Whatever It Takes: The unputdownable hit from the Sunday Times bestselling author of BOTH OF YOU

I really enjoyed, it's a lovely book with beautifully detailed descriptions of the characters & their lives. Vivid & heartbreaking story line with Alzheimers and infertility without the melodramatic side of it.Dartmouth was described so vividly you feel that you have lived there. Eloise & Margaret were my favourite characters they wove you in without you noticing it. A heartbreaking story of love, illness, friendship, deception & betayal.

Good story

Eloise, loving wife and mother to three daughters agrees to fulfil her husband Mark's wish to leave her beloved London and move to Dartmouth. Her mother-in-law Margaret and father-in-law Ray live nearby and are very excited to have them all so close.However Margaret's health is failing to dementia, making it very challenging for all the family. Eloise is also faced with leaving her best friend Sara,they have shared so much together, and Eloise has always been so supportive to her, for Sara has been trying for such a long time to have a child and it is eating her up inside.Shortly after moving Eloise finds herself in the position of trying to keep everyone happy,as circumstances prevailing their lives have become somewhat chaotic.I have to say that in my opinion both Eloise and Sara have characters that are quite if not very hard to believe in!A good read though,and I thought that Margaret's decline was sensitively told.

Delivered on time, just what i requested. books in good condition.

I just finished this after reading About Last Night and I've come to the conclusion that Adele Parks might need some professional help.She either knows very little about relationships or has spent too much time in dysfunctional relationships.In both stories the two women are supposed to be best friends but they have little in common, don't seem to like each other very much and treat each other badly.The character Eloise in Whatever it Takes seems to be some type of dim witted martyr while Sara is selfish and self centered as well as cruel.The men in the story are little more than props and are even more clueless and inadequate than their wives.I gave the book two stars because I did want to see what happened. The premise of the book was good but the execution was ghastly. While the plot twist at the end was interesting it was also unbelievable to the point of being stupid.I read an essay once about Adele Parks being "dumped" by a friend of hers and I can't help but wonder if these books are either revenge or a way for her to work out her personal issues. Either way she'll have to do it without my time and money. We'd all be a lot better off if she went for therapy and stopped subjecting readers to these unlikeable, unrealistic characters.