Four play by fiona walker

summary of the book:Despite her broken heart, when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensen's new band, the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blonds with the souls of poets, they could be made for each other. But before they have chance to declare themselves, Dilly's friend Nell confides that she has a huge crush on Magnus, and Dilly nobly steps down in order to play reluctant matchmaker. Nell returns the favour by setting her friend up with her dashing twin brother Flipper. But Flipper the bounder is not a good rebound for a true romantic. He hides a secret that could break Dilly's heart all over again...


Having never written a book review before I was kind of prompted into this by another member Wanda actually i dono what to write so here goes.So what have we here, Dilly (Deliliah Gently) who fancies Mags (Magnus), Nell (Penelope) who has just appeared after years of absence, Mags who has just quit his band and Flipper(Phillip) twin brother of Nell and just who are the Three Disgraces and just what is the dark secret Nell and Dilly have been keeping to themselves, will the truth every be told?
Well read on and I will give you some glimpses as to who these characters are but not too much as that would just spoil the fun wouldn’t.OK a little bit about the main characters

Dilly Gently- Dilly falls in love easily and always ends up with her heart broken as she is searching for her soul mate, Dilly’s mother Pheely (Ophelia) Gently – please who came up with these characters names :)))), is a bit of Bram pot to say the least and has high ambitions for her daughter to marry somebody with money. Dilly however, is when we first meet her totally and utterly heart broken and still at the point where she burst into tears at the shear mention of her ex boyfriends name and is not in the least bit interested in plunging into another relationship or looking for her soul mate. The book mainly focuses around Dilly and her close friends and how their actions affect each other and indeed how the act together affects their friendships and relationships with each other in some very interesting ways.

Nell Cotterell – Dilly knows Nell from boarding school with the age of 8 – Nell is older than Dilly and Dilly used to idolise her way back then but just what hold does Nell have over Dilly and why is she so controlling and manipulative. Nell is by all accounts stunningly attractive and has no problem at all in getting what she wants no matter who she has to trample over to get it regardless of friendship or feelings. Nell knows she has a hold over Dilly and she uses it to her own advantage even if she hurts Dilly’s feelings and gets in her way.

Mags (Magnus)- Good looking talented singer who has just quit the band he was in or did they ditch him, Mags has found himself without a band and single at the same time which is unusual, but unbeknown top Mags there is a lot of ingenious manipulation going on that affects the direction of his life, though things don’t always go to plan and we see quite a lot interesting moments with Mags along the way and his involvement with the other characters in the book.

Flipper Cotterell- Twin brother to Nell and the local vet, totally horse mad and very close to Nell, total womaniser with the reputation to go with it. Flipper is the local heart throb and is the male version of the stunning Nell and flits from one girlfriend to another with no commitment at all as he has vowed never to love another again, though who was his 1st love, not even his twin sister Nell knows about this, but there is someone else who does watching in the wings, will we find out who this mystery lady is, wait and see as I am sure you won’t get it until near the end of the book and think that it is somebody else before you get there, which i still don't know who!!!!!

