It is quite possible that this book is an ironic poststructuralist commentary on aspects of modern romantic fiction but, then again, it might just be another funny story about how girl loses her man by mistake and then finds him again. Whatever, it’s quite funny.

The central character Kate is organising a bachelorette party for her and her three friends, Siobhan, Natalie and Chloe, in Las Vegas a week before her wedding which already sounds slightly risky! Her husband to be, Norman, is worried about the whole event but he is clearly a dull compromise after Kate was deceived by the love of her life.

So, if you know this kind of fiction, there’s not much doubt about who is going to turn up in Las Vegas, although the circumstances are pretty far-fetched as are subsequent events. Needless to say, it all gets sorted out in the end but it is a wild ride.

Kate’s friends indulge throughout the novel in vulgar innuendo, there’s lots of alcohol and the mechanism by which the story unravels allows for a good deal of incidental Vegas travelogue! If you don’t take it too seriously, or worry if it has any relationship to Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, it’s both entertaining and an excellent read.