Archive for September 29th, 2010

After Judith Summers’ latest relationship breaks up, in part due to her pet Cavalier George, and her son Joshua heads off for University, Judith’s life is looking a bit empty and she’s suffering from ‘empty nest’ syndrome. A chance encounter on Hampstead Heath with a fellow dog-owner who adopted a dog from Many Tears Animal Rescue. After her step-daughter then adopts a dog from the same centre, Judith browses the website and decides to head down to Wales to visit the centre in person.

Once there, Judith learns that not only can you adopt dogs from the centre, but you can also foster dogs whilst the centre looks for new homes for the dogs. Judith thinks it sounds like a fantastic idea and decides to go for it, hoping it’ll cure the empty feeling she currently has. George, though, isn’t too keen on the idea and when Judith gets her first foster dog, there’s no telling what George will do to keep Judith to himself…

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‘Not Exactly Chick Lit But…’ is a new feature on Chick Lit Reviews highlighting some books that are not exactly Chick Lit (hence the title) but that our Chick Lit readers will probably enjoy! Let me know if there’s a book you would suggest for my new feature!

Our latest book that we’re highlight in our new feature of books that aren’t Chick Lit is Woath It? Coase Ah Am, Pet? by Cheryl Kerl, which is out on October 14th October 2010. It sounds absolutely hilarious and is a parody on Cheryl Cole, written like a proper Geordie! It might take you a while to decipher the synopsis, but here it is anyway (Good luck, says the Geordie herself):

‘Hei, Mam Ah’m ganna be a stor’ said a young Cheryl Tweety to hor Mam one day, following a bonny baby competition in hor native Newcastle. An tell yerz this leik, she wuzzen wrong! Noo aall grern up as Cheryl Kerl, shiz the peepils’ princess an shiz everywhor yerz look pet. On TV, radieau, magazines an billboadz; just aboot the biggest star in the UK man! And ask hor what she thinks aboot it an she’ll jus flash yerz tha big smeel and likelee sey ‘Its mint man!’ in that Geordie accent so loved the world over. In short shiz fulfilled hor destinee.

Noo as queen of aall she surveys, faw the foast teim in this book she’ll give you a personal insight into what she thinks aboot aall sortz a stuff an tha. Covering topics as divoase as the music biz tuh jeans, the opera tuh fashion icons, itz aall between these pages. Cheryl opens her heart and soul, and pulling no punches tells it leik it is, man woman man. Find oot tha being a supahstor’s nut just aboot havin the teim of yerz leef gaddin aboot at fillum premiers an tha. Beheend tha smeel lies a leefteim a hoad graft an detomanation. This is Cheryl’s take on modun leef. Her own unique pawspective on anything an evreething.