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Product Description: What if a successful, single Londoner and a comfortable, Connecticut mother of two were to walk in each other’s shoes for a month? Vicky Townsley is the director of Poise! magazine and lives a glamorous London life. She has everything she wants—except marriage, children, and a house in the country. Amber Winslow has a stone mansion in Connecticut, two kids, and a nanny, but she hasn’t found the fulfillment she had expected from being a wife and mother. When she spots an intriguing contest in Poise! Amber impulsively enters, never expecting to be picked.
A must-read for every modern woman who’s ever considered the road not taken, Swapping Lives is a warm and realistic chronicle of two women who do more than wonder if the grass is greener on the other side of the Atlantic.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - One very crucial flaw
I'm a big fan of Jane Green's work but she really missed the mark with this one. Both of the main characters could have died at any point in the story and I wouldn't have cared less.
There was absolutely nothing to like about either of them. Both of them were selfish and self absorbed and both of them did nothing but whine about their perfectly good lives.
Like many successful authors I get the feeling that Jane Green now just throws a few words on paper and counts on the fact that her name on the cover will generate sales. That might work for awhile but eventually readers such as myself will catch on and move on to an author with something to say.
Rating: - fun, quick read
This is the first book of Jane Green's I have read. I find this book largely appealing because I work in the area surrounding the fictional town of Highfield, CT. Green's characterization of the Highfield women, their homes and their lifestyle is spot on.
I do think that the book can be cliche and predictable at times but that's one of the reasons I like it so much. It's a relaxing book which doesn't require you to rack your brain trying to keep up with it. This book is a lighthearted, fun, quick read.
Rating: - Fun to read.
A good chick lit book. Entertaining, but not ground breaking. No original or new ideas. Just fun observations about suburban Connecticut and London.
Rating: - Definitely Fun!
I usually give chick lits a three-star for various reasons; they're easy to read and it doesn't take much mental energy to read them; they're predictable; they're usually the same, where woman meets boy, falls in lust and gets her heart broken or captures her prince; it's always about single women. I love them. I really do. They used to be my secret ... after all, what serious reader wants to admit she reads them? Well, this one does.
And this one really is fun. I am a married housewife with two small children and though my house is not a McMansion and nor do I wear fancy designer duds, I relate to the peer pressure that is among the women here and always worrying about how the kids are coping in school and so on. I don't always miss my single days but I do remember the feeling of freedom on occasion. So this book is fun. It's fun to read about Vicky, the single girl suddenly transformed into the worst of America (those Stepford wives? They are my personal nightmare!), a Stepford wife, without the sex, of course. Then there's Amber, a mom of two young kids and happily married to Richard, who is a Wall Street guru. She misses her single days and thought the swapping would be fun ... what mom hasn't dreamed of leaving the kids and hubby for a few days just to relax and not have to worry about spit-ups or dinners or rushing all over town for errands or heaven forbid, to keep up with the Suzys. (You just have to read this book to understand the Suzy reference.)
So kick back and relax. This book is definitely fun. If you can't swap lives with someone else, this is the next best thing ... ok, to be honest, it's better than the next best thing. Most of us really don't want to leave our kids and hubby, so it's safe to say that it's fun to imagine for a few hours, "what if I did ..."
9/26/08
Rating: - Interesting topic but the book needed more substance
Jane Green is one of my favorite authors, but she spent too much of the book describing the characters lives before they switch places (the swap didn't occur for over 200 pages in the book which is more than halfway!). The lives of the women are interesting yet the time in which they swap needed more substance, more detail. I felt like as soon as they swapped, Green shared a few stories and then they switched back quickly.
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