Archive for August 19th, 2009

Tormented by the belief that her husband is cheating on her, Vicky plans a dangerous course of revenge. She’s determined to make him pay. As the line dividing reality and paranoia blurs, the voices in her head threaten to push her one step too far.

Deceiving her boss was never part of Ariel’s plan. Now she is being accused of gross incompetence but she cannot tell him the bizarre truth. Why should he believe her when the one person she always relies on has shut the door firmly in her face? Unaware that she has a secret admirer, Ariel has never felt more alone.

Working side by side each day, neither knows what’s going on in the other’s head. Will they break their silence in time to prevent destruction and tragedy?

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Jenny Colgan’s next novel The Good, The Bad & The Dumped is due for release on 13th May 2010 and sounds like a fab read:

Posy is delighted when Matt proposes - on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But the next morning disaster strikes: he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy starts thinking.

Why has her love life always, always ended in total disaster? Determined to discover how she got to this point, Posy resolves to track down her exes …

Is there hope for Matt, or will she fall back in love with an old flame? What about Lord Voldemort, the old boyfriend that cannot be named? And could Posy face up to the idea that, actually, one day she could live life on her own terms?

Vintage follows three women who enter the man’s world of wine-making, well champagne making to be exact. Madeleine Arsenault is the daughter of a French champagne-maker, and is left his vineyard when he dies. Madeleine wants to produce a vintage wine of her own, and is determined to prove her critics, who don’t believe a woman can create a great wine, wrong and to rise to the top of her game.

Kelly Elson, a chambermaid in a hotel is also left a vineyard in a will, but unlike Madeleine, she doesn’t want anything to do with it. Under the guidance of trustee Hilarian and and vineyard keeper Guy, she decides maybe there is something to be done in the wine business after all.

Finally, we have Christina Morgan, an American supermodel whose marriage is in tatters, much like her career. Christina only takes on the vineyard as she has nothing else to do, but quickly realises she enjoys the work of making a new bottle of wine, and is determined to make a success of her vineyard.

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