I Love You...and Other Lies - Books (David Charters, Paperback)

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Customer Reviews of I Love You...and Other Lies

Rupert Sterling
London, UK
18th March 2004

A brilliant sequel
Having thoroughly enjoyed "No Tears" and its portrayal of life in the City of London, the prospect of more stories from David Charters proved irresistible. Although they deal with relationships rather than the financial world, David Charters' brilliant twists and turns surprise and shock in equal measure - the scary thing is that the situations he writes about are all too real. I thoroughly recommend it for anyone who wants to understand the modern relationship.

18th March 2004

DARKLY ENTERTAINING
Life can be tough, and relationships need to be worked at - that's the message that comes out for this latest collection of short stories by David Charters. And if things go wrong - watch out! There are all the twists and turns of "No Tears," but this time it's not the fat cats in the City who get their just desserts, but bad men and women. As a divorced woman I was more than a little biased in the stories I preferred, but the collection as a whole is well balanced and nicely varied in tone between the humorous and the truly frightening. A great read.

Dr E V Dekou

17th March 2004

Real masterpiece!
What a wonderful book! Really exceptional! Describes in a very nice, witty and humane way the painful process of divorce and separation! Characters are people 'next door' with passions and weaknesses and all share the same goal: finding happiness and emotional balance. David Charters once more proves that he masters the art of human psychic and describes in a unique way a story that will touch your heart! Highly recommended!

17th March 2004

Home truths
Delightfully, viciously entertaining! Some may find the home truths in this collection a bit too close to home. A must read for both sides of any family dispute, it neatly encapsulates the lose lose results of marital breakdown while at the same time being wickedly entertaining!

16th March 2004

Don't read this on your honeymoon
I bought Charters's first book, No Tears, partly because I'd worked in the City long ago and was interested to see how well he'd captured it, and partly out of a different sort of curiosity - everyone says short stories don't sell. On the first count he blew me away - this was the sharpest (in both senses) fictional portrait of the City I'd ever read. The perfect blend between authentically capturing the pitiably prosaic everyday life there and the heady whiff of kerosene whenever the big money works its personality-warping alchemy. As to sales, he has kicked every preconception into the long grass, and the printers must have got numb fingers keeping up with presses.

Now he moves on to marriage, and boy will this one create a stir. It's not that the stories are really darker, they just feel that way. After all, bankers we love to hate, and if they get their come-uppance, who cares? But schadenfreude doesn't work so well when the target is most of us. These tales make it hard not to look your own marriage in the mirror, and wonder how you or your other half would behave if they whole thing unravelled. If Charters is right, the answer is probably badly - so badly that you would wonder whether you ever really knew that person at all. Brilliant, hugely funny stuff, then, and possible for reading on the eve of your nuptials, if you're teh sort that likes to keep your options open till the last minute. But don't under any circumstances take this book on your honeymoon - if you're spouse even sees you've got it, you're in big trouble