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Seven Sunny Days
Looking to get away from it all? Try seven sunny days in an exotic Turkish resort. Club Aegee has luxurious accommodations, unlimited free cocktails and a gorgeous cosmopolitan staff who'll cater to your every need.
Bride-to-be Rachel Buckley wanted one last adventure before tying the knot, and who better to do it with than her two best friends, acid-tongued divorcee Carrie Ann and commitmentphobe model Yaslyn? A week with the girls would also help Rachel forget about her future mother-in-law, who was already controlling her life. Her friends, the beach, the hot waiters...the perfect vacation, right?
But when a week in the same room with her two best friends -- and all their baggage -- exposes more than dirty underwear, Rachel starts to wonder if by gaining a husband she'll be losing two friends....
Seven Sunny Days is the story of three friends awaiting their future, but stuck in their past. Funny and oh-so-familiar, it's for anyone who's spent time under the sun with friends.
Bride-to-be Rachel Buckley wanted one last adventure before tying the knot, and who better to do it with than her two best friends, acid-tongued divorcee Carrie Ann and commitmentphobe model Yaslyn? A week with the girls would also help Rachel forget about her future mother-in-law, who was already controlling her life. Her friends, the beach, the hot waiters...the perfect vacation, right?
But when a week in the same room with her two best friends -- and all their baggage -- exposes more than dirty underwear, Rachel starts to wonder if by gaining a husband she'll be losing two friends....
Seven Sunny Days is the story of three friends awaiting their future, but stuck in their past. Funny and oh-so-familiar, it's for anyone who's spent time under the sun with friends.
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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Chris Manby
38 books122 followersThis author has also released books under the name Chrissie Manby.
Encouraged my by English teacher, Mrs. Pocock, I published my first short story in Just Seventeen when I was fourteen years old. The story was called ‘Whatever happened to the wonderful boy I fell in love with’ and I published it under the pseudonym ‘Carolyn Lane’ because it largely consisted of a transcript of an argument I’d had with my boyfriend. I bought a black denim jacket from C & A with the proceeds.
I continued to contribute short stories to Just Seventeen to help pay my way through university. I studied Experimental Psychology at St Edmund Hall in Oxford. Alas, I devoted rather too much time to my social life and staggered away with an unimpressive 2:2. In retrospect, that 2:2 saved my life. It meant that none of the graduate training schemes I had hoped to join would have me. I wouldn’t become an accountant after all. I moved to London and took a series of temp jobs to support myself. It was while I was working at Prelude Audio Books, a company which took erotic ‘classics’ and put them on tape, that I met my first real novelist: David Garnett.
David is a very well respected science fiction writer, who once dabbled with writing erotica under the name Angelique. Prelude was recording the Angelique novels. One afternoon, David spent a couple of hours sitting on my desk, waiting for my boss to come back from a very long publishing lunch to discuss some unpaid royalties. I told David I’d always wanted to be a writer. He dared me to write a novella like Angelique’s. A few weeks later, I handed him my first full-length manuscript. David cast his experienced eye over my scribblings, helped me tweak it and then passed it on to his editor at Little Brown. Incredibly, she made an offer on it. My dream of becoming a proper writer was reborn.
That first book was called ‘Inspiration’. It centred on the sexual shenanigans of a group of artists in St Ives. Wary of embarrassing my parents, I published ‘Inspiration’ as Stephanie Ash. Four more Stephanie Ash novellas followed, helping me to pay my rent and attract the attention of a literary agent. In 1997, I published my first Chris Manby novel, ‘Flatmates’…
Thirteen novels on the single life as Chris Manby later, I’ve just published ‘Getting Over Mr. Right’ as ‘Chrissie Manby’ (apparently too many people are under the impression that I am a bloke!).
I live in London and when I’m not writing (in fact, even when I’m supposed to be writing) I spend an awful lot of time on Twitter. Follow me on @chrissiemanby.
Encouraged my by English teacher, Mrs. Pocock, I published my first short story in Just Seventeen when I was fourteen years old. The story was called ‘Whatever happened to the wonderful boy I fell in love with’ and I published it under the pseudonym ‘Carolyn Lane’ because it largely consisted of a transcript of an argument I’d had with my boyfriend. I bought a black denim jacket from C & A with the proceeds.
