Archive for April 16th, 2010

It’s been eleven years since Ralph McLeary and Jem Catterick first got together and everyone, including themselves, thought their relationship would last forever. Life hasn’t turned out that way though and as a flat has turned into a house and their family has expanded to four, it seems that Ralph and Jem are drifting apart.

As Ralph tries to get over his feelings of helplessness and Jem tries to remember who she was before the children came along, they both try to figure out how to recapture their love for each other. Is it too late for Ralph and Jem or is still possible for them to have their happy ever after everyone expected of them?

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While Jojo Moyes work isn’t perhaps classed as chick-lit, I was tempted to post it simply due to the beautiful cover of her book The Last Letter From Your Lover, so I did! I received a copy of this from the publishers and it was wrapped in brown paper and a pink ribbon, and looked so beautiful I really can’t wait to read it now. It’s due out 8th July and here’s the synopsis:

“When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper’s archives for a story, she doesn’t think she’ll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband – and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man.

In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can’t remember anything – her husband, her friends, who she used to be. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.

Ellie and Jennifer’s stories of passion, adultery and loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel – interspersed with real ‘last letters’.”

The nominations for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance 2010 have been announced, and they are a great selection of books. The awards are held in the honour of chick lit author Melissa Nathan who tragically died of cancer in 2006 aged just 37. Melissa’s books are all fabulous reads, so if you haven’t yet picked up one of her books, make sure you do!

Here are the nominations:

I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk (HarperCollins)

Wedding Tiers by Trisha Ashley (Avon)

Tug of Love by Allie Spencer (A Little Black Dress Book)

Love Letters by Katie Fforde (Century)

Moon-Light in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles (Bloomsbury)

Blue Collar by Danny King (Serpent’s Tail)

The awards are being held on June 15th, so good luck to all the nominees, and we will post the winners on here once they revealed!