selling writer who can’t sit down and actually write. Freya keeps trying throughout the book to be some sexy, flirty young thing, at the same time wanting her boyfriend, Michael, to propose and dreading it. She doesn’t know what she wants, and I think that’s something that speaks to every devourer of chick lit. And then there’s Jack – poor, hopeless Jack – who blames the world for his inability to sit down and focus on writing his next novel. Distracted by “teeny-boppers from Planet Bubblegum” and filled with his own self-importance, Jack’s head is too full of himself for any creativity or passion for his novel to fit in there.

Just Friends has a positively delicious blend of sexual tension, almost connections, misunderstandings, sudden realizations, and hurt feelings. Freya and Jack keep coming so close to finding something meaningful, to discovering things about themselves that would help them break free of the traps they’ve built for themselves, but they keep turning away from the truth. I cried for them and my heart broke for them, and in the end Robyn Sisman comes through in true chick-lit style and there’s a happy ending for all.
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ElleyOtter | 7 andere besprekingen | Nov 28, 2017 |
This was an pretty good chick lit novel about two friends doing the friend/more than friends dance. I thought the story was good and held my interest with some unusual sub plots. Freya is certainly hard to warm up to and Jack is a pain in the posterior, but by Tash's wedding I was rooting for and empathizing along with both of them.
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wareagle78 | 7 andere besprekingen | Apr 18, 2014 |
It was really hard to like both the main characters at first and I'm not really sure they got all that much better, but I think we were supposed to become sympathetic. Overall, I liked the book, but the ending was pretty abrupt - ending 2 pages after the protagonists finally get together.
 
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ABShepherd | 5 andere besprekingen | May 15, 2013 |

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