Pillow Talk - Freya North

The sleepwalker. By day, Petra Flint is a talented jeweller working in a lively London studio. By night, she sleepwalks. She has 40 carats of the world's rarest gemstone under her mattress but it's the skeletons in her closet that make it difficult for her to rest. The insomniac.

At one time a promising song-writer, Arlo Savidge now teaches music at a boys' boarding school in North Yorkshire. He assumes he's happy with his isolated lifestyle. But, like Petra, ghosts from his past disturb his sleep. Putting the past to bed. Petra and Arlo loved each other from afar during their schooldays. Now, seventeen years later, in a tiny sweetshop one rainy day, they stand before each other once more. Could this be their second chance?

I used to enjoy Freya North but i feel I may have read one too many of her books and have gone off the author.  I have read this book previously but was given it by a friend so thought I might as well read it again.

This is not one of her better novels and it reads like most of her others. Its very predictable, follows the same pattern of story line as the rest of her books and makes for an OK, Chick Lit book. The only time i would recommend this novel is for a holiday read, where you don't want to think about a novel and you want a nice predictable book to delve into.

The story itself was very predictable (even though I have read it before it was some years ago). The characters themselves are not very deep and don't have much of a personality, and although their was some comical bits in this book it was not greatly amusing. However the style of writing makes this book very easy to read, and to get through rather quickly.