Something to Talk About

by Sarah Webb

Can men and women ever really be friends? Lucy and Max have been best friends forever. Lucy, a bored beautician with a sad Jamie Oliver obsession, is determined to find kite-maker, Max a girlfriend. Someone who will meet up to her own high standards. In the name of 'True Love' and with the help of Jamie's 'The Naked Chef', Lucy decides to hold a 'Meet Max' dinner to find Max the right woman, in the form of her beautiful friend, Jenny. Food, wine and romance go hand in hand after all. But soon easy-going Max is running scared of man-eater, Jenny. He decides he'd much prefer to be out flying his power kites than falling into the dating pit again. However fate works in mysterious ways...

Genres: Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance

484 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 31, 2002

About the author

Sarah Webb is an award-winning children’s writer. Her books include Blazing a Trail: Irish Women who Changed the World (illustrated by Lauren O’Neill) and A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood (illustrated by Steve McCarthy), both winners of Irish Book Awards.

Sarah also runs creative writing clubs for children and teens, reviews children’s books for the Irish Independent, and programmes children’s and family events for book festivals and MoLI (Museum of Literature Ireland). She also works part-time in a children’s bookshop.

Sarah is passionate about bringing children and books together and was awarded the Children’s Books Ireland Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books in Ireland.
Her latest book, The Little Beekeeper of Henrietta Street (illustrated by Rachel Corcoran) was published in 2021.

www.sarahwebb.ie
Twitter: @sarahwebbishere
Instagram: @sarahwebbwriter

Reviews

[Dhuha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Summer read chick lit in case u r into the kind of thing. Not the best I read. But worth a look.

[Ness · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has been sitting on my bookshelf for a while, bought it at a book sale. It explores whether men and women can be friends, very when Harry met Sally.

Lucy wasn't my favourite character, she was very bossy and flawed but somehow surrounded herself with a nice bunch of friends.

Some scenarios were very sex and the city, women talking candidly about their lives over a meal.

Very easy read to start off the new year. I think it's a record for me to start and finish a book in under seven hours.

[Eman14 · Rating 3 out of 5]

based on the Jane Austin (Emma) .......I enjoyed it but not so much ......she tends to describe alot about food ingredients, kites........the first few chapters were boring ...things started to get better in the middle ........in the last few chapters well not very convincing.....Igave her credit for me completing to the end...........I don't get tired easily and this was my first Sara Webb and I'm going to read another of hers If I find it

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was ok, it did make me read on when i put it down as i just wanted to know what happened. I didn't like her style of writing, i think she was a childrens author originally? I found it quite annoying when she explained everything all the time. Found the story quite predictable though, the whole max and lucy thing was obviously going to happen from the very start. All in all, it was ok!

[Simran · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very, very realistic story with very, very realistic characters. You love them sometimes, you hate them sometimes - but still, you're always rooting for them because they're like your friends. The plot seems predictable but there are a number of unpredictable twists along the way! I enjoyed this book :)

[Roxie Gallinger · Rating 2 out of 5]

good eye candy quite entertaining

[Roisin]

Very Funny and honestly i think what goes on betwenn Lucy and Max are a regular occurnance wwithing people <3

[Monique · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice story, not to much see-trough but still a chicklit.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

One that made me laugh. Your typical boy and girl are best friends until complications occur.
At the same time there were moments that were serious and made me sad.
A chilled summer read.

[Becca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute....fun...chick-lit...

[Eleanor · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fun easy read like most of Sarah webb books.

[Moiraog · Rating 5 out of 5]

stayed up all night to finish it!!! just couldn't put it down without knowing what the final result was going to be