Getting Rid of Matthew

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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-05-07 19:00:43 Boxid IA40099209 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Aged 14, she decided she wanted to be a lawyer. Consequently she arrived at University College London to study for a law degree and soon realised it was a grave error. Matthew is married to Sophie and they have 2 children. One would think it's a perfect marriage and to Sophie it is. Matthew however has been cheating on Sophie with Helen for 4 years. He finally decides to leave Sophie and live with Helen but now Helen isn't sure she wants him any more. Helen has to figure a way to get Matthew out of her house. She makes friends with Sophie (Sophie has no idea who Helen is) and the fun begins. Here's a brief outline of the plot without giving too much away. Helen is approaching 40 and finds herself in a long-term affair with her boss Matthew, who is married and much older than her.

The book gets more interesting as it goes along with new twists and turns with every bad decision Helen makes. At the end, she gets caught lying and is forced to look at what she really wants and the person she really is. Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here. At the start of the novel, Fallon switches the reader's viewpoint between Helen's life and Matthew's wife Sophie. My problems came when Rebecca decided that, rather than tell her bosses that Lorna was going through big personal issues that kept her from work (the normal way to deal with a work issue), she decides to perform a series of lies and charades to pretend that everything is fine with Lorna's performance. This just wouldn't happen, and I could not suspend my disbelief. At all. I found myself rolling my eyes at the behaviour of many of the characters.We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. Bex, Daniel, Isabel and Alex have been best friends for ever, since jolly college years. Years, marriages and couple children later they are still very close. Nothing seem to break their bond. But let's be clear: Helen is not painted as an innocent woman. She knows her affair is wrong, but while caught up in it the mind works differently: this, to me, felt absolutely real and true to human nature and the way our emotions and minds work. There's such clarity about Helen and Sophie, whose perspectives dominate the narrative (Matthew gets a few bits throughout, but it's largely told from the two women's perspectives). And when Helen "wakes up" to her life, the lies she lives and the damage she's done, she's even more real. How do you get rid of a boyfriend you're no longer interested in, but who seems like they'd fall apart if you tried to break it off? I've certainly experienced that before, and Helen's distaste for Matthew's personal habits once he lives with her, once it becomes "real" rather than an affair, is comical because it's so familiar. Fallon does a fine job of balancing sympathy with "just desserts": Helen does deserve it, after all.

A lot of heavy reading recently, so I took a fem-lit break with Foursome, my second Jane Fallon book. I have listened to this book at least two times and I know I’ll listen to it again and again. I have only ever listened to one other audiobook more than once, and I’ve listened to a large amount of audiobooks in my time, so that should tell you just how well written this book is. Aside from the comedy aspect, the clever turns of phrase used in place of cliches and dry description add so much color to the narrative, even in droughts of dialogue. Fallon dips into smaller characters’ lives as necessary and in details that matter, leaving out anything the reader might not find useful or interesting as well as anything that doesn’t apply to the current situation. In times that delving into a minor character’s past seems unnecessary, just wait – there’s always a reason, soon to follow, that it has been described. Fallon doesn’t waste words. I have rated this book on the level which I enjoyed it rather than the quality of the writing. The writing is actually pretty good - except for the odd glitch where absent characters suddenly speak in conversations - but unfortunately this type of novel isn't my thing. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community.The most engaging of all the characters was Laura. Even though she was evil she had more depth to her and I enjoyed hating her. Determined to learn more about the wife that she took him from, Helen befriends Sophie and heads into dangerous territory, trying to balance her career (where her new live-in, married older boyfriend works), her relationship with Matthew's teenage daughters and her new friend, Sophie, who is sharing intimate details about her marriage with the woman who stole her husband.

What to do if Matthew, your secret lover of the past four years, finally decides to leave his wife Sophie and their two daughters and move into your flat, just when you're thinking that you might not want him anymore . . .Then, after Matthew has left Sophie, Fallon keeps the plot twisting with Helen befriending Sophie, using a false identity. Finally, Helen ends up falling for Matthew's son. Foursome, despite the title, is NOT erotica. The foursome referred to is a group of friends, two couples, who have known each other and been the mainstay of each others social lives for many years. When one of the marriages breaks up (Alex and Isabel), it has far reaching consequences and causing Rebecca to reexamine whether she every really knew them or anyone for that matter. There is another storyline in the book which revolves around Rebecca’s job and her interactions with a co-worker, Lorna. That particular storyline sums up very accurately why women are their own worst enemies as far as professional lives. I have watched these kind of relationships/interactions in places I have worked and it never ends well. I thought that part of the book was very accurately done. Rebecca and Daniel, and Alex and Isabella were two couples who met in university. Their world is turned upside down when, after 20 years, Alex suddenly leaves Isabel and confesses his love for Rebecca. After Rebecca rejects him, Alex ends up dating Rebecca's workplace nemesis, Lorna. EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the success of its record-breaking Netflix film Purple Hearts, Alloy Entertainment has unveiled four new features in development, three of which are based on books that the company has developed in-house.

She's less-than-amused that this has happened and decides to do everything in her power to repel him and make him want to leave her. This includes buying incontinence pads and leaving them about the house, not shaving...anywhere...ever...you get the idea. The first film, Getting Rid of Matthew, based on the bestselling novel by Jane Fallon, follows Helen, who finally gets her wish after years of begging her lover Matthew to leave his wife. And immediately comes to regret it. Hernán Jiménez ( Love Hard, Elsewhere) will direct from his own script. The 2 women stay friends with the truth all out there and I love it!! Helen also talks about maybe restarting her relationship with the son who is actually closer to her age! Recommended to anyone interested in reading a mature, original and ironic take on poorly-thought-out relationships, a drama story without the soap. I can’t say this book is a happy read as the plot is all secrets , broken relationships and friendship going awry .Interesting debut novel from former UK TV Shows' writer of Eastenders and This Life. The premise being 'the other woman' having the cheating husband (Matthew) leave his family for her, just around the same time as she had finally got to a place after 4 years, when she realised she didn't want him! Her primary new goal is... getting rid of Matthew! However, for my own part I must say sorry Jane but I think it may be a fundamental flaw in my personality that if I don't like the people involved then I don't really want them to have a happy ending. In real life good things don't always happen to good people (in my experience they often get dumped on from a great height instead) and bad people often get away with murder but I prefer my fiction to create a nicer world than that- a world where people are rewarded for their actions.