The Go-To Girl

by Louise Bagshawe

Book Overview

Gorgeous goddesses seem to surround lowly script-reader Anna Brown--from her deranged, glamour-queen boss to her perfect, pouting roommates. For Anna, being less-than-beautiful is hard to bear. With a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312339917
• ISBN13: 9780312339913
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

THE GO TO GIRL AND MONDAYS CHILD

THE STRANGEST THING I ORDERED BOTH THESE BOOKS FROM YOU AND THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME STORY !!!!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE BOTH BACK COVERS START WITH "gorgeous goddesses......." Imagine my surprise two different titles same story could you please explain. Thank you

So much fun

Unusually well-written and fabulously fun chick lit. Hilarious and enthralling, I started it right before going to the beach and found myself too absorbed to even swim-I just spent the whole time reading. Bubble-gum fluff, of course, but then isn't that what it's all about? Anna is a character you can empathize so much with, there are plenty of plot turnings and small details to keep you interested, Mark Swann is of course gorgeous and amusing and unusually for this type of fiction, someone you feel like you could actually meet in real life(except for the whole director thing, of course) And I especially appreciated the fact that the romance isn't driven by or founded on lust, with love something following almost as an after-thought. Clean, light, and fun, this laugh-out loud summer fling left me in a glow of well-being. A really unusual chick flick that's a good notch above most others in its genre.

a fun read

I personally love Louise Bagshawe. I have read all of her books (by the way it bugs me when they change the titles you think Youppi a new one and then bugger its not) Mondays Child is a fun and entertaining read I really loved Anna. Mark was a great leading man. People in other critics have said that Louise always uses the same formula but in Mondays Child she went for something totally different. It turned out really well. My only negative critic would be the cover It Looks Nothing Like Anna At ALL!!!!!!!!!

Guilty pleasure

The reason this book worked so well for me was the main character, Anna. For some reason, I always like heroines without self-confidence. You root for them, and want them to succeed. Anna is the "dogsbody" for Kitty, a "wasp-waisted woman of a certain age, with a great plastic surgeon, so no one can tell what that age is". Anna's responsible for finding scripts. When Anna does spot a great one, Kitty takes the credit - but Anna catches the eye of Mark Swan, a (fictitious) big-deal UK director. He insists on working with her instead of the other people at Winning Productions. Meanwhile, Anna is reluctantly pulled into a romance with Charles, a member of the landed gentry. Anna's friend fixed them up. While Anna is not attracted to him, and he "doesn't fancy her", they do forge a friendship of sorts, and he supports her in her dream of screenwriting. Meanwhile, Mark insists that she rewrite the script she's been working on, and stops pulling strings for her. The subplot involves Anna's two model flatmates - one a young blonde, the other a 28-year-old brunette who is being forced into catalogue work because of her "old age." The blonde is rather one-note, but the brunette and Anna become friends, and Anna does her an enormous favor in the end. One note: the plot description on the back of the book promises a "madcap scheme" whereby Anna gets what she wants, but there really was no such scheme - on behalf of herself, anyway. I found Anna to be a genuine, kind, funny character. She made the 372 pages worth reading. And yes, she gets some confidence by the end.

A Funny Chick Lit Novel Filled With Interesting Characters

In this book, Louise Bagshawe has created a novel filled with vibrant characters and a suspenseful romantic plot, which I might add kept me reading far into the night. Now, if you think YOU have a pathetic life, try out Anna's, our main heroine: She is a self-admitted "ugly" girl, has an underpaid (albeit interesting, at times) job of reading slush movie scripts, complete with a horrible boss and a lazy, catty coworker who just got promoted over her. Anna also lives with two beautiful models (one of which is very stuck up) and who have no qualms in assuring Anna of how ugly she is. If all of that isn't bad enough, she has just been dumped by her boyfriend Brian, who had suffered from halitosis and questionable body odor. The cherry on the pie is Anna's personality. She is horribly acquiescent - to the point of being a complete pushover. However, her luck is about to change. After her company is taken over by a large corporation, Anna's boss-from-hell Kitty has ordered her to find a movie script that will actually be able to be made into a movie. Anna somehow manages to do that, and manages to find a top-name director to make the movie. This director, the reclusive, handsome and enigmatic Mark Swan, takes an interest in Anna and manages to get her on board with the movie. He also seems rather interested in Anna on a personal level... might it have something to do with her recent makeover? Too bad Anna is convinced that such a handsome guy isn't interested in her. Instead, she gets caught up with Charles, a man who is rich, but with whom she has absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. When he proposes marriage, Anna's life is thrown into a tailspin. And things only get more insane from there... Despite Anna's major character flaws, I got so into the story that I ended up finishing it in one night. The narrative is lively and funny, and some romantic suspense is thrown in for good measure. Lastly, the dialogue that occurs between the many characters is often very humorous. The major downside to this novel was Anna's doormat character, (at least until the part of the book that she finally grows a backbone). People that enjoy assertive characters will absolutely despise Anna in the first half of the book. However, good storytelling makes up for these downfalls. Overall, I definitely recommend giving this book a read. It is a fun, absorbing and interesting novel that one can immerse oneself in for hours.