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    A Girl’s Guide to Kissing Frogs

    By Victoria Clayton

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    A Girl's Guide to Kissing Frogs is a charming, witty book, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Noble and Marian Keyes.

    A girl may have to kiss a lot of frogs before she finds her Prince Charming but Marigold has found herself a real toad. As a principal dancer at the Lenoir Ballet Company, she is on her way to becoming a Prima Ballerina.
    But, when a painful fall sends her limping home to Northumberland to recuperate, Marigold fears that this could mean the end to her dreams. Luckily, her childhood friend, Rafe, who is just as delicious as she remembers him, is ready and waiting to sweep her off her feet. But, is there a handsome stranger waiting in the wings?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateSep 4, 2008
    ISBN9780007279487
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    A Girl’s Guide to Kissing Frogs
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    Victoria Clayton

    Victoria Clayton is married and lives in Northamptonshire. She is the author of many previous novels, including Clouds Among the Stars and Moonshine for HarperCollins.

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    • 5/5
      Marigold, who narrates this story, is a talented and highly ambitious ballet dancer. But, as we learn in the first sentence, she has broken some bones... this leads to her recuperating in her family home in Northumberland, and that's where most of the novel takes place.Supposedly a social comedy, this book touches on some quite deep and controversial issues. There's certainly some humour, and quite a few caricatured people, but the writing is excellent and the main characters realistic and likeable. I found some of the early scenes rather sordid, but that's not uncommon with Victoria Clayton. By the time I was a few chapters in, I could barely put the book down. Plenty of references to literature, music and the world of ballet, and some nicely intertwined subplots. A few surprises, some of which I anticipated, but not all of them. All in all, I enjoyed this book very much.
    • 1/5
      A lot of selfish, unpleasant people have sex with one another. I should have known better - I disposed of another unreadable novel by the same author not that long ago. To Oxfam it goes!
    • 3/5
      Marigold is a promising dancer.But a foot injury sends her back to her parents house - which is not without it's difficulties!The up-side of being back is being back near Rafe, who she has always longed for from afar.Every girls dream seems to have come true, except...
    • 5/5
      21 Mar 2009 - Oxfam shopClayton's novels are always delightful, with this one no exception; her lovely acerbic voice, reminiscent of Barbara Comyns', always lifts her out of the chick-lit canon. The usual scatty heroine, unusual hero, loopy secondary characters and mouldering old houses, mixed with gorgeous descriptions of clothes and food are all here, along with a jolly storyline and lots of atmospheric detail, in this case about the ballet world. Marigold spends the book agonising about putting her dancing before her parents, her love life and, in fact, her self, and is a lovely heroine we can root for as she comes to terms with the richer family her family has always been bound to, her mature feelings for her childhood crush and the injury that causes her to lose her greatest love, dancing, for a while. Add in a delightful and very much alive at the end pet rabbit, and there's a recipe for a lovely, escapist and enoyable read.