- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; 1st Edition edition (Jan 26 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0006393276
- ISBN-13: 978-0006393276
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #289,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Canadian journalist McLaren's debut novel is the witty, down-to-earth story of Meredith Moore, a tinseltown toiler whose personal life is anything but perfect. In charge of making sure the placement and number of everything from cigarettes to ice cubes is continuous from scene to scene, Meredith's professional eye for perfection doesn't extend to her personal life. At 35, she is a self-proclaimed disaster area. After a visit to gynecologist Dr. Joe Veil, Meredith decides her biological clock has ticked long enough. After walking off the set of her latest film, Meredith yields to her eccentric poetess mother's pleas and returns to her native London. Joined by her best friend, Mish, Meredith starts work on a new film and sets out to satisfy her maternal pangs by finding a man to father her child. Meredith encounters an alcoholic falconer, a sadistic artist and a mysterious millionaire director as she tries to balance her desire for a child with her yearning for real romance. Despite a potentially clichéd plot, McLaren's writing is crisp and her characters are surprisingly fresh, resulting in a novel that celebrates breaking away from the expected.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
From Booklist
Meredith Moore has always prided herself on her eye for detail. As a continuity supervisor, it's her job to make sure every little detail in each scene of a movie is consistent, down to how much wine is in a character's glass. When a director accuses her of purposefully botching a scene, Meredith storms off the set. The incident coincides with a personal blow: Meredith pays a visit to the gynecologist and learns that at 35, her time to conceive a child is running out. A solution for both pops up when Meredith is offered a job on a film shoot in London. She decides to take the job and find a man to father a baby, no strings attached. Meredith considers an amorous German and the second son of an English lord as potential fathers, but when her handsome gynecologist shows up at the behest of the film's lead actress, Meredith finds herself battling genuine feelings for him. Despite its occasional lack of emotion, McLaren's debut is quirky fun. Kristine Huntley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Yawn. . .,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Continuity Girl (Paperback)
Let's cut to the chase. Ms. McLaren's book is a mess. It drags the reader from one preposterous situation to another without being particularly original or interesting. It seems that, in her effort to convince the reader what a good writer she is (debatable), she forgot to write a good story.It's disappointing. When I saw her cite the assistance of Andrew Pyper in her dedication, I had high hopes. Mr. Pyper has a knack for taking stock genres and infusing them with a literary quality that is ultimately refreshing. Ms. McLaren does not. She does not even try. It's this lack of effort that is most apparent. She relies on the stock plot twists and fairy tale conventions of the genre rather than building on them. To be fair, it's not a horrible read. It's just not a very good one.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
unbelievably bad,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Continuity Girl (Paperback)
Continuity Girl is to literature what Britney Spears is to music: superficial cack!Even in the now predictable genre of "chick-lit", this book disappoints. The characterization is completely flat; the reader never gets a sense of any character as a person with feelings or thoughts, rather they are people who wear certain things, live in certain places and hang out at certain hot-spots. But ultimately it is the sophmoric writing that is so hard to bear - this might get an "A" in Grade 9 creative writing but how it ever got published is a mystery. It's not smart, it's not interesting, it's not even funny. If you're undecided about reading it, I'd strongly urge you not to waste your time.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
It was actually pretty good...if your expectations are managed,
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This review is from: The Continuity Girl (Paperback)
You will enjoy this book IF you don't expect too much. The story is fun, there are some amusing insights and observations (which may mean most to Canadians living in London and/or to 30-something-not-all-married-and-settled women) and it is easy reading. There are too many coincidences to be able to say the plot was well-crafted and the ending is predictable (but it made me feel good so I don't care). Perhaps it was a meta attempt at irony that no continuity girl read the novel and picked out the many inconsistencies (e.g. Meredith's cell phone working in the UK (maybe even on the tube, can't remember exactly), Mich's apparent ability to work in the UK without a permit, etc etc) but in the end it was enjoyable enough to forgive these problems.
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