Parallel Turns

by Sarah Ingham

Skiing? Forget it! The thought of hurtling down a mountainside on two pieces of fibreglass fills Flora Rose with horror.

How could she ever have let her fiancé Jamie cajole her into sharing an Alpine chalet with eight of his appalling friends? So begins an extraordinary week of drama, danger, thrills and spills, passion, violence, tears, tantrums, sordid secrets – and unexpected romance. After which, nothing will be quite the same again.

Genres: Fiction

482 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 1999

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Reviews

[Ann Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Amazon promo says: "An uplifting laugh-out-loud, winter-sport romance" and " hilarious but emotional and heartwarming love story" and "A dazzling, feel-good romantic comedy". It's none of these things. The cover was changed from the 1990's, perhaps to match the new spin. It was actually more interesting than the promo suggests, but definitely not uplifting, laugh-out loud, hilarious, heartwarming, feel-good, or a comedy. There was skiing, lots of angst, and some very unlikeable characters.

[Ms Jeni Butler · Rating 1 out of 5]

Truly awful

Badly written, with tedious, unlikeable characters, and a 'heroine' with a wilted blade of grass where her spine should be. Honestly, it's one of the dullest books ever and not remotely funny.

[Love To Read · Rating 4 out of 5]

Light hearted reading. The flow of the story keeps you wanting to turn the page. It is as it suggests, set in a ski setting with the characters portraying that sense and way of life...it gives the reader good visual description to form the scene in your mind, Sarah Ingham is a good writer in my opinion. At the end of the day it is a book designed for fun reading. Unemotional but interesting.

All in all it was a decent read.

[Julia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Quite the worst book in the English language. So bad it’s good! You’ll be desperate for all the characters to get buried in an avalanche by chapter 2.

[Liuda Bacinscaia · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book didn’t catch my attention from the start, and it was not quite my cup of tea, but towards the middle it started getting more interesting. For one time read the novel is okay.