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# Good Material

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Buy Good Material: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE by Alderton, Dolly from desertcart's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.

Review: captivating - I enjoyed the book. The pace was fast, the characters were interesting and the theme of universal interest. There were twee moments and a bit of a predictable plot towards the book’s conclusion. However, the ending was superb. I was very impressed. It really made me think about the amount of control people really have in their destinies.
Review: It reaches above being an average romantic fiction read - This was picked up because I was looking for a light and easy read as an interlude for the heavy-going book I was also reading, with that in mind I wasn't really looking for anything particularly groundbreaking and I expected that this would be just another general romantic fiction book aimed at 20-40 year old women. I was therefore pleasantly surprised when this book did go someway to breaking the generic mould of its genre with a plotline focused on a breakdown from the perspective of a male character with an interesting twist at the end where the reader got to hear the Jen the ex-girlfriend's side of the story. It was a little different, in a good way. By the end of the book I liked both characters. There wasn't really a goodie and a baddie as their often is in this genre, instead you had the story of two people who had grown apart and were wanting different things from their lives, its a realistic plotline and one that often happens in real life but seems to rarely be featured as a plotline in romantic fiction because it doesn't have the drama of having a plotline villian. I liked the stand-up comedy thread running throughout and I thought it was well-written, having read the acknowledgments at the end I saw that comedian Ivo Graham had advised on this aspect of the book and you can tell because it felt realistic, having read a recent book which also had a stand-up comedian central character I know that this is often not realistically portrayed. The book is well written and I think that is what elevates it from being just another generic romantic fiction book. I felt the first half of the book just plodded along and was quite generic but with the benefit of hindsight I can see that it was going through the motions and setting the scene for the final half which was more internally focused on the emotions experienced by each character. I enjoyed the more inward-looking aspects of the book and by the final quarter of the book I was finding myself crying at points which I wasn't expecting. If I were to be critical of the book, I felt that I could tell the male character had been written by a woman and I found that irritating at points as he felt so generic, a male character that had zero emotional support from his friends. Again from reading the acknowledgments I saw that the author had used her male friends for research into this aspect of the book, maybe I'm wrong or maybe she has used a narrow research pool but it didn't feel realistic to me. Overall I really enjoyed the book and would recommend to anyone after an easy fictional read.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 3,523 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 13 in Self-Help & Psychology Humour 44 in Love, Sex & Marriage Humour 169 in Romantic Comedy (Books) |
| Customer reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (20,021) |
| Dimensions  | 12.8 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm |
| Edition  | Heruitgave |
| ISBN-10  | 0241993164 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0241993163 |
| Item weight  | 246 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 352 pages |
| Publication date  | 1 Aug. 2024 |
| Publisher  | Penguin |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ captivating
*by F***T on 11 June 2025*

I enjoyed the book. The pace was fast, the characters were interesting and the theme of universal interest. There were twee moments and a bit of a predictable plot towards the book’s conclusion. However, the ending was superb. I was very impressed. It really made me think about the amount of control people really have in their destinies.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It reaches above being an average romantic fiction read
*by E***L on 18 November 2024*

This was picked up because I was looking for a light and easy read as an interlude for the heavy-going book I was also reading, with that in mind I wasn't really looking for anything particularly groundbreaking and I expected that this would be just another general romantic fiction book aimed at 20-40 year old women. I was therefore pleasantly surprised when this book did go someway to breaking the generic mould of its genre with a plotline focused on a breakdown from the perspective of a male character with an interesting twist at the end where the reader got to hear the Jen the ex-girlfriend's side of the story. It was a little different, in a good way. By the end of the book I liked both characters. There wasn't really a goodie and a baddie as their often is in this genre, instead you had the story of two people who had grown apart and were wanting different things from their lives, its a realistic plotline and one that often happens in real life but seems to rarely be featured as a plotline in romantic fiction because it doesn't have the drama of having a plotline villian. I liked the stand-up comedy thread running throughout and I thought it was well-written, having read the acknowledgments at the end I saw that comedian Ivo Graham had advised on this aspect of the book and you can tell because it felt realistic, having read a recent book which also had a stand-up comedian central character I know that this is often not realistically portrayed. The book is well written and I think that is what elevates it from being just another generic romantic fiction book. I felt the first half of the book just plodded along and was quite generic but with the benefit of hindsight I can see that it was going through the motions and setting the scene for the final half which was more internally focused on the emotions experienced by each character. I enjoyed the more inward-looking aspects of the book and by the final quarter of the book I was finding myself crying at points which I wasn't expecting. If I were to be critical of the book, I felt that I could tell the male character had been written by a woman and I found that irritating at points as he felt so generic, a male character that had zero emotional support from his friends. Again from reading the acknowledgments I saw that the author had used her male friends for research into this aspect of the book, maybe I'm wrong or maybe she has used a narrow research pool but it didn't feel realistic to me. Overall I really enjoyed the book and would recommend to anyone after an easy fictional read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Way better than I expected after first few pages!
*by J***C on 1 May 2025*

I started this book and almost gave up on it after about 10 minutes. But actually, I just finished it and I really really enjoyed it. It has given me pause for thought. I think it would make a really good movie actually. Not your average rom com, it looks at a break up of a long term relationship at that age when you’re meant to settle down, with a female character who just doesn’t want to be in a relationship. Strange that it’s an unusual point of view for a female character really! Both characters annoyed me a bit but that didn’t affect the fact that it was a good read.

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