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    Getting Over It

    By Anna Maxted

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    Helen Bradshaw isn't exactly living out her dreams. She's a lowly assistant editor at GirlTime magazine, she drives an ancient Toyota, and she has a history of choosing men who fall several thousand feet below acceptable boyfriend standard. Not to mention that she shares an apartment with a scruffy , tactless roommate, her best girlfriends are a little too perfect, and the most affectionate male in her life—her cat, Fatboy—occasionally pees in her underwear draw.

    Then Helen gets the telephone call she least expects: Her father has had a massive heart attack. Initially brushing off his death as merely an interruption in her already chaotic life (they were never very close, after all), Helen is surprised to find everything else starting to crumble around her. Her pushy mother is coming apart at the seams, a close friend might be heading toward tragedy, and, after the tequila incident, it looks as though Tom the vet will be sticking with Dalmatians. Turns out getting over it isn't going to be quite as easy as she thought.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061983764
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    Anna Maxted

    Anna Maxted is a freelance writer and the author of the smash international bestsellers Getting Over It, Running in Heels, and Behaving Like Adults. She lives in London with her husband, author Phil Robinson, and their son.

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    • 4/5
      Well, I don't fall into either the loveit or hateit camp here, but the book was really pretty good and, much more than just a chick-lit. The heroine's father dies in the opening pages of the book, and the story really revolves about the trauma she and her mother have coming to grip with his sudden death. Then it does have the chick-lit relationships frenzy, but some more dark than frivolous. I'm glad I read it.
    • 3/5
      Twenty-something Helen's life is turned upside down when her father dies suddenly and unexpectedly. As Helen, her mother, and her grandmother each try to deal with their grief in their own way, Helen also battles with her thankless job, her string of bad relationships, her boorish roommates, her troublesome cat, and various tiffs with her best gal pals. With all this going on, how will Helen ever survive a year of grief and guilt?I'm not sure what to make of this book. In the beginning, Helen was so incredibly shallow and vapid that I was ready to give up on the book. My need to see books through to the end was stronger than my dislike of Helen, and I found she could redeem herself ... although she often went back to being just as dumb again, at least her motives started being in the right place. And while part of me is ready to write this book of as fluff, there are rather deep subjects covered; in addition to the through-line about grief, there is a side story about domestic violence. While the prose style manages to stay pretty airy throughout, these topics are looked at seriously enough. My big complaint with the book might be more that it seems to ramble and jump about a great deal. Yet somehow, even after 400 pages worth of Helen's various issues, the ending seems a bit abrupt. Overall, it's a pretty entertaining read for when you're looking for something fairly light and quick, but it's not a great work of literature.
    • 4/5
      Helen Bradshaw's father has just died of a heart attack. Helen's selfish mother is falling apart. Helen herself isn't doing too well: unresolved issues about her father, roommate problems, boss from hell, etc. This is chick lit but with a few dark edges that keep it interesting and fun.
    • 3/5
      Picked it up, put it down. Picked it up, put it down. read the blurb. Re-read the blurb. Got it recommended. Saw it recommended to others. Almost returned it to the library unread again. But it was the last one of my books to read in Canberra. it was better than I thought it would be, but I wouldn't have missed it too much either.
    • 4/5
      I have acquired a few by this author, through charity shop buys and swopping. I thought it best to start with her first novel and I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it would be throw-away chick lit. It wasn't. I read the blurb expecting your Bridget Jones type of character and Helen Bradshaw was nothing of the sort. There are parts of the novel were you do have to suspend reality (but isn't that the joy of chick-lit?) but Helen goes through some traumatic events - most of which are identified on the blurb. I enjoyed every aspect of this novel, reading about her job, her family, her boyfriends and her friends. I felt comforted and cosy, just what you want when you want to curl up on the sofa with a glass of wine and some choccies! When I first picked up the book I was worried about how Anna Maxted would fill all those pages with something readable. I was wrong. I sincerely look forward to reading all the others on my shelves, although I hope they don't become formulaic.
    • 4/5
      Maxted writes a little bit like Helen Fielding. The big difference is that Maxted's books are about serious subjects, in this case: the death of a father. The book was very very funny though.
    • 2/5
      Whiney. Not as bad as dome i've read, but still whiney :(
    • 3/5
      The title Getting Over It refers to the death of the heroine's father, I believe. And what I most appreciated with regard to that was the that novel spanned a full year, at which point Helen felt as though she'd only skimmed the surface of her grief. In other words, she hasn't gotten over it. But she has made a conscious decision to move forward. Not that the whole book is about Helen being grief-striken. It's about a gamut of feelings that occur in the year following her father's passing. It's about her relationships with friends, roommates, mother, grand-mother and a special man she meets on the day of her father's funeral who she keeps accidentally pushing out of her life. There were a sprinkling of really clever wordings that made me chuckle and even laugh out loud a few times. And I was really down after reading the portion of the book where one of Helen's good friends is subject to a severely abusive relationship. So the book was successful at evoking emotion. And yet... it somehow didn't fully do it for me. I can't point to anything in particular that I would have wanted added or removed. Perhaps part of the problem for me was that I had quite a bit in common with Helen, like being an only child and having my father die in the past few years, but yet didn't relate to her all that well. She was a quite likeable character but not one that I would crave to meet. I felt like we could run in the same circles but would not likely become good friends.
    • 2/5
      so worthless I don't even remember reading it.
    • 3/5
      Picked it up, put it down. Picked it up, put it down. read the blurb. Re-read the blurb. Got it recommended. Saw it recommended to others. Almost returned it to the library unread again. But it was the last one of my books to read in Canberra. it was better than I thought it would be, but I wouldn't have missed it too much either.
    • 5/5
      Her books have so much depth - love and relate to the characters. Can't wait to find out how the story unfolds but don't want it to end!
    • 2/5
      This book started out promising but quickly disintegrated after chapter 1.

      The narrator was too snarky for me. And the humor was too dark.

      I couldn't get past the middle. Put it this way---I read before going to bed and my goal is to finish one chapter before I turn off the light--I fell asleep before finishing a chapter. I seldom do that.

      I can't wait for my Sarah Strohmeyer books arrive! I ordered them from my local bookstore!
    • 4/5
      I just reread this book, which I remember reading a loving years ago. It's still so funny and touching, but some of the plot seems a bit awkward. If anybody could just sit down and talk to another character for two minutes, everything could have been sorted out SO EASILY! But I guess without that tension, there wouldn't have been a book to read.
    • 1/5
      Dull and whining in tone, think it may be in part autobiographical, which is the only reason I gave it even half a star. Didn't like the heroine and probably won't be reading anything else by this author.