I continued to contribute short stories to Just Seventeen to help pay my way through university. I studied Experimental Psychology at St Edmund Hall in Oxford. Alas, I devoted rather too much time to my social life and staggered away with an unimpressive 2:2. In retrospect, that 2:2 saved my life. It meant that none of the graduate training schemes I had hoped to join would have me. I wouldn’t become an accountant after all. I moved to London and took a series of temp jobs to support myself. It was while I was working at Prelude Audio Books, a company which took erotic ‘classics’ and put them on tape, that I met my first real novelist: David Garnett.
David is a very well respected science fiction writer, who once dabbled with writing erotica under the name Angelique. Prelude was recording the Angelique novels. One afternoon, David spent a couple of hours sitting on my desk, waiting for my boss to come back from a very long publishing lunch to discuss some unpaid royalties. I told David I’d always wanted to be a writer. He dared me to write a novella like Angelique’s. A few weeks later, I handed him my first full-length manuscript. David cast his experienced eye over my scribblings, helped me tweak it and then passed it on to his editor at Little Brown. Incredibly, she made an offer on it. My dream of becoming a proper writer was reborn.
That first book was called ‘Inspiration’. It centred on the sexual shenanigans of a group of artists in St Ives. Wary of embarrassing my parents, I published ‘Inspiration’ as Stephanie Ash. Four more Stephanie Ash novellas followed, helping me to pay my rent and attract the attention of a literary agent. In 1997, I published my first Chris Manby novel, ‘Flatmates’…
Thirteen novels on the single life as Chris Manby later, I’ve just published ‘Getting Over Mr. Right’ as ‘Chrissie Manby’ (apparently too many people are under the impression that I am a bloke!).
I live in London and when I’m not writing (in fact, even when I’m supposed to be writing) I spend an awful lot of time on Twitter. Follow me on @chrissiemanby.
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April 22, 2020
Книгата е от по-лошите чиклити, без да има ясна и конкретна любовна история. Действията на героите бяха пресилени и неадекватни, явно с цел да разсмиват, но на мен не ми беше смешно. Например, така ли няма чадъри край басейна в един луксозен хотел в Турция, че трябва да си запазваш от предната вечер шезлонгите на сянка и да си в конфликт с този, който дойде по-рано и махне чуждите хавлии. Не ми се струва нормално и донякъде усещах обида и пренебрежение към турците. Три англичанки и други чужденци, отишли там на почивка, с някакво превъзходство към другите народи. Турците са показани в негативна светлина. Свалки, неприятни герои, преследвания с цел да завоюваш някого за една вечер, напивания и постоянни конфликти - това въобще не беше прекрасната ваканция, за която очакваш да прочетеш предвид заглавието. Щях да сложа една звезда, но поне накрая англичанките се освестиха и намериха решение на проблемите си.
September 17, 2023
A book very much of its age, and therefore, sadly, limited and quite boring. I made it 50% through, and that was a slog.
Not particularly likeable characters on predictable journies. Life's too short. Next book, please.
Not particularly likeable characters on predictable journies. Life's too short. Next book, please.
July 14, 2011
I am so dissapointed. I)'M giving this book 1,5 stars. This half is for the writing itself, it was good, I can't say a bad word about it, it was compact and logical, but that's all. For me there must be a plot, and there wasn't any.
It's the first book since a very long time that I didn't enjoy reading and that I skipped a lot of (even the whole chapters). It was just boring, from the very start. I have read the same bits of the book and didn't realise that I'd read them already.
I didn't like any of the characters. I thought: wow, hen week, would be a lot of fun. Forget it. All of the characters were all the time sad and miserable, always complaining and never happy. And stupid perhaps, I knew what is going on with, what's her name, Yaslyn?, frm the beginning, and all the book characters needed the whole book to see it.
I don't actually remember the names of the characters, I didn't like them, didn't feel any connection to them and I was not interested in their past (this coming bac to the past just made me more bored!), and actually not interested in their future.
The girsl didn't feel like a friends to me, they were always bitching and having rows and I don't think they can count on each other. Yeah, well, the accident, but when somebody is supposed to be drawn all people want to help. They were just so bad to each other, very negativ - y.
There were just any positive feelings in this book.
