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Since reading The Sisterhood by Emily Barr, I’ve become a huge fan of her books. Her next book The Perfect Lie is due out on 13th May 2010 and I absolutely cannot wait. The cover has finally been released and I adore it. The pink and the blue works perfectly and it’s such a fab cover. Here’s the synopsis:

For Lucy Riddick, Venice has always been the dream destination. A dream inspired by the pretty picture pinned to her mother’s kitchen wall. To Lucy, Venice seems the ideal place to lose herself. And now she needs to do just that. The secret she’s been keeping from her boyfriend and her friends has finally caught up with her and Lucy needs to disappear – and fast.

There’s no better time to pack her bags and head for Italy. But what if, when she sets foot in Venice, Lucy finds that the one thing she has been running from, the one thing she has been trying to escape, is already there, lying in wait for her? Time to run away again? Or time to end the chase, once and for all?

The title for Emily Barr’s new book has finally been confirmed, and it’s The Perfect Lie. It’s due out on May 13th 2010 so there’s a bit of a wait unfortunately! Here’s the synopsis in case you haven’t seen it on our site yet:

“A girl flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past in this electrifying novel of intrigue, psychological tension and suspense…

Lucy Riddick is a nice, normal thirty-something girl, living an ordinary life in Cornwall. She has a lovely boyfriend and a brilliant best friend. To all appearances, life is going pretty well.

But one night Lucy packs her bags and vanishes, leaving her loved ones behind, desperate for answers. Because Lucy has a secret. It turns out she is not really Lucy Riddick at all. And when she steps off the train and arrives at her next destination, Venice, she will become someone else entirely. If she doesn’t, something bad is going to happen to her. But what happens if something bad is already there, waiting?”

Finally Amazon have a new book up for Emily Barr. I’ve been looking for ages! Her new book is currently Untitled but is due for release on 13th May 2010 and sounds like another fab read:

A girl flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past in this electrifying novel of intrigue, psychological tension and suspense…

Lucy Riddick is a nice, normal thirty-something girl, living an ordinary life in Cornwall. She has a lovely boyfriend and a brilliant best friend. To all appearances, life is going pretty well.

But one night Lucy packs her bags and vanishes, leaving her loved ones behind, desperate for answers. Because Lucy has a secret. It turns out she is not really Lucy Riddick at all. And when she steps off the train and arrives at her next destination, Venice, she will become someone else entirely. If she doesn’t, something bad is going to happen to her. But what happens if something bad is already there, waiting?

Emily Barr is the author of 8 novels, the most recent being The Life You Want which I’ve just reviewed. The Life You Want is a sequel to Backpack, Emily’s debut novel. Her novels, in order of publication, are: Backpack, Baggage, Cuban Heels, Atlantic Shift, Plan B, Out of my Depth, The Sisterhood and The Life You Want. As I said, I’ve read The Life You Want and I’ve also read The Sisterhood which I loved.

According to her bio on her website (which hasn’t been updated since 2004!) Emily is married with 2 sons and lives in France.

Although I have loved two of Emily’s books I found Backpack and Cuban Heels difficult to get into and didn’t finish either. However I have Plan B and Baggage in my large TBR pile and I look forward to reading them as Emily writes a great story. They are chick lit but they always seem to have a dark tone to them which makes them even better!

I wholly recommend The Sisterhood as that’s probably one of my favourite books ever. There’s no news yet of a 9th book but I sincerly hope there will be one!

Tansy Harris is a terrible mother. The kind who forgets to pick her children up from school, the kind who drinks half a bottle of wine at lunch-time, the kind who comtemplates an affair with her son’s teacher. The very worst kind.

But then, Tansy’s life is not one she ever wanted. When she married Max, and agreed to have his children, it was on the proviso that it wouldn’t change them: they’d still do whatever they want, see the world, be free. But they have changed, and Tansy can’t cope. With a full-scale meltdown looming, something must be done, and Tansy decides the answer is India. It’s somewhere she and Max always planned to visit together, but this is a trip Tansy will take alone: to take stock, sort her head out, come back a better person.

India turns out to be nothing like Tansy imagined, and yet everything she hoped for. But when she visits an old backpacker friend who’s joined a cult in the south, Tansy lifts the lid on something terrifying and much, much bigger that her. And the moment she realises she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time…. is the moment it’s too late.

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We all have a dark side…

Elizabeth Greene is devastated when her boyfriend of ten years leaves her for someone else. After a night of drowning her sorrows leads to an unexpected one-night stand, Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone and vulnerable.

Helen has just discovered she has a sister she didn’t know she had. Bored with her privileged life in France and driven by a need to gain her parents’ approval, Helen sets out to find her sister and reunite her with her long-lost mother. When her search leads her to Elizabeth the two women become closely linked. But their connection to one another is founded on a dark deception, with the truth having extreme consequences…

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