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Archive for May 5th, 2010

Book Review: The Perfect Lie by Emily Barr

Posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 by Leah

Lucy Riddick has always dreamed of going to Venice particularly since it’s been pinned up on her mum’s wall for as long as she can remember. She doesn’t think she’ll ever get the chance to visit Venice but she’s soon proved to be wrong as the secret she’s been carrying has finally caught up with her.

All of a sudden Lucy realises she needs to escape. She immediately decides that Venice is the place for her and sets off, leaving behind a boyfriend and her life in Cornwall, but it’s still not enough and suddenly Lucy finds herself closer to the thing she’s been trying to escape from for most of her life…

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Posted in 2010 releases, Book Reviews, Rating: 4/5 | 5 Comments »

Author Interview: Tara Hyland

Posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 by Chloe

A few months ago, Tara Hyland released her debut novel Daughters of Fortune with publishers Simon & Schuster. I was lucky enough to read it and found it to be a great read, and Tara was also kind enough to grant us another author interview so here it is. You can read my review of Daughters of Fortune here.

Q1. Can you tell us about your book ‘Daughters of Fortune’ please.

The novel is about the three very different daughters of William Melville, an English fashion mogul. There’s cold, ambitious Elizabeth; gentle, naïve Caitlin; and wildchild Amber. The book follows their lives, loves and tragedies, as they grow from being teenagers to young women. It starts off with the arrival of Caitlin, the illegitimate child, in the Melville household. The product of an affair between William Melville and a shop assistant in the seventies, Caitlin has been raised in secret in Ireland for the first fifteen years of her life. But when her mother dies, Caitlin is sent to live with the father she’s never met and his resentful family. She struggles to adjust to her new, privileged life, and naturally her presence stirs things up in the Melville household, laying the path for events that will have an impact on the family over the next decade or so.

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Book Cover: The Happy Home for Broken Hearts by Rowan Coleman

Posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 by Leah

I’m a huge huge fan of Rowan Coleman and I adored The Accidental Mother and The Accidental Family and I really can’t wait for her latest book The Happy Home For Broken Hearts. I think the title is a bit wishy-washy and twee - I much preferred the previous title The Making of Ellie Woods! I’ll definitely be buying this though when it’s released on 19th August 2010 and I think it sounds fab. I love the cover, too, it’s very cute. Here’s the synopsis:

When Ellie Woods is widowed and left to raise her son, Charlie, alone, suddenly the cosy family home she’s cherished and felt safe in, echoes with the faded memories of a once happy family. Despite rapidly-growing Charlie and his demanding teenage need for space and independence, Ellie can’t help but feel she’s rattling about the big house like a ghost herself. And without her noticing, her haven has become her cage, albeit a gilded one. So, at her sister’s suggestion, Ellie decides to rent out some rooms. Gradually, their lives become filled with an eclectic crowd of lodgers. And Ellie, forced at last to step out of the pages of the romantic novels she so lovingly edits, once more learns to live again…

For all of you Rowan fans out there, I’m pleased to report she has signed a new two-book deal with Arrow and that those books will be released in 2011 & 2012 respectively!

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