Book News: No Way To Say Goodbye by Anna McPartlin
Anna McPartlin’s newest book No Way To Say Goodbye is due for release on 28th January 2010 and has a beautiful cover (designed by Jenny Lloyd, who also has some lovely backgrounds). It also sounds like a fabulous read:
To outsiders it looks as if Mary was born unlucky, but deep down she believes in a happy ending. She just needs someone to remind her.And Sam looks like a waster and a disappointment. The man who had it all and then threw it all away. He needs a fresh start.
Penny is the life and soul of every party. She’s also a drunk and some would say a home wrecker. She needs someone to understand her. Ivan’s a sucker. A man who still cares about the woman who broke his heart and took his children from him. He needs to be brave.
And Adam is in a loveless marriage and cheating on his wife, though only he knows why he married the wrong woman. He needs a wake-up call.
For these five souls change is going to come, and, when it does, they all get more than they bargained for.
This novel tells us the story of Jo Hill, a young girl whose dream is to work for a national glossy magazine as a journalist, but she is sure her appearance is going to stop her dream from becoming a reality. We first join the book when Jo is a schoolgirl taking her A-Levels at a posh school, although she is a London girl from near Peckham. Jo loves reading her magazines, eating chocolate bars and generally hiding herself away from the other girls, and gets a shock when her A-Levels do not go her way. Jo has to get a job working in a cafe, until her friend Amelia helps her out with a job at a restaurant.
