Can't Buy Me Love
Sometimes, a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do….
It’s the sixties, but London isn’t swinging for our girl Edith, whose life seems to offer so little hope. Trapped in a home full of anger and hate, with a father determined to destroy her, she is desperate to escape. So, when her gay cousin, Ronnie, comes to her rescue she seizes the opportunity and life, it seems, will never be the same again. Ronnie’s single-minded determination to transform her introduces her to a whole new unconventional world, full of quirky characters and new ideas that, for Edith, finally get the sixties swinging.
Free of her abusive father and her weak, defenseless mother, the changes are swift and dramatic as Edith’s coming of age becomes an adventure-filled, roller-coaster ride until her father comes back to haunt her and threatens to ruin everything. Where will it take her and how will it end? Who will win and who will lose? And just what does a girl ‘gotta’ do when a girl’s just ‘gotta’ do it, as she chooses between love and money?
I got this as a Read Now from NetGalley, it was tagged as a Memoir, since been changed to Women's Fiction. Fiction it is, written in the style of a memoir, only told from two peoples perspective. Sophia, formally known as Edith and Ronnie her cousin.
It didn't really do it for me. All the sex scenes and “How wonderful I look” from Sophia, and the wonderful Ronnie, it's all a hedonistic lifestyle that they are trying to pursue.
The writing was good and it was an easy read. I also, unknown to me at the time got the second book so I read that as well. At least I didn't feel short changed that the first book just finished.
Not sure I would pay for the other books just to see how it ended.
Thank you to the Publisher and NetGalley for my ARC in return for an honest review.