Bachelor Boys (Paperback, Reissue)

Kate Saunders' latest novel should come with a health warning - this is a serious multi-tissue book which succeeds in not just tugging at the heartstrings but stretching them to breaking point, while at the same time making you to laugh out loud through the tears. Devoid of sentimentality but replete with tenderness and compassion, Bachelor Boys is Kate Saunders at her best, weaving a magical tale out of such unlikely topics as terminal illness and thwarted love. Cassie Shaw was the lonely little girl next door, until the vivacious Phoebe Darling took the timid little waif under her wing, drawing her effortlessly into her own family circle. Brought up in a household where demonstrations of affection were unknown, and the key word was control, Cassie soon found herself swept along on a joyful tide of affection, where she was treated as one of the family and quickly became inseparable from Fritz and Ben, Phoebe's beloved sons. Years later, Cassie is settled into a good job, has a respectable boyfriend, a cosy flat and is anticipating making her attachment to Matthew a permanent one. But there is a dark cloud on the horizon. Phoebe is dying and, worried about how her chaotically disorganized sons will cope without her, she turns to her surrogate daughter for help. Cassie's remit is simple - she just has to find suitable wives for the hapless, helpless, lecherous pair, and Phoebe will die happy. Anticipating the worst, Cassie takes up the gauntlet and sets out to become matchmaker of the year- with totally unexpected consequences. (Kirkus UK)

Cassie is nothing if not organised. A successful journalist, she's ticked almost all the boxes: attentive boyfriend, own flat, good job, great friends - it's all fallen into place. In theory, at least. There's one part of Cassie's life, however, which is anything but organised, and that's her love for the Darling family. As the only child of ambitious parents, Cassie spent her childhood abandoned to the somewhat peremptory care of a series of nannies until one day, peeping over the garden wall, she met her next-door neighbours: Fritz and Ben, the boys who became her inseparable childhood friends, Gudrun, their father, and Phoebe Darling, the woman who took Cassie in and transformed her life. But now Phoebe is ill, and when she summons Cassie to ask of her the only favour she's ever requested, Cassie knows she can't say no. But what Phoebe asks is an impossibility: concerned about what will happen to Fritz and Ben after her death, she wants to see them safely married off. Yet entertaining as they were as children, they're terrible as adults. They're utterly charming, ridiculously sexy and completely irresistible, but they're also totally unemployable, hopelessly messy and irretrievably useless. Surely no intelligent woman could be persuaded, once they see past the enticing veneer, to take one of them on for life? But Cassie's determined to grant Phoebe's last wish...

General

Imprint:	Arrow Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2004
Authors:	Kate Saunders
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	400
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-0-09-946781-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Romance > General
LSN:	0-09-946781-X
Barcode:	9780099467816

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