Posts Tagged ‘elizabeth noble’

Susannah and Rob were childhood sweethearts. But as with most early love affairs, they broke up, moved on and now find themselves in very different places. And not entirely happy - who is? A chance meeting between them sends shockwaves through their lives. What happens when your first love makes a surprise reappearance? Is fate telling you it’s time for a second chance . . . or should you simply walk away and let the past become ancient history? But Susannah and Rob just aren’t able to forget the way they were . . . and the world is about to realize the consequences of their reunion.

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Before Elizabeth Noble moved to Penguin, her books were published by Hodder. The covers weren’t too impressive - actually, I really didn’t like them - so since her move, Penguin have been busy making her old books look just as fantastic as her recent releases. The Reading Group and Alphabet Weekends are both due out on 25th February 2010 with their new covers and just how fantastic are they? I adore the cover for Alphabet Weekends.

Alphabet Weekends is about two friends who decide to dedicate their weekends to doing something from a letter of the alphabet in order from A-Z. The Reading Group is rather self-explanatory: five women join a reading group and end up talking about more than books!

This week’s ‘Author of the Week’ title goes to Elizabeth Noble. Elizabeth has been writing books since 2003, and has 5 books to her name so far. Leah wasn’t too keen on The Reading Group but enjoyed Alphabet Weekends. I first got into Elizabeth’s books when I read The Tenko Club a few years back, and while it was a very good read, I didn’t think it was anything special. However, that changed for me when I read the amazing Things I Want My Daughters To Know, and her subsequent release The Girl Next Door was also a superb and emotional read. Clearly Elizabeth has got better with each book, and I can’t wait for any more books she may write.

The biography on Elizabeth’s website doesn’t give much away about her, other than she lives in New York with her family. In fact, Elizabeth is a British author even though she lives in America, and this always gives an interesting slant in her books. For example, The Girl Next Door is set in New York and has a leading character who is British, so we get the best of both worlds when we read it! When asked in an interview about what she misses in the UK, Elizabeth said “My ‘misses’ are cultural and dietary – I miss English newspapers on Sunday morning, fish and chips on Friday night, Galaxy chocolate (I love America, but their chocolate is wax), Marks and Spencers, television and my friends.“

There isn’t any news of Elizabeth’s sixth book yet, but as soon as we hear anything we will post it! If you haven’t read any of Elizabeth’s books yet, I would highly recommend that you pick up a copy of either Things I Want My Daughters To Know or The Girl Next Door because they are amazing books to read. They’re both very emotional tear-jerkers that tackle important issues, but they are so well written you just can’t put them down.

For more about Elizabeth Noble and her books, visit her website: http://www.elizabethnoblebooks.com

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Barabara knows she’s dying. In response to this she writes letters to her daughters, Hannah, Amanda, Lisa and Jennifer telling them her thoughts on dying as well as revealing some long-kept family secrets.

Lisa is terrified of commitment, Jennifer is unhappily married, Amanda just cannot settle down and Hannah is a teenager forced to grow up quickly because her mother dies. Each letter to the girls helps them move on and also gives them answers to some long-kept questions.

Can Barbara’s husband Mark also move on from his wife’s death?

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Barbara has been diagnosed with cancer, and realises she isn’t going to be around for her family much longer. So she decides to write her four daughters a series of letters, each personal and individual for them, so that they have a little bit of their mother left after she has gone.

Her daughters are devastated at their loss, but will they manage to draw any comfort from their mothers letters?? Will they be able to come together as a family to miss their mother properly, and will the letters set them free from the lives they are living in?

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Eve and Ed Gallagher have just moved to their new apartment in New York City after his job transferred him. He’s eager, but Eve is feeling really lonely and a bit adrift.

But when she meets her elderley English neighbour Violet, a whole new friendship blossoms, and the Gallaghers begin to understand the other residents of their building and their lives too. Kim and Jason are struggling with their marriage and boisterous child Avery, Rachael and David seem to have the perfect family with their 3 kids; Emily is a single sportswoman but fellow resident Jackson is determined to crack her tough exterior.

Charlotte is a hopeless romantic and forever seeing the positive, and finally Todd and Greg are the apartment’s gay couple and probably the happiest of the lot. “The Girl Next Door” delves deep into relationships, new and old, to weave a wonderfully engaging story.

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The Reading Group follows the trials and tribulations of a group of women who meet regularly to read and discuss books.Over the course of a year, each of these women become intertwined, both in the books they read and within each other’s lives.

Inspired by a shared desire for conversation, a good book and a glass of wine-Clare, Harriet, Nicole, Polly, and Susan undergo startling revelations and transformations despite their differences in background, age and respective dilemmas.

What starts as a reading group gradually evolves into a forum where the women may express their views through the books they read and grow to become increasingly more open as the bonds of friendship cement.

In The Reading Group, Noble reveals the many complicated paths in life we all face as well as the power and importance of friendship.

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