Red dress walking
By: Sarah Jones
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Crows Nest, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781741755213
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Description: Emily is perhaps not your average heroine. She is a voluptuous woman, round, confident, almost completely oblivious to her looks. She loves fine literature and fine food, is obsessed by restaurant menus and has a complicated relationship with the characters in the books that she reads voraciously. She has a sense of humour and a humorous cast of friends who share her life and participate in clever Jane Austen-esque conversations. Red Dress Walking is a simple love story with erotic sequences, good sex and dramatic misunderstandings that drive its characters to the point of madness. It is a romance of operatic scope and its characters are smart and sassy and generally likable. It shares with other romance novels an almost complete lack of subtext, but this is one of the things that its readers will probably enjoy. To its credit, this is the kind of novel that could be happily read with a glass of red wine and a box of chocolates. It questions the role of beauty and the idea that women can only be happy in the arms of a lover.