Sarah and Lauren have been best friends since they were eleven. Now in their early thirties Sarah is about to get married while Lauren is single and concentrating on her publishing career. With their increasingly different lifestyles they are not as close as they once were and so when Sarah enlists Lauren to help with wedding planning she does so partly in the hope that they can reconnect.
Rich and Pretty is a novel about female friendships written by a man, there's a lot of it that doesn't ring true and I felt that the author failed to capture the nuances of female friendships.
Nothing significant seems to happen in this story - there's no big conflict, no coming together - the story simply seems to plod along with not much happening beyond the wedding preparations.
I also felt that the characters weren't very distinctively drawn to the extent that I kept finding myself flicking back and forth thinking' Wait, which one is Sarah/Lauren?'
This was another book that had good editorial reviews that I failed to connect with. It was a quick read that took me some time to finish as I just wasn't inclined to pick it up. Twenty pages in I almost put this down but didn't. I wish I had...
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