OK how do these four fit together, well Dilly bumps into Nell through a mutual friend and Mags is looking to start a new band and is holding auditions. Dilly, Nell and Flipper all go to the auditions with a bit a persuasion from the three disgraces, I can sense some manipulation going on here with the characters lives, lets see what happens. As it happens and all four end up forming a new band, Dilly has a wonderful voice, Flipper can play drums and Nell, well Nell just looks good and has no talent at all.The book then follows the ins and outs of the lives of the four main characters and what happens to them next, there are a lot of other characters in this book and initially over the first couple of chapters it is quite a lot to take in. After you have got through all the character introductions, its not that bad there are just a lot of them and worked out their relationships with each other and indeed these are interesting in places particularly as the setting for this book appears to be in a village in the middle of nowhere where as you would expect everybody knows everyone else and their business also so lots of village gossip.
Getting back to the plot - our four main characters, a lot centres around their lives and relationships with each other, how these develop and affect each other and the consequences of their actions and I found that I was eager to keep reading to the point where I was most disgusted to get near the end of the book as there was a lot of trauma & soap opera & bold & beautiful boring details and I wanted to read on to finish the book or almost know the end as sometime i can loose my patience if the book not interested but i want to know the end. so return again to The book builds up to the leap year hunt ball where there will be a prize for the first lady to propose and be accepted and there are a few candidates and a few bets along the way as to what will happen. Anyway Mags old band have a new member and a new name are have been booked to play at the hunt ball, Mags band also manage to secure a spot at the hunt ball so that they can see who is the best but does it all end happily?As we get nearer to the hunt ball we see lots of meddling and manipulation of peoples lives, skeletons come out of closets and all secrets revealed and some speculation about some of the relationships of the character, but don’t expect me to tell what these are or what actually happens at the hunt ball.
Overall I found this book a very easy and boring to read and wouldn't recommend it as a good holiday book or as any thing i only read it, because i can't buy or have a book that i can't read it, yes there are quite a lot characters that makes mess at the end isn't easy to follow and understand and even if you have all your concentration. Initially I bought this book as I liked the cover, and i like romance books, but also great book selection method I have going on – if the cover looks good I will read it regardless of author etc, it was the dusky metallic pink background which is nowhere near as bright as the picture above, with the big bold letter with underwear and a few butterflies floating between the letters which made me curios as to what it would be about.
This is now in my holiday pile of books as I intend to drop it to wanda to read it if she still wants , sorry wanda wanda i tried not to burn it to you as much as I can and if u read it and have more passion than me PS tell me who was flipper lover as i lost my interest & concentration.

well the rest is paragraphs i liked from the book
here one of the charchter's the three disgraces are talking i think, trying to fix mag with Delli

"what wrong with trying to spread a little happiness?"
then Blah blah
" what do u know about love?"
"a lot more than you,little sister"
"like hell, you love them and leave them"
"exactly. we all do"
" whats that supposed to mean"
"think of true love a the most delicious thing you've ever eaten"
"like chocolate"
" like chocolate, true love is really dark,bitter,cocoa-rich for connoisseurs"
"now I've taste-tested love,but I'm not ready to eat it every day. I'm a galaxy girl through - and through and that's just a quick fix.bitter chocolate lovers are the true passion junkies"

well i skipped all the descriptions , who said to who but this is nice if we really think about it, i liked well then if u would understand me ,
Magnus and dilly compose songs & lyrics together , so she write a poem that sums love they think its romantic then she argue with them by saying

"you know , i used to think so too, when I believed love to be this great overwhelming emotion that makes people feel safe. only it doesn't make you feel safe at all, you can't trust it - just as you can't touch it, smell it, taste it or see it, it's just there, this intangible feeling that takes your life and throws it upside down, and then it robs you blind. it's cruel. it frightens me. it really bloody frightens me"

also

"love has no price, love is hard to earn, but ultimately its worth nothing. that's the whole point. you have nothing to lose by taking it. nothing. it's too priceless to have any value. only men think they can buy it. we know different"

also
" why does someone who writes such heartfelt modern ballads listen to classical music?"
"why does someone who is heartbroken yet still believes in love fall into with a well - advertised heart breaker?"
"why do we breath?"
"Eat?"
"Sleep?"
"Watch T.V?"
"Talk nonsense?"
"Platitudes?"
"Skirting Issues?
"Avoiding truth?"
"Hinting?"
"Lying?"

also

" I have a picture pinned to my wall.
An Image of you & me & we ' re laughing and loving it all.
look at our life now,tattered and torn.
we fuss and we fight and delight in the tears that we cry until down.
Hold me now,warm my heart.
stay with me,let loving start.
let loving start.
you say I'm a dreamer, we are two of a kind.
both of us searching for some perfect world we know we'll never find.
so perhaps I should leave here,yeah yeah go far away.
but you know that there's nowhere that I'd rather be than with you here today.
hold me now, warm my heart.
stay with me, let loving start.
let loving start.
you ask if I love you,well what can I say?
you know that i do and if this is just one of those games that we play
so I'll sing you a new song, please don't cry anymore.
and then I'll ask your forgiveness,though i don't know just what I'm asking it for
hold me now, warm my heart
stay with me, let loving start
let loving start

well since I'm romance sucker so hope you will understand why i choose these parts only, as the rest for me were ciaos, and more like soap opera