Getting Rid of Matthew

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The female characters are well-written and believable (for the most part) with a strong underlying value system which comes through. The conundrum for me came with the relationship between Rebecca and Lorna. I was expecting the bitchy nature to persist but some of the directions the plot took threw me a little. However, it was really great to see women actually supporting each other, rather than the undermining, volatile relationships continuing. Helen demands more of his time, but initially he refuses to leave his wife Sophie and his two daughters and Helen is left frustrated and alone in her flat with just her TV dinners for company. The book touches on the world of acting because Rebecca works for an acting agency, and I enjoyed these little offshoots in the novel. Ithink it added a new perspective to the story and gives you a little break from the more emotional storylines that feature in the book. Fallon’s writing is so easy to read, you can lose yourself in the shortish chapter in the books and find that you’ve ploughed through a quarter of it before you’ve realised as its so enjoyable. I really couldn’t put it down because I wanted to find out what was going on next! It panned out better than I thought it would and this is a perfect example of a ten-star rating system, being a good 7 out of 10 read.

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. PLAN B: Accidentally on purpose bump into his wife Sophie. Give yourself a fake name and identity. Befriend Sophie. Actually begin to really like Sophie. Snog Matthew's son (who's the same age as you by the way. You're not a paedophile). Buy a cat and give it a fake name and identity. Befriend Matthew's children. Unsuccessfully. Watch your whole plan go absolutely horribly wrong. 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. 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! Recommended to anyone interested in reading a mature, original and ironic take on poorly-thought-out relationships, a drama story without the soap.

I am in an emotional quandary entirely of my own making. I try to stride proudly around, claiming I'll read anything once, trying to eschew the all-too-common academic trend of looking down on popular culture or books that everyone is reading. So I make sure there are one or two recently popular books on my reading list at any one time. I'm open-minded, dammit! Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000261 Openlibrary_edition 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. With that said, I think Fallon also has a deft touch when it comes to characterisation. She writes strong and real female characters, who are bitchy and loving by turn. Those that are mothers have warm and realistic relationships with their children, who are also written well. 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.

Helen is single heading towards her 40-s birthday. She is hopelessly in love with a married man, who is also her boss. Helen's job is less than exciting, she is a PA, a glorified secretary with mundane monotonous tasks. Her flats is small and dump, her perspectives in life generally do not make her happy. I don't want to reveal much but this book is filled with drama (LOTS OF DRAMA) but it has room for some character development and several funny moments. 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.

I usually love Jane Fallon the way she creates interesting characters, allows a bond to develop, drops a bombshell about them which makes you question your morals and then makes you hate/love them before ensure their worlds collide with a harsh dose of reality and a serving of justice. It is not one of the 'Seven Story Lines'. It's just family/work shenanigans, a comic suburban caper. Just like after my first Jane Fallon book, I come away thinking women, and family in general, inhabit a very complicated world.

On leaving, she was unemployed for 18 months and trying to ignore the job advertisements which her father used to cut out of the paper and send to her, when one arrived which was for a Girl Friday in a Theatrical and Literary Agency. She got the job. 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. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-05-07 19:00:43 Boxid IA40099209 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 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. She's begged Matthew for years to leave the marriage he's always insisted is empty, but when he suddenly turns up at her flat after Christmas telling her he's left his wife, Sophie, and brought all his stuff to move in with Helen, she realises it's not what she wants at all. In fact, now that Matthew is here in her small home, every day, crowding her, making it impossible for her to do all the things she loved doing in her time alone (time that had previously seemed so depressing), Helen ceases to love Matthew altogether. The affair and broken marriage eventually leaks out at work and Helen finally admits that she has to change her life, starting with her resignation. But when she tries to break up with him, he becomes pitiable and she lets him stay.Alloy’s romance Purple Hearts, starring Sofia Carson and Nicolas Galitzine, just became the seventh most-watched movie in Netflix history. The film from director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum follows struggling singer-songwriter Cassie (Carson) and troubled Marine Luke (Galitzine) as they agree to marry solely for military benefits, in spite of their many differences.But when tragedy strikes, the line between real and pretend begins to blur. 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.