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Getting Rid of Matthew
by Jane Fallon
A funny novel about getting what you want, but then realizing it's not what you really want.
Getting Rid of Matthew is an excellent book about a mistress who discovers that being a mistress is better than being with him 24/7. Helen is pushing 40 and works at a P.R. firm with her married middle-aged lover.
Helen realizes that after four years, Matthew is never going to leave his wife. But then all of a sudden one day he does leave his wife and two teenage daughters, and moves in with Helen.
She then realizes that Matthew moving in isn't all it's cracked up to be, and Helen finds herself not liking him much.
Helen then comes up with a brilliant plan, to get Matthew to leave her. She stops putting make-up on, stops shaving, stops looking pretty. But that doesn't seem to be working. Matthew seems to be content to live with Helen and doesn't want to leave.
So then Helen meets Sophie, Matthew's wife, who doesn't know that Helen is her Matthew's Helen. So Helen gets this idea in her head, that she can somehow get Matthew to go back to his wife and two kids; which proves to be difficult. Can Helen do it?
I found this book hilariously funny. Not only is Jane Fallon a brilliant author, but this book is different than most books I've read. This one is about a woman who realizes that she doesn't want her married lover anymore, and trys to get him back together with his wife.
Getting Rid of Matthew would make an excellent movie, and someone should make it into one.
Title: Getting Rid of Matthew
Author: Jane Fallon
Publisher: Harper Collins Canada
ISBN: 0006481205
Review written by: ivy-lynn pluchinsky
Reviewer's Rating:9.5
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