Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Leah
Ruth Saberton has kindly offered us five copies of her debut novel Katy Carter Wants A Hero to give away to our lucky readers. I absolutely LOVED the book - funniest book of the year so far, as far as I’m concerned - and you can read my review here. All you have to do to enter is to email us at [email protected] - easy peasy. Please include your postal address, as the only people to see it will be myself and Chloe. The competition is open to UK residents only and ends on Sunday 25th April at midnight. Good luck!
Katy Carter knows she’s no domestic goddess: she’s scatterbrained, she needs a fire extinguisher at the ready when she’s cooking, and she daily falls off the diet wagon. But that doesn’t stop her fantasising about a hero to call her own. And Katy thinks she’s found him in fiance James, a charming, high-flying city banker. So why, then, does Katy find herself scribbling steamy historical romances every spare moment she gets, and daydreaming about becoming a published author when she ought to be paying attention in staff meetings? As her wedding day looms, Katy determines to become a wife James can be proud of, and employs the help of her best friend Oliver to impress his colleagues and his family. But despite best laid plans, the pair set off a hilarious train of events that leads Katy on a crazy journey through celebrity, chaos, makeovers and, finally, into the arms of her hero…
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Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Leah
Lulu has always been the sensible member of her family. She has a good job as a psychologist, lives in a lovely flat and drives a fantastic car. However after a hectic day at work Lulu realises that she’s fed up of listening to other people’s problems and completely turns her life around. She opens up a pet behavioural office, trades her car in for a motorbike and moves into a trailer/caravan and she’s suddenly calmer than she has been in years. There’s even the hint of love on the horizon, but nothing ever runs as smoothly as expected and a tragedy forces Lulu to yet again re-evaluate her life and maybe, just maybe, face up to the problems she faced through her childhood.
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Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Chloe
I’ve been scouting around for news of a new Cathy Kelly book for a while now as I really enjoy her books (and so does my mum!), and finally I’ve found something! Homecoming is due out on September 30th, and sounds like a wonderful read.
“Golden Square is a pretty Victorian garden square tucked away in the city, where a group of women live side-by-side. Rae Kerrigan, mother of three grown-up sons, runs the square’s tearooms, Titania’s Palace. Connie O Callaghan, a good-humoured teacher lives with her younger sister. Everyone believes that she’s professionally single, but if so, why does she curl up with romantic novels at night in a pink bedroom bedecked with fairy lights? Into this settled world arrive two new residents: Mrs Levine, a mysterious elderly American and Megan Flynn, a beautiful, young British actress who has just had an affair with the married star of her latest movie. Like magic, their arrival signals huge change for all of the women in Golden Square.”
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Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Leah
At Chick Lit Reviews we work very hard to be able to bring our readers the best possible chick lit site on the web. In recent months we’ve added Chick Lit Classics as well as a weekly Chick Flick Tuesday feature. We’ve also added our Book News archive to our navigation for those looking for the latest news. We’ve also added an Amazon widget to the sidebar showcasing our favourite books as well as an Amazon button to our posts for quick ordering/pre-ordering.
We now have two more new features that have been added to Chick Lit Reviews. Our first is an Author Events page, highlighting all upcoming events featuring our favourite chick lit authors. Most events are announced on social networking sites so we’ve decided to put them all on one page to save any frantic searching/Googling. Let us know if you know of any author events and we can add them to the list!
Our most recent feature - and one I’ve been working on for the past month! - is Author Profiles. I know it’s hard to try and learn more about an author and find out they don’t have a website - or, worse, they have a website that’s never updated with their new releases so what we’ve done is added a page for each author second name letter (A, B, C) then added all the authors of that letter to one page including their name (and any pseudonyms), biography, website and full list of their books along with a picture, if possible. We hope it’s of use to you guys! It’s not totally complete - there are, of course, authors missing and I’m frantically trying to add as many as I can!
Enjoy!
Leah & Chloe
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Posted on April 17th, 2010 by Danielle
Rules, we all live by them. Some people live to break them and there are others who live their lives by these rules. Jacob Hunt is one of those people who lives his life by those rules, primarily because he’s “hard-wired” to think just that way. Jacob has Asperger’s syndrome, a form of Autism that keeps him on the fringes of “normal” society along with those that care most about him. It keeps him from having the meaningful relationships that most of us take for granted and eventually ends him in a situation where he looks guilty enough to kill for one of those relationships.
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Posted on April 16th, 2010 by Leah
It’s been eleven years since Ralph McLeary and Jem Catterick first got together and everyone, including themselves, thought their relationship would last forever. Life hasn’t turned out that way though and as a flat has turned into a house and their family has expanded to four, it seems that Ralph and Jem are drifting apart.
As Ralph tries to get over his feelings of helplessness and Jem tries to remember who she was before the children came along, they both try to figure out how to recapture their love for each other. Is it too late for Ralph and Jem or is still possible for them to have their happy ever after everyone expected of them?
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Posted on April 16th, 2010 by Chloe
While Jojo Moyes work isn’t perhaps classed as chick-lit, I was tempted to post it simply due to the beautiful cover of her book The Last Letter From Your Lover, so I did! I received a copy of this from the publishers and it was wrapped in brown paper and a pink ribbon, and looked so beautiful I really can’t wait to read it now. It’s due out 8th July and here’s the synopsis:
“When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper’s archives for a story, she doesn’t think she’ll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband – and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man.
In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can’t remember anything – her husband, her friends, who she used to be. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.
Ellie and Jennifer’s stories of passion, adultery and loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel – interspersed with real ‘last letters’.”
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Posted on April 16th, 2010 by Chloe
The nominations for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance 2010 have been announced, and they are a great selection of books. The awards are held in the honour of chick lit author Melissa Nathan who tragically died of cancer in 2006 aged just 37. Melissa’s books are all fabulous reads, so if you haven’t yet picked up one of her books, make sure you do!
Here are the nominations:
I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk (HarperCollins)
Wedding Tiers by Trisha Ashley (Avon)
Tug of Love by Allie Spencer (A Little Black Dress Book)
Love Letters by Katie Fforde (Century)
Moon-Light in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles (Bloomsbury)
Blue Collar by Danny King (Serpent’s Tail)
The awards are being held on June 15th, so good luck to all the nominees, and we will post the winners on here once they revealed!
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