It's the first book since a very long time that I didn't enjoy reading and that I skipped a lot of (even the whole chapters). It was just boring, from the very start. I have read the same bits of the book and didn't realise that I'd read them already.
I didn't like any of the characters. I thought: wow, hen week, would be a lot of fun. Forget it. All of the characters were all the time sad and miserable, always complaining and never happy. And stupid perhaps, I knew what is going on with, what's her name, Yaslyn?, frm the beginning, and all the book characters needed the whole book to see it.
I don't actually remember the names of the characters, I didn't like them, didn't feel any connection to them and I was not interested in their past (this coming bac to the past just made me more bored!), and actually not interested in their future.
The girsl didn't feel like a friends to me, they were always bitching and having rows and I don't think they can count on each other. Yeah, well, the accident, but when somebody is supposed to be drawn all people want to help. They were just so bad to each other, very negativ - y.
There were just any positive feelings in this book.
January 8, 2012
Read on one sunny day when I had a random day off.
Very silly: exactly what I expected. Lots of little stories joined together through the device of having all the characters at the same place at the same time, some barely interacting with each other, others doing so in more complicated ways. Most of it rather obvious and I found it hard to like any of the characters much, certainly the female ones. The absent Euan and the may-as-well-have-been Marcus were more sympathetic but one-dimensional, but then I knew it would be plot-driven when I picked it so why carp?
Very silly: exactly what I expected. Lots of little stories joined together through the device of having all the characters at the same place at the same time, some barely interacting with each other, others doing so in more complicated ways. Most of it rather obvious and I found it hard to like any of the characters much, certainly the female ones. The absent Euan and the may-as-well-have-been Marcus were more sympathetic but one-dimensional, but then I knew it would be plot-driven when I picked it so why carp?
January 20, 2012
At the best I would recommend this for light summer reading. It has moments of giddy romance and a lot of fun, but overall I found the different story lines and drama to be pretty bland. It just didn't seem to wrap up well in the end either.
August 7, 2015
Read as part of the 2015 Reading Challenge - A book you own but have never read.
This has been sat on my bookshelf for a couple of years and seemed like the perfect holiday read. Lighthearted and funny,great for poolside reading!
This has been sat on my bookshelf for a couple of years and seemed like the perfect holiday read. Lighthearted and funny,great for poolside reading!
June 29, 2012
pretty good for a first time reader of this author...would read more of this author
August 14, 2023
Three friends go to an all inclusive resort to Turkey to celebrate Rachel's upcoming wedding. Carrie Ann is recently divorced and Yaslyn is ready to help celebrate Rachel's "hen week" with lots of drinking and meeting some tourists. Also at the resort are Marcus and Sally. Marcus planned a surprise week holiday for Sally so they can spend time together since they have been drifting apart. The other characters we meet are: Axel who has been pining away at his ex girlfriend, Gilles, the sexy tennis instructor who tries to bed as many tourists at the club, and Morten the Norwegian.
This is a good summer read but some characters are not well developed and some of the comments made by Yaslyn and Carry Ann are mean. Most of the characters are not very likeable. I liked Rachel the most who tried to be patient with her overbearing future mother in law and selfish friend Yaslyn. The other character who was lovely was Marcus who tried so hard to make the vacation enjoyable for his wife who was ungrateful for his efforts.
This is a good summer read but some characters are not well developed and some of the comments made by Yaslyn and Carry Ann are mean. Most of the characters are not very likeable. I liked Rachel the most who tried to be patient with her overbearing future mother in law and selfish friend Yaslyn. The other character who was lovely was Marcus who tried so hard to make the vacation enjoyable for his wife who was ungrateful for his efforts.
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November 10, 2022
Ovo je jedna veoma šarmantna i duhovita priča, tako da sam se, čitajući ovu knjigu, veoma lepo i slatko nasmejala. Priča o tri prijateljice od kojih se jedna uskoro udaje, a druga se upravo razvela, dok treća ne veruje u ljubav i brak, iako potajno čezne za tim. One zajedno na sedam dana odlaze na odmor u Tursku, gde će proslaviti devojačku nedelju, kao i razvod. To je trebalo da bude najbolji odmor ikada, pun zabave, opuštanja, sunca, mora, peska... Međutim, nije sve tako idealno. Po prvi put njihovo prijateljstvo biva na staklenim nogama i po prvi put se javljaju sumnje u vezi prave ljubavi.
