Archive for September 21st, 2009

Four years ago Georgie and Flick started a business called Domestic Angels which does everything from replacing dead hamsters to dyeing pets to match their owners’ clothes.

One night though, Domestic Angels turns into Avenging Angels when Flick and Georgie agree to help a woman get revenge on her cheating husband. From then on, the girls get more requests to help out wronged wives until finally a wronged husband wants his own back.

Can the girls wriggle out of it scot-free?

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Sarah May’s books are billed as black-hearted soap operas and her latest, The Rise & Fall of the Wonder Girl’s, sounds as if it’ll follow the same track as her previous two. It’s due for release on November 29th and here is the synopsis:

Four teenage girls - Grace, Vicky, Ruth and Saskia - all at the same school; all with the same secret. October. Burwood. The corridors of Burwood Girls School are once more full of oestrogen; Platform number one at Burwood Station is packed with commuters waiting for delayed trains to London; the gym at Oasis Leisure centre is full of fading tans while leaves fall and pile up on lawns ripe for raking.

Just like any other October. Until life gets turned inside out in this affluent South-eastern town when not one but four teenage girls fall pregnant. As the media descends on Burwood with unprecedented ferocity, headlines such as: WHO ARE THE BABIES’ FATHERS? DO ALL FOUR BABIES SHARE THE SAME FATHER? GIRLS REVEAL PREGNANCIES WEREN’T ACCIDENTAL! ARE THE BURWOOD GIRLS PART OF A TEENAGE PREGNANCY CULT? !at first seem to corrupt this small, leafy, affluent community until we realise that the corruption was there all along, bubbling just beneath the surface.

Before things get better, they’re going to get much, much worse. But then, at the end of the day, the last thing anyone in Burwood wants is life to return to normal.

Bapsy Jain has her debut novel out next year, and I think it sounds fascinating. Lucky Every Day is out on 7th January 2010 through Penguin, and sounds like the sort of thing I’d like to read. Here’s the synopsis:

“Lately, Lucky’s life has seen nothing but trouble. Her marriage to the wealthy and charming Vikram ended badly, and along with it, her career as a successful entrepreneur. It’s time for her to start over and Lucky is more than ready to move on. So Lucky goes to New York where her quest to get her life back on track begins with promise. A voluntary assignment as yoga instructor brings her some new and unusual friends, and a chance encounter with her old friend, Amay, makes her realize that a second chance at love might just be possible. And when she finds a job with an old associate, she can’t help but think that leaving Bombay was the best decision she ever made. But a series of dramas leaves Lucky feeling betrayed and looking for answers yet again. Her new life may not be everything she thought it was but she soon learns that only she has the power to change her destiny.”