Notting Hell: A Novel by Rachel Johnson

Notting Hell: A Novel



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Notting Hell: A Novel Rachel Johnson
Language: English
Page: 352
Format: lit
ISBN: 1416532072, 9781416532071
Publisher: Touchstone

From Publishers Weekly

This veddy droll through-the-keyhole debut from British columnist Johnson is drenched in the mores and manners of London's West Village equivalent—plus or minus a few trustafarians and maybe a few titles. Married to an "ecotect" and speeding childlessly toward middle age, Clare is a dilettante who dabbles in feng shui gardening when she isn't keeping an ovulation diary and minding everyone else's business on the back garden shared by her square block. Her frenemy, Mimi, is a 37-year-old freelance journalist who is married to Ralph (a freelance energy consultant and pundit) and Mummy to three posh kids and a dog. As the two alternate first-person chapters, Clare spots a scantily clad neighbor's wife sneaking out of the wrong house in the predawn darkness, while Mimi contemplates relieving her malignant ennui by hopping into bed with their new billionaire bachelor neighbor, Si Kasparian. ("Money is terribly sexy," she notes.) What follows are pages of brand- and name-dropping, boring hesitations and recriminations, untrustworthy billionaire behavior and Clare discovering her husband has taken an opposing side on a contentious garage renovation. Lacking the emotional depth of Anna Maxted and the strategic bling-command of Jackie Collins, this semisatire gets lost somewhere in between. (Apr.)
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Review

"Notting Hell is witty, sharp, outrageous, and cringingly real. I was riveted!" -- Sophie Kinsella, author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and The Undomestic Goddess

"A delicious dip into the absurdly competitive world of a brand-new, rather terrifying British tribe -- the Notting Hill nouveau riche." -- Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes and The Debutante Divorcée

"Gripping . . . a pacy mix of lifestyle envy, sexual intrigue, and good, old-fashioned gossip. A real page-turner that will appeal to those far from Notting Hill itself." -- Easy Living (UK)

"Deliciously witty, wickedly funny, and surprisingly touching. She captures the zeitgeist of a society obsessed with having it all with a heady combination of hilarity and heart. The perfect feel-good read." -- Santa Montefiore, author of Last Voyage of the Valentina and The Gypsy Madonna

"Acerbic and well observed . . . with her magpie eye for local detail and a couple of good cracking jokes per page, Notting Hell is snappy, witty, definitely clever, and hugely readable." -- Nicholas Coleridge, The Spectator (UK)

"A tale of the rich behaving badly in one of London's most exclusive enclaves. Notting Hell is delicious fun." -- Karen Quinn, author of The Ivy Chronicles and Wife in the Fast Lane

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