Archive for September 15th, 2009

No this isn’t a chick lit book but you’ll be hard pressed to find people who hate Ant & Dec. Their auto-biography is out today and is called Ooh! What A Lovely Pair. I can’t wait to get my hands on it as I love the two of them. Here’s the synopsis:

This is the book everyone has been waiting for: national heroes Ant and Dec, Britain’s most successful television duo, have invited their millions of fans into their world. From youth clubs to blind school, pubs to jungles, there’s a wealth of behind-the-scenes anecdotes that have never been told until now. Ant and Dec met when they were thirteen on the set of Byker Grove in Newcastle.

They didn’t warm to each other immediately, but soon enough they became best mates and have been inseparable both on and off screen ever since. Bad rap, stunts going wrong, schoolboy pranks and off-screen antics are just some of the experiences they write about in this wonderfully entertaining memoir.

Eve has never imagined herself as a Step-mother, but that’s exactly what she becomes when she falls in love with widow Ian. He comes complete with 3 children, and it’s Eve’s worst nightmare… not to mention the fact that the ghost of his wife is hanging over Eve’s every move. Her best friend Clare is having problems of her own with her teenage daughter Lou, but she still wants to be there for Clare. Lily is Clare’s younger sister and also in love with someone who has a child, but Lily isn’t too afraid of being a step-mother. The 3 women need each other and decide to set up The Step-Mothers Support Group, and recruit a few other mothers for coffee, chat and friendship. But when things all come crashing down around them, can the step-mothers overcome the past as well as their uncertain futures?

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Mink Elliott was the Deputy Editor of Practical Parenting magazine (I loved this mag by the way) and has now turned her hand to writing novels. The Pissed-Off Parents Club is her first book and its due out on 21st January 2010, and sounds like a brilliant read… and it’s one I can relate too… will it make me want to start my own club?! Here’s the synopsis:

“First-time mum Roxy feels perennially ticked off. She and her partner Jack have left London for a new life in the village of Riverside, with their ten-month-old daughter Joey. But their new house resembles a building site and Roxy is struggling to cope with parenthood. With no family or friends to turn to for help, Roxy sets up a club in order to meet like-minded parents, and so begins The Pissed-Off Parents Club. Hilarious and refreshingly original, this is a story telling it like it is — for mums and dads of all descriptions.”