--- product_id: 197289125 title: "Dune Road: A Novel" brand: "viking" price: "£4.41" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 18 category: "Book" url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/197289125-dune-road-a-novel store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Dune Road: A Novel **Brand:** viking **Price:** £4.41 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Dune Road: A Novel by viking - **How much does it cost?** £4.41 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/197289125-dune-road-a-novel) ## Best For - viking enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted viking brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Dune Road: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51vw7asqNsL.jpg) ![Dune Road: A Novel - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31Jwwh2n9wL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ STARTING OVER *by L***W on Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016* Kit Hargrove is starting over. After her divorce from Adam, a Wall Street executive, she sells the big fancy house in Highfield, Connecticut, and settles comfortably into a smaller Cape Cod in another part of town. Her two children, Tory, 13, and Buckley, 8, show some signs of the stress of transition, but other than the usual issues, they seem to be doing fine.She hasn’t downsized to poverty…she is just not in the same social set. But Kit never enjoyed that scene anyway. She takes a job as an assistant to a best-selling author, Robert McClore, and finds a new mother figure in her next-door neighbor Edie. She still regularly socializes with her best friend Charlie, even though Charlie is still married and living in the big house.Then along comes Tracy, and this is where things start getting interesting. Tracy seems like a con artist to me, and she is making some very questionable moves. What will we learn about her?A new man suddenly pops up…compliments of Tracy pointing him out. Is there more to this story?What appeared to be just the usual novel about new beginnings starts to take on a different premise, as more and more unexpected events are triggered, and Kit’s new life begins unfolding in unpredictable ways.How do secrets from Kit’s mother’s past suddenly reveal themselves and begin to change everything Kit thought she knew about her and about her own life?The characters that populate Dune Road: A Novel were interesting, like real people who do annoying things to one another, while keeping potentially dangerous secrets. We see their vulnerabilities, their flaws, and watch how they deal with financial set-backs in the worst economic downturn in recent history. They are forced to question their attitudes, beliefs, and plans, and they must struggle to redefine who they are. The conclusion left me with a feeling of positivity. 4.5 stars. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Utterly banal: 2.5 stars *by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2009* After reading Jane Green's books for many years, and finding the last two or three to be disappointing, I picked up Dune Road hoping that she had somehow managed to find a trace of the flair she displayed in her earliest offerings, such as the delightful Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans and thoughtful Bookends: A Novel. Instead of a lively and punchy chick lit work, however, I found myself reading the most banal novel full of the most irritating and dithering female characters it has ever been my misfortune to encounter in a novel with a contemporary setting; I wanted to pick most of them up and shake them until their hair was less than perfect and their gleaming teeth rattled at least slightly.Kit is divorced from her Wall Street banker husband because, it seems, she couldn't find a better way to stop herself from being transformed into the kind of trophy wife he wanted. (It's no secret, from the earliest pages, that he still hankers after her and he's really her soul mate.) Her closest friend, meanwhile, after happily becoming a consumer goddess, is angry at her husband for mismanaging their finances and allowing her to become that woman. Leaving aside the issue of whether either woman is interesting or appealing enough to identify with, there's the bigger one of whether they are realistic. In this reader's opinion, both are cardboard cutout characters and Green's half-hearted efforts to transform their lifestyles into lives by whipping up such drama as a mother's conflict with her daughter over borrowed clothes are just absurd and, ultimately, dull as ditchwater.There is a plot and an underlying theme of sorts to this, but both are a bit absurd in both nature and execution. The theme -- how well do we really know the people we have in our lives or who we encounter -- is at the heart of the plot, which revolves around the somewhat mysterious Tracy, owner of the yoga center that both Kit and Charlie, her friend, attend. (There's also a subplot involving a mysterious sister of one of the characters, who may or may not be what she seems, and a suitor for one of them, ditto.) Through in a reclusive thriller writer, apparently tormented by the death of his wife 30 years earlier; a warm, wise and witty elderly neighbor and surrogate grandmother living next door to Kit, etc. etc -- and you still have a novel about not much in particular, going nowhere in particular. The plot -- which doesn't get going until halfway through the book -- has all twists and turns telegraphed well in advance. It was only sheer stubborness that got me to the final page.There are authors who have written wonderful domestic novels, from Jane Austen onward. Those stories rely as much on compelling character portrayals more than drama in the plot. Chick lit, I'd argue, is characterized more by predictable character types set in plot dilemmas that while recognizable, never become so predictable that the reader can see what will happen next. This book doesn't succeed on either front. Jane Green is no Jane Austen; she can't write about character development, even if her characters developed. (They don't; they meander and drift and ponder, endlessly.) The writing is as tedious and meandering as her characters' musings; such plot as exists isn't the kind that will keep you turning the pages to see what happens. It's a story about characters who just seem to dither, to whom things happen. When I compare that to her previous novels, whose characters acted, reflected and changed their own lives, this is deeply disappointing.Coming from an author whose work I'd never read before, this would earn 2 stars; because Green can do and has done far better when she's put her mind to it, I'm giving this 2.5 stars and even rounding it up. But I'd suggest it only as a beach read -- and then only if you've borrowed it from a library. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Timely Subject Matter *by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2009* Dune Road is the third Jane Green novel I have read. Yes, the book is a great beach read for women who wish to fantasize about living in tony neighboor hoods; Nantucket, Gold Coast of CT or the North Shore of Boston. The characters in every good chick lit have only two good female friends and at least one is related somehow to a celebrity. Dune Road is no different but Ms. Green hits upon a subject close to my real life; a spouse who loses is great job.The main character Kit's best friend,Charlie's husband loses his job in our most recent recession and the family's wealth. Charlie's social circle begins to shrink just as her friend Kit's circle did when she divorced. Woman in a small wealthy community will stop inviting people who are divorced or no longer weathly to their social gatherings plus gossip about "those poor souls". This portion of the novel is painfully a correct depiction of the behavior of some weathly suburban women.The character development of the four main characters; Kit, Tracy, Robert and Charlie never gave me a sense of who they really were...good, bad, etc. Tracy behavior was understandable but why on earth did she let Jed back into her life? Being an abused woman in the past, I stay as far away as possible from my abuser. Jed is the typical sociopath who loves only himself and hates all women and Tracy seems to be intelligent enough to stay away.Dune Road is an enjoyable story if not a great novel. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/197289125-dune-road-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/197289125-dune-road-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-18*