Chick Lit Classic: Cat by Freya North
Chick Lit Classics is a regular feature on Chick Lit Reviews where we highlight the books we feel are classics of the chick lit genre. Feel free to discuss our choices in the comments section!
This week I have picked a book that was one of the first chicklit reads I ever read myself. I actually remember going to WH Smith with my book token and picking this out for myself excitedly, sure it was going to be a great read. Freya North is great writer who has created a family of girls who get a book of their own with their name, such as Cat, and each of the books follows one girl. This book follows Cat as she is a journalist on the Tour de France and it certainly makes for interesting reading! There are a few rude bits, but the story telling is great, and I loved it! I have read the other McCabe sisters books, and they are all just as good, so ones to look out for if you haven’t read them yet!
“Cat McCabe is 29 and the youngest of three sisters brought up by their Uncle Django-a man with unusual culinary tastes (“I made pizza tonight,” Django says proudly. “I had some bread that was going a bit off so I tore it up, added a little oil and beaten egg and a drop of ketchup, formed it into a base and baked the bugger. I added a topping of sardines, chicken liver, a little more ketchup and some Stilton.”)-after their mother ran off with a cowboy from Denver.
A budding sports journalist obsessed with cycling, she’s just been offered the chance of a lifetime-covering the Tour de France for the Guardian. But she’s a little on the fragile side, having been dumped by her boyfriend of five years, and thus lost loads of weight and self-confidence. How will this English version of Ally McBeal survive the testosterone-fuelled cycling race? Will she succumb to the muscular thighs and obvious bulges of the sexy cyclists-and they to her slim English gorgeousness? How will she cope as one of only 12 women in the thousand-strong press corps? Will her Ex show up? Will he want her back? Does she want him back? And what about Ben York-team doctor for Megapac, the American outsiders? He seems to be flirting with her, and there’s definitely Chemistry. But if he’s after Cat, why was he looking deep into the eyes of Monique, the stunning Coca Cola podium girl? And, when the three gruelling weeks are over, will Cat get the features editorship she craves at Maillot magazine?”
The lovely Kate Harrison contacted us to let us know about a charity auction she is taking part in along with some other great authors, and we wanted to share it with you because it’s for a great cause, and a pretty great thing to win as well!
