Archive for August 3rd, 2009

Living in Paris with her partner, the workaholic Mr Frog, and their adorable toddler, Tadpole, Catherine decides to alleviate the boredom of her metro-boulot-dodo routine by starting a blog under the name of Petite Anglaise. As she lays herself bare about the confines of her stagnant relationship with Mr Frog, about Paris life and about the wonder and pain that comes with being a mother, she finds a new purpose to her day.

As Petite Anglaise, Catherine regains her confidence and makes internet friends, including one charismatic and single Englishman who lives in Brittany, James. And after meeting James one evening in a bar, Catherine feels she has regained her ability to fall in love, too.

Petite Anglaise weaves together many strands which have already struck a chord with the thousands of readers who love her blog: a “fish out of water” perspective of Paris life, the raw emotional drama of a whirlwind, adulterous romance and an honest appreciation of the hardships of single motherhood.

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It came to our attention on Friday that Jane Beaton, author of Class and Rules, could well be a pseudonym for a well-known chick lit author. We also have proof so we’re fairly sure but we don’t want to break an author’s pseudonym unless they are aware.

I admit it came as a surprise to me to learn Jane Beaton was a pseudonym but thinking about it I can totally believe that it is, as I can’t find ANY information on Jane Beaton and that screams “psuedonym!”

So, who do YOU think Jane Beaton really is?

Holly has always known she was adopted by her parents, Maureen and Harry Bennett when she was a baby. But when her beloved mother dies, Holly decides she wants to know more about her biological mother, even though she doesn’t know where to start. Her sisters Jess and Grace are a bit opposed to the search, but eventually come around when she meets Private Investigator Phil Connell.

Together the pair set out to find Holly’s mum so she can put together the pieces of her life, but is it just going to be Holly’s roots that the pair discover? Can the Bennett family help not only Holly in her quest, but each other in their own times of woe?

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American author Theresa Rebeck hits British shores this October with her new book Twelve Rooms With A View. The book looks like a fun read about inheritance, family feuds and fighting for what is yours, and is due out on 29th October, published by Harper. Here’s the full synopsis:

“When a rich man you never knew dies and his opulent apartment is left to you, you’d think it was the answer to your dreams. But perhaps it is the start of a living nightmare…Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Or is it? Tina Finn was standing at the edge of her mother’s newly-dug grave when she first heard about her inheritance. Until this moment she’d been scraping by, living from one pay cheque to the next. But all that was about to change! Now she’s the proud owner of a huge luxury apartment overlooking Central Park. Things couldn’t get much better, right? Wrong. Her half brothers, left out of the inheritance, think that she has no right to the apartment and they want her out - by any means necessary. So that’s how Tina went from standing on the edge of her mother’s grave to squatting in a twelve room apartment in the centre of New York. Now she has it all, is she prepared to fight to the end to keep it?”