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Book News: What's Yours is Mine by Tess Stimson

Posted on Monday, September 14th, 2009 by Chloe

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!

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Book Cover: Housewife in Trouble by Alison Penton Harper

Posted on Saturday, September 12th, 2009 by Leah

Alison Penton Harper’s fifth book in the ongoing Housewife series, Housewife in Trouble, will be released on 5th February 2010. It follows Housewife Down, Housewife Up, Housewife on Top and Housewife in Love. The synopsis reads:

Helen has done the one thing she swore she never would: remarry. A few weeks after the drive-thru’ ceremony, the reality of it comes over her like a python dropping out of a tree - that she would henceforth wake up every morning next to snoring rhinoceros Rick, a man with all the subtleties of a brick coming through your living room window.

Under the questionable tutelage of crazy Leoni, Helen vows to reinvent herself as a guilt-free, modern Superwife, and determines to master the innocent art of womanly deception. Meanwhile, big sister Julia, 43, suffers a major crash-and-burn after the miraculous arrival of her new baby. Desperate to help her navigate a severe case of post-natal depression, Helen suddenly finds herself knee-deep in subterfuge …

And that, possibly, is what distracts her when Helga, the Russian cleaning lady, attacks Rick with a chair …So there we have it. An Elvis wedding in Vegas. A panic-stricken newlywed wife. A severely concussed husband who cannot keep a secret. What could possibly go wrong? Bags open. Cats everywhere. As Elvis said, ‘If you’re looking for trouble, you’ve come to the right place‘

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Book Review: When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Posted on Friday, September 11th, 2009 by Leah

When Nathan McCann discovers a newborn baby boy half buried in the woods, he assumes he’s found a tiny dead body. But then the baby moves and in one remarkable moment, Nathan’s life is changed forever.

The baby is sent to grow up with his grandmother, but Nathan can’t forget him and is compelled to pay her a visit. He asks for one simple promise - that one day she will introduce the boy to Nathan and tell him, ‘This is the man who found you in the woods.’

Years pass and Nathan assumes that the old lady has not kept her promise, until one day an angry, troubled boy arrives on his doorstep with a suitcase…

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Posted in 2009 Releases, Book Reviews, Rating: 5/5 | 4 Comments »

Book Cover: Recipe For Scandal by Debby Holt

Posted on Friday, September 11th, 2009 by Leah

Debby Holt’s next book Recipe For Scandal is due out on 7th January 2010 and the cover has finally been released. I have to say I really like it. The book also sounds intereting:

Living with her partner, Tony, his parents and their precocious teenage son, Alberta Granger considers she belongs to the perfect modern extended family. With her catering business booming and her daughter embarking on a glittering career in London, Bertie reckons she can cope with the mild irritants of her difficult stepson’s visits and her father’s ongoing disapproval of Tony.

But some truly shocking news is about to rock Bertie’s world to its foundations. As a torrent of tabloid headlines engulfs the family in a very public scandal, Bertie is forced to face the fact that some of her nearest and dearest, those closest family members she thought she knew so well, have been keeping secrets, leading mysterious double lives she knew nothing about. As revelation follows revelation, old wounds re-open and former grudges re-surface.

Is Bertie’s family unit tight enough to survive? Is her relationship with Tony solid enough to withstand the battering? And, when temptation arises in the form of a handsome stranger, is Bertie herself strong enough to resist?

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Book News: Breaking The Bank by Yona Zeldis McDonough

Posted on Friday, September 11th, 2009 by Leah

Yona Zeldis McDononough’s new book Breaking The Bank was released a few days ago (Sept. 8th) and as well as having a fab cover, it sounds like a fab read:

Mia Saul is down on her luck. Then one evening a routine stop at her local bank’s ATM yields a surprise. The machine begins producing bills—quite a lot of them in fact—that are neither recorded nor debited from her account.

At first Mia attributes the excess cash to a stroke of much needed luck.

