THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT. By Sidney Sheldon

This is a smashing, brilliant work, with layers upon layers of fine plots and intrigue. But there is one aspect I just cannot understand. Why couldn't Larry Douglas recognise Noelle Page when he later became her main pilot as it were? Yes, he had had countless women over the years, but surely he would remember a woman depicted as incredibly beautiful with especial features...

After all, Ms Page was a gorgeous woman he had lived with in an hotel for quite some time before he disappeared...a woman who just some years later became a global actress always in the media and the like.

Is it really possible that despite the combination of her great beauty allied to her distinctive name and celebrity, Larry would still not recognise her? A woman he had promised to marry...I do not wish to be tedious, but consider it, her startling beauty, her name, their staying together, her becoming a global star still using her real name...Also consider that it was only like after 6 years after they had met that she became world famous. Yet Larry does not have any inkling as to who she is!

In fact the way Ms Page is depicted runs contrary to reality. She is incredibly ruthless and calculating, yet she always comes across to all her lovers over the years as the acme of perfection, a woman all of them can not do without, a sex goddess and domestic servant, and an expert on all subjects to boot.

Of course Larry Douglas is the only man this nonpareil woman cares about. "Noelle was quicksilver a nymph, a genie, a dozen beautiful servants catering to his every wish before he even knew what he wanted" Hmm....

Henry Ozogula