May 23, 2018
This is a silly, fluffy, entertaining story. It follows three British girl-friends on the adventures and conflicts they face on a week at a Turkish resort before one of their weddings. They struggle to stay out of the sun, face too many drinks, and watch a couple's relationship fail as they face their inner demons.
This is a quick moving, fairly easy read, and it is fun. This would be a great book to travel with as it will distract you from the outside world, and it is easy to pick up then put down.
This is a quick moving, fairly easy read, and it is fun. This would be a great book to travel with as it will distract you from the outside world, and it is easy to pick up then put down.
July 11, 2019
I got this really cheap from a charity box and was excited to read it since I've read a couple of her other books.
I was thoroughly disappointed with this read... I didn't connect with any characters, I could understand why Marcus and Sally were part of a story about the three friends... That makes no sense...
The reps were all pathetic and annoying even Axel who I thought was going to be a great character.
As for the three 'friends' I've never read anything less like a friendship of convenience... And honestly who would go on holiday with people like that?
I was thoroughly disappointed with this read... I didn't connect with any characters, I could understand why Marcus and Sally were part of a story about the three friends... That makes no sense...
The reps were all pathetic and annoying even Axel who I thought was going to be a great character.
As for the three 'friends' I've never read anything less like a friendship of convenience... And honestly who would go on holiday with people like that?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 30, 2019
It was light and fluffy which why I chose to read as I found my last read a bit full on! A perfect beach holiday read I think and the ending is all a bit quick, after the effort to get there! Worth a read on a hot beach break, as I would have read in 3 days then I expect, not so easy to fit in life when the busy lead up to Christmas!
November 26, 2022
I thought this book was ok. It was about different people staying at a hotel in Turkey. The main issue that I had with the characters is that none of them were likeable. It was a bit drawn out in places. I didn't find it funny.
I think it would be ok as a beach read.
I think it would be ok as a beach read.
April 28, 2025
DNF. Normally, I refuse not to finish a book, but this one was terrible. the characters are selfish and relatable and barely even friends. and the plot hasn't even started yet, and I was halfway through the book.
August 23, 2017
An enjoyable, light-hearted holiday read.
September 8, 2019
A bit predictable but OK summer read
March 11, 2020
I took the book to read on my winter holiday in Fuerteventura. I found the book surprisingly good- funny and entertaining! I even had to laugh out loud in places. Some serious stuff in it, too.
August 19, 2020
Really struggled to get into this book :(
January 6, 2021
Light right. Good if you don’t want to concentrate too much.
March 14, 2021
Very well researched
January 14, 2022
Cute, relaxing, refreshing.
August 31, 2022
Didn’t finish
August 31, 2022
At first i was confused and bored but after a while it became entertaining and somehow I felt I can relate to some of the characters specifically Yaslyn😊
July 8, 2023
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October 2, 2023
It was ok. Not bad. Not great.
March 3, 2017
I read about a chapter before I realised I'd read it before, but I'm on holiday and it was appropriate light reading, so I kept going.
Ties up too conveniently at the end, but I enjoyed it despite the characters being caricatures.
Ties up too conveniently at the end, but I enjoyed it despite the characters being caricatures.
August 26, 2008
How I Came To Read This Book: I got it for free with a British magazine.
The Plot: Rachel is celebrating her pending nuptials with a 'hen week' (bachelorette party to you and me) in Turkey I believe, along with her two BFF's. Of course, things aren't exactly smooth sailing while on holidays. Rachel spends most of the trip avoiding confrontation, including with her future mother-in-law. Yaslyn is young and beautiful, and afraid of commitment - but by the end of the trip she learns she may not have a choice. Carrie-Ann is older and divorced, and spends most of the trip avoiding the extremely undesirable suitors that try to charm her.
The Good & The Bad: I can't believe I gave this book 3 stars on Amazon. It was terrible! There is a HUGE glaring oversight on behalf of the author involving fetal alcohol syndrome that makes the book jarringly tragic/irresponsible rather than fluffy and fun. There was nothing particularly enjoyable, relatable, or interesting about the characters and their plotlines.
