Archive for May 19th, 2009

Another cover I’ve come across today is the cover for Bridie Clark’s second novel The Overnight Socialite. The synopsis reads:

Set in contemporary Manhattan, The Overnight Socialite is the story of a shy, young Midwesterner named Lucy Ellis who is transformed into a sophisticated socialite by Wyatt Hayes, a dashing but arrogant man-about-town who is convinced he can turn anyone even the most awkward wallflower into this year’s “it” girl. The Overnight Socialite tells a timeless story of transformation and unlikely love set against a contemporary backdrop.

I really like the sound of the book. It’s out on December 16th.

Carole Matthew’s latest novel, That Loving Feeling is released on the 17th September and the shiny cover has been revealed. I absolutely love this cover and can’t wait for the book. The synopsis reads

Juliet Joyce has been happily married for twenty-five years. But with two grown-up children who treat the house like a hotel, a seventy-year-old mother who’s just moved in and a father who’s announced he’s gay it’s hardly surprising that her relationship with her husband Rick is beginning to suffer.

Juliet’s resigned to the fact that the only romance she’s going to get is from the pages of her library books, so nothing prepares her for the unexpected return of Steven Aubrey. Last seen twenty-six years ago, when he jilted Juliet on their wedding day, he ignites a passion in her that she thought was long gone. But will Steven sweep her off her feet or can Rick remind her of the loving feeling that they’ve lost? There’s only one way to find out..

Poppy Norton is a bit of a cliché, even she admits it. She was unlucky in love until she met News Presenter, father of 3 Luke Norton. The two begin a relationship on the sly, and accidentally Poppy falls pregnant.

Luke decides to leave his wife Hannah to set up home with Poppy but soon finds out life with a young model and their newborn daughter doesn’t quite match up to his twenty-year marriage. Fast forward 2 years, and Poppy’s fed up of being ignored and left at home with daughter Clara so looks for a job herself.

Things are not rosy in the Norton garden, but are they going to get better or worse?

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American author Katherine Center is back with her second novel, Everyone is Beautiful, and it is to be released on 11th June and looks to be a great read. I thoroughly enjoyed Katherine’s debut novel The Bright Side of Disaster about a new mum and her baby being abandoned by the man in their life, and this one looks to continue the theme of finding yourself in the face of unexpected shock. Here’s the synopsis:

“Piling everything she owns into her car, Lanie leaves family and friends behind - all so her husband can realise his dreams of becoming a professional musician. But, somewhere in the eye of her personal hurricane, it hits Lanie that she once had dreams too. If only she could remember what they were. Fifteen years, three babies, and more pounds than she’s willing to count after she said ‘I do’, Lanie longs desperately to feel like her old self again. It’s time to fish her va-va-voom out of the nappy bin and find the woman she was before motherhood capsized her existence - harder said than done, when by finding herself she seems to be losing everything else in the process.”

Published by Piatkus, it’s out next month so look out for it in the shops then!