Archive for August 17th, 2009

The Truth About Melody Browne is Lisa Jewell’s seventh novel and is a complete departure from her usual works. Aged 9, Melody lost everything in a house fire - all of her material possessions.

But she also lost something more - her memory of the previous 9 years. Now in her thirties, with a teenage son, she goes out on a date one night to see a hypnotist.

After bringing her up on stage and hypnotising her, Melody collapses and it causes her memories to start coming back slowly and she begins to piece together exactly what happened in the first 9 years of her life…

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Liane Moriarty’s third novel, What Alice Forgot, is due for release on 10th June 2010 by Penguin and sounds like a very interesting read - kind of like Sophie Kinsella’s book Remember Me?:

Remember the woman you used to be … Alice is twenty-nine. She is whimsical, optimistic and adores sleep, chocolate, her ramshackle new house and her wonderful husband Nick. What’s more, she’s looking forward to the birth of the ‘Sultana’ – her first baby. But now Alice has slipped and hit her head in her step-aerobics class and everyone’s telling her she’s misplaced the last ten years of her life.

In fact, it would seem that Alice is actually thirty-nine and now she loves schedules, expensive lingerie, caffeine and manicures. She has three children and the honeymoon is well and truly over for her and Nick. In fact, he looks at her like she’s his worst enemy. What’s more, her beloved sister Elisabeth isn’t speaking to her either. And who is this ‘Gina’everyone is so carefully trying not to mention? Alice isn’t sure that she likes life ten years on.

Every photo is another memory she doesn’t have and nothing makes sense. Just how much can happen in a decade? Has she really lost her lovely husband for ever? What Alice Forgot is a novel with a tremendous heart about the enormity of all the things that can happen to a person in ten years. It’s a story about mothers and daughters, sisters and friends, husbands and wives, and of how you should never lose sight of the people that you love.

Annie Rafferty is a woman who has it all. She’s just got the job of Deputy Editor at Glo! Magazine, has just bought a big house with long-term boyfriend Nick and life is all rosy.

But soon Annie’s world is about to come crashing down around her when Nick resigns from his job, leaving her with the bills, a depressed sister and nagging parents who don’t think she should have to be the bread-winner.

But Annie soon discovers who she really is, and ends up going in a totally different direction…

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