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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