Posts Tagged ‘Elise Chidley’

By scouring around the internet I seem to have come across the cover for Elise Chidley’s next book Married With Baggage. It’s not the best quality but it still looks a fab cover. The book also sounds like a must-read. It’s due out on November 19th:

‘She’d never dreamt she’d wind up being a mum before she had a baby.’

When Annie was swept off her feet by handsome widower Simon, she willingly promised to have and to hold all that he held dear, including his daughter, Lydia. Lydia’s mother died years before in a sailing accident and it’s clear from the off that the young girl doesn’t welcome her new stepmother.

As a lucrative job offer for Simon forces them all to decamp to America, Annie has a lot to learn. How do you fit in in a close-knit US town? What makes her daughter tick? And how do you try to convince your new husband that he’s done the right thing in marrying in haste? For every woman who’s had to juggle the complexities of step-parenting, this sharp and funny look at the world of modern famililes will ring very true indeed.

Chloe loved Elise Chidley’s debut novel, which sounds great. Elise’s second novel Married With Baggage is released on the 19th November and sounds like a really great read, too. The synopsis reads:

‘She’d never dreamt she’d wind up being a mum before she had a baby.’

When Annie was swept off her feet by handsome widower Simon, she willingly promised to have and to hold all that he held dear, including his daughter, Lydia. Lydia’s mother died years before in a sailing accident and it’s clear from the off that the young girl doesn’t welcome her new stepmother.

As a lucrative job offer for Simon forces them all to decamp to America, Annie has a lot to learn. How do you fit in in a close-knit US town? What makes her daughter tick? And how do you try to convince your new husband that he’s done the right thing in marrying in haste?

For every woman who’s had to juggle the complexities of step-parenting, this sharp and funny look at the world of modern famililes will ring very true indeed.

If you like the sound of this, read our review of Elise’s debut novel The Wrong Sort of Wife.

Lizzie Buckley had it all - a huge house, handsome husband James and 2 beautiful twin children Ellie and Alex. But when Lizzie accidentally sends a moaning email meant for sister Janie in Australia to her husband, her life starts to fall apart around her. James doesn’t want her anymore, she’s left in a grotty cottage with 2 toddlers, no money, no job and feels very alone.

Lizzie is determined to win James back, so sets about getting a new body and career thanks to best friend Tessa, hoping it’s enough to get James to fall back in love with her again. But is it all too little, too late to the couple? And was Lizzie really just the wrong sort of wife?

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