Title: Cliched - reads like 'The Book of the Movie'
Product review: Honestly I can't imagine what the fuss is about this book. I expected it to have some more emotional depth - if someone had told me that the movie (which I haven't seen yet) had been written first and this was derived from the script I wouldn't be surprised. The whole thing is predictable right from the start and the characters are pure cardboard. There wasn't a single development I didn't see coming pages away. The only remotely interesting characters are the horse and the little girl who is hurt and towards the end of the novel they are sadly neglected in favour of an affair between two people who ought to have known better. Needless to say moral issues are ignored in favour of overwhelming sentimentality and characters undergo the sort of personality changes usually not seen outside the world of soaps - eg a ruthless and ambitious businesswoman suddenly seems content to become a stay at home mother.
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