The Bottom Line: A serious skip unless you're looking for a strictly beach-worthy read/snore.
50-Book Challenge?: No
The Plot: Rachel is celebrating her pending nuptials with a 'hen week' (bachelorette party to you and me) in Turkey I believe, along with her two BFF's. Of course, things aren't exactly smooth sailing while on holidays. Rachel spends most of the trip avoiding confrontation, including with her future mother-in-law. Yaslyn is young and beautiful, and afraid of commitment - but by the end of the trip she learns she may not have a choice. Carrie-Ann is older and divorced, and spends most of the trip avoiding the extremely undesirable suitors that try to charm her.
The Good & The Bad: I can't believe I gave this book 3 stars on Amazon. It was terrible! There is a HUGE glaring oversight on behalf of the author involving fetal alcohol syndrome that makes the book jarringly tragic/irresponsible rather than fluffy and fun. There was nothing particularly enjoyable, relatable, or interesting about the characters and their plotlines.
The Bottom Line: A serious skip unless you're looking for a strictly beach-worthy read/snore.
50-Book Challenge?: No
July 6, 2010
I like this book...for very personal reason. I'm in need of vacation, and looking for a trip and holiday theme book... In the end it becomes a pretty nice readings.
The main-theme story is about friendship between three different girls, their relationship with each other, and their own problems. One of them is getting married, and being happy almost in every pages of the book. The other is a divorcee who seems hopeless and looking for another guy to be in love with. The last one is a girl who (weirdly) afraid of commitments.
There are also a married couple who feel don't love each other that much, try to find new love under the sun of Middle-East.
Combine these elements with exotic holiday in a private club, you'll get a story.
I've been those three. All girls have been in the same situations on their life: in doubt, heart-broken, and happy. That what makes me keep reading...even though its a bit boring. The conflicts aren't that shocking, and only appears in last chapters.
Thank God its a happy-ending book.
The main-theme story is about friendship between three different girls, their relationship with each other, and their own problems. One of them is getting married, and being happy almost in every pages of the book. The other is a divorcee who seems hopeless and looking for another guy to be in love with. The last one is a girl who (weirdly) afraid of commitments.
There are also a married couple who feel don't love each other that much, try to find new love under the sun of Middle-East.
Combine these elements with exotic holiday in a private club, you'll get a story.
I've been those three. All girls have been in the same situations on their life: in doubt, heart-broken, and happy. That what makes me keep reading...even though its a bit boring. The conflicts aren't that shocking, and only appears in last chapters.
Thank God its a happy-ending book.
June 19, 2011
I love it when I find a new author! Manby is so it for me. Every time I see her books in the library, I grab them now. This book is mainly 3 different stories intertwined in each other. They all take place at a resort in Turkey over the span of a week. The first is a group of girls who are on their hen week for one of them. One of the girls in the group has been with her boyfriend for a long time and the third is newly divorced. The second group is a couple who is on the verge of divorce. The women just doesn’t speak to the husband anymore. And the third “group” are the people that work at the resort, especially this one Dude who is working there to try to stop thinking of his ex-girlfriend in Paris. He hooks up with the newly divorced women. This book, while contributes nothing to anything and I will probably not even remember that I have read it in a year, was very entertaining for the moment.
Grade: C
Grade: C
June 11, 2009
I would generally say it isn't a good thing when you read at least a chapter into a book before you realise that you have already read it. However, I guess when it's a chick-lit beach read you have to appreciate more the re-readability of a novel. If I was home with unlimited books I probably would have stopped at that point, but as I was on holiday with only four books (for five days away and averaging at least a book a day...), then I didn't have much choice.
I kept getting glimpses of ideas of what was going to happen, but it wasn't so clear that I was frustrated at seeing the next step every time. It must have been quite a while since I read this, but it didn't feel more predictable than when I read any other typical romancey, chick litty tome. I'd originally chosen it from the library because Manby is a fairly safe bet for a decent read, and I guess that's what I got again.
I kept getting glimpses of ideas of what was going to happen, but it wasn't so clear that I was frustrated at seeing the next step every time. It must have been quite a while since I read this, but it didn't feel more predictable than when I read any other typical romancey, chick litty tome. I'd originally chosen it from the library because Manby is a fairly safe bet for a decent read, and I guess that's what I got again.
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