I normally just lurk on this thread but I did find this.... Sorry if this has been posted already. It is a book with a character named Anna Waters...
Anna Waters is the main character and narrator is an eternal teenager. As the daughter of a child prodigy and Nobel Prize winner she had an intensive education but had no emotional support and no childhood or adolescence so is living out her lost youth now. She is man mad but can not get emotionally attached.
Lady Harriet Moresby is the poor little rich girl. Raised as the daughter of a Duke and her saintly well loved by the public Godiva Fawcett she is rebelling but becoming a 'Trustifarian;. She does experimental art, lives an old industrial space in the middle of prime real estate and dabbles with minimum wage jobs. She is like the girl Common People was written about. She's the character you think you might hate but you don't She finds it hard to get emotionally attached as she fears people only want to know her for her mother. She had a real love-hate relatio nship
with her mother being dragged around the world
and used as a photo opportunity. She craved the real love of her mother and still does not like anyone sharing in her grief.
The two share a flat, work as waitresses in a boarding school themed restaurant and share each other's lives. You know the type of girls they are. I know two sets of them. They are always seen together, have their own language, almost their own little world. Their friendship is so strong it is almost like a platonic love affair.
The other character that I think is worth mentioning is Grace Waters. She is cold, clinical and not interested in Anna as a person unless Anna is the person that Grace wants Anna to be. I think she is a masterpiece. She is almost monstrous, but there is a side of her you feel real pity.
Other things I lied about the book was the parody of theme bars. There are several in this book with gimmicky interiors, and standard cocktails named to fit in with the theme of the bar. I thought this was nice touch.
It took me about a week to read this book but I was hooked and was dying o know how it ends, as unlike a fluffy chick lit book I had no idea what the ending was going to be like.
I would really recommend you buy this book if you like Kate Atkinson but don't be put off by the terrible front cover.
It is available in all good bookshops priced £6.99
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/virtue-serena-mackesy/416029/
