Katherine's Wheel

by Rebecca Gregson

For years Katherine, her husband Johnny and their friends Beth and Patrick have been contributing to a "millennium fund", to ensure they see in the millennium with style. But during the summer of 1999 the pressure gets too much, and cracks begin to show in friendships, marriages and family life.

Genres: Fiction

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 1999

About the author

Rebecca Gregson is a former BBC and newspaper journalist. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and two children. Her bestselling debut Katherine's Wheel and Zebras Crossing are also available from Pocket Books....

Reviews

[Shirley Dawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A story of four old college friends and their complicated relationships between themselves and others. Now in their 30s, none of them seem to know what or who they want and the story is a bit of a mishmash of personalities, failed marriages and fickle sexual encounters.
The whole book is a countdown to the Millenium and culminates in a New Year's Eve party.
Well written and good characterisation but I only awarded it 3 stars as I felt it was unnecessarily too long.

[Lucy McLaurin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite hard going to finish but managed it and quite enjoyed it.

[Ginger · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It is follows 4 college friends, 2 girls 2 guys, as they enter their 30s and the new millenium. Each one of the characters has placed their own importance on the date and where they wanted their lives to be at this time.

I picked this book up at a book sale and held on to it for quite a while before I got to it and just so happened to be reading it on New Year's Eve 2010. It was quite engrossing as I would often forget that the New Years I would be celebrating that night was not the beginning of the millenium.