Juliet and Rick Joyce have been married for 25 years but they feel as if the spark is burning out.
Not only that but Juliet’s mother and father have just separated and her mother has decided she wants to live with the Joyce’s; Juliet & Rick’s two children are beyond spoilt; and Juliet’s father has announced he’s gay.
Throw in Steven Aubrey, the man who jilted Juliet at the altar 26 years ago, and there’s bound to be trouble.
Muriel Zagha’s debut novel, Finding Monsieur Right, is due out on the 21st of January 2010 and it’ll be one I’ll be keeping my eye out for as it sounds like a fab read:
This is a tale of two cities…two girls…and a life-altering swap.
Daisy’s just landed the perfect job: spending a year in Paris writing about fashion. Swapping homes with French student Isabelle seems like the perfect arrangement. Sensible Isabelle, however, finds London bewildering.
But all her assumptions about crazy English guys are overturned when she meets hunky gardener Tom. Meanwhile, fun-loving Daisy discovers that Paris is the City of Love, and more than one Monsieur Right…
Posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by Chloe
Abby McDonald’s debut novel The Popularity Rules is due out at the end of this month on 25th September, and it is a great read (review coming on Friday), but in the mean time here’s something new for you. The author Abby took to the streets of London armed with a video camera and asked us normal women whether we know anything about ‘popularity rules’.
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?
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.”
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…
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.
Since November 2009
Juliet and Rick Joyce have been married for 25 years but they feel as if the spark is burning out. 
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Muriel Zagha’s debut novel, Finding Monsieur Right, is due out on the 21st of January 2010 and it’ll be one I’ll be keeping my eye out for as it sounds like a fab read:
Abby McDonald’s debut novel The Popularity Rules is due out at the end of this month on 25th September, and it is a great read (review coming on Friday), but in the mean time here’s something new for you. The author Abby took to the streets of London armed with a video camera and asked us normal women whether we know anything about ‘popularity rules’.
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:
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. 
