Archive for September 10th, 2010

Book Review: Second Hand Heart by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Posted By Leah on September 10th, 2010

Nineteen year old Vida isn’t like many girls her age. She can’t go to school, doesn’t have many friends, and can barely leave the house due to the fact her heart is failing and she desperately needs a transplant. When a heart becomes available, and the transplant is successful, Vida is determined to live life like never before.

When Vida meets Richard, the man whose wife’s heart now beats in Vida, she immediately falls in love with him but Richard dismisses her claims. How is it possible for Vida to love him when she doesn’t even know him? Could it be that the heart she now has beating in her chest is remembering the love for him, is that even possible? As Vida learns to live life again properly, she can’t shake the feeling that there’s somewhere she has to go and visit. But where?

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Book Cover: Walking Back to Happiness by Lucy Dillon

Posted By Chloe on September 10th, 2010

Another exclusive for you from Chicklitreviews! Here is the gorgeous new cover for Lucy Dillon’s third novel Walking Back to Happiness which is due out on 25th November this year. It’s another lovely wintery scene, and I am sure it will be as good, if not better(!), than Lucy’s previous novel Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year award 2010. Here’s the synopsis:

“Juliet’s been in hiding. From her family, from her life, but most of all from the fact that Ben’s not around anymore.

Her mother Diane can’t do anything to help. But, when she insists Juliet look after her elderly Labrador, it becomes clear that perhaps the dog, Coco, could help her daughter where she couldn’t.

Catching on, her neighbours ask Juliet for help with their pets too. But then so does Mark, the gorgeous spaniel-owner she meets out dogwalking. And before she knows it, Juliet realises she’s somehow become the town’s unofficial petsitter, and is now privy to all the lives and secrets of everyone whose animals she’s caring for.

But as her first winter alone approaches, she finally begins to wonder if it’s time to face up to her own secrets? To start rebuilding her own life? And maybe – just maybe – to fall in love again?”