Archive for June, 2009

Daisy has been dumped, unceremoniously jilted. Not by any ordinary guy, no…Daisy has a secret in her past that she won’t even tell her best friend, Holly. She’s given up on men – and on her own family. But life still has to be lived and where better to recover than as far away from home as possible.

Grabbing a chance to see the world, Daisy packs her bags and joins the team catering to the world’s highest-paid, supercharged racing drivers on the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. From Brazil to Italy, from Melbourne to Monte Carlo, life passes in a dizzying whirlwind.

But nothing – and no one – can stop Daisy from falling again…this time for a man who is prepared to risk his life, and his heart, for the sake of speed, danger and ultimate success.

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Rachel Covington works as a Sales Rep for a holidays company, and is one of the top performers in her section. She knows that she’s quite attractive and uses it to her advantage to get the men she wants, them dumps them when she’s had enough.

But Rachel finds herself in a role reversal when she’s realises she’s fallen for Nick Maxwell, a colleague at her company. The two have a dalliance together and the result is Rachel’s life changing forever…courtesty of the baby growing inside of her.

Will Rachel be able to give up her beloved single life to become a mother?

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Sarah Strohmeyer’s eleventh novel, The Penny Pinchers Club, is out on July 2nd. I haven’t read any of Sarah Strohmeyer’s novels but I’ll be looking out for this one as it sounds great:

Living in New Jersey - the state that boasts the most malls per capita - Kat’s favorite recreational activity is a no-brainer: shopping. But when she discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. Are their fights about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest, preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it’s time to start saving.

Drastic times call for drastic measures: Kat starts by canceling cable and kicking her $240-a-month Starbucks habit. But what starts out as a simple effort to cut costs becomes an over-the-top obsession when Kat joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called the Penny Pinchers Club. Soon she is pumping her gas at dawn (when it is thicker) and serving dinner made from food she retrieved at the grocery store dumpster. Kat is saving money, to be sure, but what she’s really saving is time - time she spends with Griff, their two kids . . . and an old flame who resurfaces at precisely the wrong moment, offering Kat a life where money is no object.

Also her previous novel, The Cinderella Pact, will be made into a Lifetime movie starring Poppy Montgomery (whom you may have seen on Without A Trace).

Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone - not from her boyfriend James, as she fondly hopes, but from a woman claiming to have slept with him four times in the past month. Trapped on the plane, she questions everything about her relationship with James.

She finally calls him and he reassures her: it was only his mates playing a silly joke. James is a lawyer, persuasive and gorgeous and Lucy adores him. So why, at the wedding in Sydney of her best friend Molly, does she have niggling doubts, and find herself attracted to Molly’s brother-in-law Nathan? The sooner she gets back to her regular life in London, the flat she shares with James, her job in PR, the better.

Nathan is a happy-go-lucky surfer boy, with no prospects, no place to live, an almost-girlfriend in tow. And the other side of the world…Lucy - a girl caught between two distant continents - and two very different men…

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Jane Meadows is a mum - and a shoe addict. Jane loves all things shoes, she has hundreds of pairs in her cupboards and has learnt to judge everyone by the shoes that they wear. But when baby Millie is born, shoes take a back seat to sleep and just getting through the day.

Her friends Liz and Rachel can’t understand how Jane has let herself go, but Jane’s passion is relit when best friend Fi falls in love with a shoe designer. Is Jane going to make anything of her new-found hobby? And will Jane be able to save her flailing marriage from going underfoot, or have Jane and baby Millie got to put their best feet forward alone?

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Author Matt Dunn first came to my attention when I read his hilarious novel “From Here to Paternity” on holiday in Mauritius a few years ago. Since then, I’ve also read “The Ex-Boyfriend’s Handbook” and its sequel “Ex-Girlfriends United” which were both absolutely brilliant! Matt writes books centred around male characters, and the stories are packed with humour and brilliant characters. Here’s a bit about the man himself taken from his website:

“I was born in Margate, but escaped to London and then Málaga (which is in Spain, for those of you who didn’t pay attention in geography class), where I worked as a newspaper columnist and played a lot of tennis. I now live back in London, but spend a lot of time in Spain, where I’m writing my fifth novel and still playing a lot of tennis (although not at the same time, obviously).

Previously I’ve worked as a professional lifeguard, fitness-equipment salesman, and lastly an I.T. headhunter, where my success in re-writing other peoples’ CVs made me think I might have a talent for fiction.”

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Lara Lington is fairly happy with her life - she part-owns a (sort of) successful Recruitment business, and is determined to get ex-boyfriend Josh back. What she doesn’t count on is the ghost of her recently deceased 105 year old Great Aunt Sadie to suddenly appear in her life and shake up everything Lara thought she knew.

Sadie can’t help but interfere in Lara’s life, and is determined that she won’t disappear until Lara has found one of her old pieces of jewellery. Lara decides she has to find the jewellery if she is to get rid of Sadie asap, but she doesn’t count on becoming quite fond of Sadie. Together the pair set off on a treasure hunt, but uncover a lot more than what they expected. But will Lara be able to let go of Sadie for good?

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Trisha Ashley, in case you haven’t read any of her books, is the author of 9 contemporary novels. Her latest, Wedding Tiers, was reviewed by me a few weeks ago and I loved it and highly recommend it. Her next novel is due out early next year.

1. Describe your latest novel in a sentence.

Josie makes weird and wonderful wedding cakes while living a rural life of self-sufficient bliss with her childhood sweetheart, artist Ben - until their fairytale relationship turns into a nightmare and she becomes love’s number one cynic.

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