But when the machine continues to give her unaccounted for money and actually begins communicating with her, her life gets turned around in ways she never thought possible.

Who doesn’t wish that this would happen in real life?

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Book Review: The Runaway Wife by Susy McPhee

Posted on Friday, September 11th, 2009 by Chloe

Marion Bishop feels like her life has fallen apart around her. Her 9 year old daughter Hope was killed in a hit and run accident, and the police have never found who did it. Marion’s also managed to push away her husband Sam, the only person she has left in the world, and now feels in the depths of despair.

Marion is ready to give it all up, and on the way to the chemist on the night she decides to end it all, she bumps into someone… someone that is going to change her life as she knows it. Marion begins to wonder whether she really does want to end everything, and has to rethink.

But is she going to be able to get over Hope’s death, and will she ever win Sam back?

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Author Interview: Ellie Campbell

Posted on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 by Leah

photo of Pam and Lorraine (elliecampbell) Having loved Ellie Campbell’s second novel, When Good Friends Go Bad, and reviewing it here on the site, I got an email from Lorraine (Ellie Campbell are actually two sisters, Lorraine & Pam who write together) thanking me for my review and asking if we’d like to do an author interview with them. I jumped at the chance, and here it is! It’s a fab interview and well worth a read if you wonder exactly how two people can write one book…

1. Tell us about your latest novel When Good Friends Go Bad.

The story concerns four women who were best friends at school but time and unfortunate events have torn apart. There’s an attempt at a reunion ten years on but the one who arranged it fails to appear and after an evening of betrayals, deceptions and outrageous behaviour, the other three vow never to speak again. Yet many years later, while all are challenged by different crisis in their lives, they’re talked into a quest to find their missing friend – unearthing dangerous secrets, and even more dangerous emotions along the way. Among other things it deals with divorce, first love revisited, impossible choices, a mystery and, of course, a love story or two.

2. Please tell me you and Pam are working on your third book? Chloe and I both loved your first 2 books.

Thank you. We love hearing that. Yes we are working on a third. It’s all planned out and we’re about a quarter of the way through it. Not sure when it will be in the shops, but we’ll keep you posted on our new facebook fansite or on our Ellie Campbell website.

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Author of the Week: Chris Manby

Posted on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 by Leah

This week’s Author of the Week is none other than the hilariously funny Chris Manby. I’m a huge fan of hers and can’t wait for her next book. Her biog doesn’t offer up much as it’s out of date but here it is anyway:

In 1995 Chris Manby met a New York psychic who told her she would write seven novels. She has just finished her eighth. Which means she probably won’t marry that millionaire, either! Raised in Gloucestershire, Chris now lives between London and Los Angeles. Her hobbies include reading in-flight magazines and she hopes that continually crossing time zones is an effective anti-aging strategy.

My favourite of Chris’s books is probably Spa Wars, I absolutely loved it and hope to get the chance to re-read it asap so I can review it. Her latest release was Crazy In Love which Chloe has reviewed. Chris’s next book will be called Getting Over Mr. Right and is due out on the 4th February 2010 and sounds like a great read:

After more than two years together, Ashleigh is just waiting for Michael to pop the question. She’s sure she’s met her Mr Right. But Michael has other things on his mind - namely, an interior designer from Brazil with big hair and an even bigger chest. Out of the blue, Ashleigh finds she’s dumped. Via Facebook. Ashleigh is not the sort of girl to take this news lying down. Instead, she embarks on a calamitous campaign to win Michael back. She’s staking everything she’s got. She may have lost her man, but has she also lost the plot?

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Archive for September, 2009

Book News: What's Yours is Mine by Tess Stimson

Book Cover: Housewife in Trouble by Alison Penton Harper

Book Review: When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Book Cover: Recipe For Scandal by Debby Holt

Book News: Breaking The Bank by Yona Zeldis McDonough

Book Review: The Runaway Wife by Susy McPhee

Author Interview: Ellie Campbell

Author of the Week: Chris Manby

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