Archive for September 14th, 2009

Mary Kersey is trying to juggle working in the City with being a good mum and a good wife as well as keeping the home they live in liveable.

Alan Dove, an ambitious CEO of a biotechnology company, decides to buy up another company along with the help of Ivan, an investment banker and a dodgy hedge-fund investor, Mary is thrust into the world of scandal as she believes something is wrong with the way Alan and co. took over F-ACE.

Trouble is, not everybody is happy with her interfering ways…

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Irish author Claire Allan recently caught my eye when I read her second book, Feels Like Maybe. I loved it, and was excited to see that Claire has another book out this month, Jumping In Puddles. Claire was nice enough to grant us an author interview and we chatted about her experience of motherhood, where she gets her ideas and her new book too! Read on…

1. Tell us about your latest book in a sentence.
Feels Like Maybe is all about friendship, babies, infertility, sexy gardeners and feckwit exes.

2. In ‘Feels Like Maybe’, you approach the journey of motherhood from two very different viewpoints. How much did you draw on your own personal experience to write these storylines and characters?
Aoife’s birth scene was scarily like my own first time around - although I did have my husband standing beside me.
I think experiences of motherhood, especially in those early days are universal in a lot of respects. You feel sore, exhausted, paranoid about your appearance and yet a little blissed out by your knew baby. With Beth’s story I spoke to several woman who had experienced or were experiencing fertility problems to make sure I set the tone just right. My first book ‘Rainy Days and Tuesdays’ examines post natal depression - and I did use my own experience to write that.

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I read my first novel by Tess Stimson last year, The Cradle Snatcher, and loved it. We’ve noticed that Tess has her next book up for pre-order on Amazon which is released on 2nd April 2010 and is called What Your’s Is Mine. Tess’s books are always chick lit with a real edge, and this one sounds really exciting as well. Here’s the synopsis:

“Like a princess in a fairytale, Grace Hamilton has been showered with blessings: professional success, a happy marriage, and she even lives in a beautiful castle. But the only thing she really wants - her heart’s desire - is the one thing she can never have. Her sister, the beautiful Susannah, has made a mess of her life. Like a reverse Midas, everything she touches turns to shit. But the Fate puts Grace’s future in Susannah’s hands, changing the balance of power between the sisters forever. “

We’ve still got a long way to go, but I can’t wait!