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Sundays at Tiffany’s

James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet
Little, Brown and Company (2008)
ISBN 9780316014779
Reviewed by Narayan Radhakrishnan for RebeccasReads (5/08)

If you are reading at least six books a year of any author, and that one fresh title each six months or so, I tell you, you are bound to be tired. Most authors are home in their own neat territory of style and suspense. How would you feel if you are forced to read a new legal thriller by Grisham, every two months or a horror thriller from Stephen King each fortnight? It’s going to become tiresome. But tiresome is a word which you do not associate with James Patterson. I read “7th Heaven” in February, “Sail” a couple of weeks back, and now this one, “Sundays at Tiffany’s.” But the style, the writing nature, even the print format is so different it is difficult to believe that all were penned by the same author. “7th Heaven” is a murder-suspense story, “Sail” is an adventure thriller, while “Sundays at Tiffany’s” is a feel-good romantic thriller, and each book is as different as chalk, salt and scissors.
                                                       
Imaginary friends of children and their mysterious relationship is the topic of Patterson’s new work. But what would happen if these friends are anything but imaginary and the child is really seeing them, talking with them, confiding in them? Michael is one such imaginary friend, and Jane Margaux adored him. But soon after she turned nine, the friend left her, though his thoughts still remained. Twenty-one years later Margaux is a sensational playwright and her drama about a little girl and her imaginary friend is a huge success… soon to be a major motion picture. But on the personal front, Jane is still lonely and when Michael returns to her life, things seem back to normal. But is Jane truly seeing and feeling Michael, or is he still a figment of her imagination?

The author toys with the reader until the very end, and without being a spoilsport let me say one thing: I felt really, really good and wonderful after reading “Sundays at Tiffany’s.”  And wouldn’t you agree that Brad Pitt would be a perfect Michael? Is Hollywood listening?

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