Archive for November 24th, 2009

The residents of 66 Star Street in Dublin are all being watched… but by what? Maeve and Matt seem happy enough to anybody looking in, but behind the facade is a truth that neither of them wants to be made public. Katie and Conall have a love/hate relationship, but how will the arrival of TVgardener Fionn affect their relationship?

Lydia lives with Polish men Andrei and Jan, but can’t stand either of them… not to mention the problems Lydia is having with her own mother as well. And Jemima lives with her lovely dog Gurudge, but is sure she feels the presence of something hanging around the house of 66 Star Street. Just what, or who, is watching these people? And will the secrets that bind them ever come out?

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Thanks to the wonderful people at Transworld we have five copies of Anna Davis’s new book The Jewel Box to give away. You can read Chloe’s review of the book here. The competition is open to UK residents only and the first five correct answers will win a copy of the book. All you have to do to win a copy of this fantastic book is to answer this simple question: What is Grace Rutherford’s job in The Jewel Box? Send all your answers into [email protected] and we’ll notify you if you on the 1st December to tell you if you’ve won! Here is the synopsis for The Jewel Box for those interested:

Grace Rutherford is the one and only Diamond Sharp, the ‘It’ girl of 1920s London, whose weekly newspaper column delights readers with tales of her nightly escapades: the dinners, the dancing, the hairdos, the fashion, the men…Caught up in the glitz and glamour of the day, Grace begins a passionate affair with charming, flirtatious American author Dexter O’Connell. Soon, though, she finds herself falling for John Cramer, the charismatic neighbour her widowed younger sister adores. Irresistably drawn to both men, Grace discovers that they are bitter enemies. As she becomes tangled up in the mesh of secrets and lies that binds them together, she must try to find out which man, if either, she can trust.

The rather fantastic Elizabeth Noble has her next book, The Way We Were, due out in May 2010 and sounds like another compelling read which will also make us all cry! I have to say that I adore the book cover and can’t wait to see it properly:

Susannah and Rob were childhood sweethearts. But as with most early love affairs, they broke up, moved on and now find themselves in very different places. And not entirely happy – who is?

A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives. What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance? Is fate telling you it’s time for a second chance . . . or should you simply walk away and let the past become ancient history?

But Susannah and Rob don’t seem able to forget the way they were . . . and the world is about to realize the consequences of their reunion.