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Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 by Chloe
Poppy Norton is a bit of a cliché, even she admits it. She was unlucky in love until she met News Presenter, father of 3 Luke Norton. The two begin a relationship on the sly, and accidentally Poppy falls pregnant.
Luke decides to leave his wife Hannah to set up home with Poppy but soon finds out life with a young model and their newborn daughter doesn’t quite match up to his twenty-year marriage. Fast forward 2 years, and Poppy’s fed up of being ignored and left at home with daughter Clara so looks for a job herself.
Things are not rosy in the Norton garden, but are they going to get better or worse?
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Posted on Monday, May 18th, 2009 by Chloe
Olivia Felicone has just been made a widow after her husband Luca died in a car accident.
Luca was the love of Olivia’s life, and she’s not sure how she can go on without him. She isn’t close to the Felicone family, but begins an affair with Luca’s twin brother Marc behind everyone’s backs, as it makes them both feel closer to Luca.
But is it really the best thing for both of them?
When I read the plot of the book, I thought it sounded very interesting, and I was intrigued to see how the author was going to tackle the issue of a widow having a relationship with her brother-in-law, and also in trying not to make the lead character of Olivia hateable because of it. Amazingly, Douglas has succeeded in making the story believable and yet allowing you to still like Olivia, and understand why she is continuing in her actions. Olivia is a very likeable character, and because of the way the story is written, you do feel very sorry for her, and almost develop feelings of hatred towards the Felicone family for their treatment of Olivia.
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Posted on Friday, May 15th, 2009 by Leah
It’s about love lives …Maggie has been dating Stan for years - safe, comfortable and about as exciting as soggy toast. Can their relationship survive? Especially when Maggie meets David McDonald, her opposite number at the boys boarding school over the hill. Every single girl in the school has a crush on him, but not Maggie …yet.
It’s about school lives …Two girls. Same form. Simone Kardashian has won a scholarship and is determined to make her parents proud. Fliss Prosser is furious at being so far from home and her friends. As Simone tries desperately to fit in, Fliss tries desperately to get out.
It’s about private lives …Veronica Deveral knows how to manage a school. Routine and discipline are fundamental to her role. But Veronica has a secret that could ruin her career.
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Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 by Chloe
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The MacLeod sisters are all incredibly different, and boy don’t they know it. Eldest sister Avril is a successful Hollywood agent, choosing to live life mainly away from her family with the high-flying lead actors and actresses of the film industry. Milly, a mum of 3 is constantly putting on a happy front to her sisters but is desperate to lose weight and get rid of her maternity jogging bottoms for good.
Bride-to-be Natalie is determined to be welcomed into the Potterton-Smythe’s family and that her wedding is going to be absolutely perfect, and baby sister Hazel can’t seem to settle anywhere, instead choosing to backpack around the world although she feels at 30 she should be starting to put down roots.
But the MacLeod’s are about to get a big wake up call, throwing all the sisters closer together than they’ve been in years. But are family squabbles and hidden secrets just going to break the bonds of sisterhood even further?
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Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 by Chloe
Mina and Peter don’t know each other, but they’re about to strike up an unusual friendship. Mina works in a call centre for a car insurance company and happens to take Peter’s call when he calls to report an accident.
Mina is struck by Peter, and he by her, so when he has to call the centre again and asks for Mina, she starts to think more about Cambridge Don Peter. The pair strike up a telephone friendship, finding out they have more in common than they originally thought and getting closer with each conversation.
But their distance, lives and other things get in the way of something more… can Mina and Peter put themselves first for once or will they forever be just Crossed Wires?
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Posted on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 by Chloe
Stephanie and James are happily married and living with their son in London.
Or at least that’s what Stephanie was led to believe until she saw a text message on James’ phone which leads her to believe he’s having an affair. Stephanie decides to confront his mistress Katie, and they are both shocked at the lies and deceit of their lover, and decide to get revenge.
But one of the women doesn’t know when to stop… how far will she go to bring down the man who betrayed her? And will the other woman be able to stop her before it goes too far?
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Posted on Friday, May 8th, 2009 by Chloe
Lorna, Helene, Sandra and Joss all love shoes. But behind the addiction, all the women hide various secrets threatening to ruin their lives in different ways. Lorna has enormous debts, but just can’t resist the latest Jimmy Choo’s, piling them on yet another credit card. Helene is married to a politician, but behind the public face lies a very unhappy marriage, and secrets Helene is hiding from her own husband that she doesn’t want to get out.
Sandra has a double life, she works as phone-sex operator called Penelope to get some easy cash, and this is how she funds her shoe addiction. Finally, Joss is a nanny for the most awful family and is so desperate to get out of the house she’s willing to join any group.
The ladies meet at ‘Shoe Addicts Anonymous’, and realise they are all going to be friends for a very long time…
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Posted on Monday, May 4th, 2009 by Leah
Mia thinks of herself as a grown up. Her twenty-two-year-old sister, Clare, is once again in the death throes of an affair that was always doomed to failure. Mia now understands that relationships need work; that in an adult partnership, passion and spontaneity give way to something different but more lasting. With Pete she knows that her search for ‘The One’ can stop.
Until, tripping over Pete’s phone on the way to the loo one night, she reads a text message that sends her blood cold. Everything in it - its tone, the kisses at the end, Pete’s evasions about the sender ‘Liz’ - is wrong, and suddenly the blinkers are off. It’s time to get back in the game, and with everything to play for, Mia is about to discover a capacity for deceit she never knew she had.
After all, when Happy Ever After is at stake, any weapon at your disposal is fair game - isn’t it?
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