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A realese date and synopsis have been released for Emily Giffin’s next novel Heart of the Matter. It’s due for release on 22nd July 2010 and sounds fabulous:

As the wife of a leading paediatric plastic surgeon, Tessa Russo can’t help but contemplate how fragile life can be. How one moment you can be going about an ordinary day, and the next, everything you once took for granted can be snatched from you. Tessa knows how lucky she is, still madly in love with her husband after seven years, with two beautiful children. Yet beneath the perfect facade, the cracks are beginning to show…

Valerie Anderson takes nothing for granted. But with one phone call, her world is turned upside down forever. As a single mother, she was always protective of her son Charlie, and will live to regret how one seemingly insignificant decision leads to a terrible accident - one that will leave Charlie forever scarred.

It is only when Nick Russo, Charlie’s surgeon, enters their lives, that Valerie finally dares to hope again. As the lives of two very different women dramatically intersect, they are forced to question everything they hold dear, and face a future that neither one had ever envisaged.

Click here to read a sneak peek of Heart of the Matter!

This week’s author of the week is Emily Giffin! We’ve reviewed three of her books here on chicklitreviews - Baby Proof, Love The One You’re With and Something Borrowed. Something Borrowed is one of my favourite chick lit books ever. The only book we haven’t reviewed is Something Blue - the sequel to Something Borrowed which is also a great read.

Emily was born in 1972, she wrote her first book aged 6 The Funny Panda’s & The Messy Room. She loved Michael Jackson and even learnt the moonwalk. She had her first kiss in 1984, aged 12! In 1986 she moved to Illinois. In 1997 she moved to New York and passed the bar. Five days after 9/11 she moved to London and started writing Something Borrowed (working title was Rolling The Dice). In 2002 she signed a two-book deal with St Martins Press. Three more novels follow with film rights to Something Borrowed being sold to Hilary Swank’s company. Emily is working on her fifth novel.

As I said, I loved Something Borrowed, Something Blue and Baby Proof. I even liked Love The One You’re With, I just didn’t like Ellen much! I can’t wait for the film version of Something Borrowed especially if Hilary Swank stars, I love her.

Emily’s fifth novel, The Heart of the Matter, is scheduled to be released next year and sounds fab. You can read a sneak-peek of it over at Emily’s website.

Claudia has never wanted children, and she was worried about finding a man who would share her feelings on the subject. But when she meets Ben and finds out he thinks the same as her, the pair marry and are happily settled.

However, their friends soon start having children, and Ben starts to change his mind about babies. However, Claudia isn’t willing to change hers and she faces one of the toughest decisions of her life. Will she be willing to lose Ben over it?

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* Hodder has signed chick-lit author Belinda Jones in a move away from her previous publisher, Random House, in a four-book deal for an undisclosed sum. The first book in the deal is currently untitled, but will be set in Argentina, Cuba and Spain and published in paperback in April 2010. The further three books will be published each subsequent year also in April, keeping Jones positioned for the summer slot. Hodder plans to update the look of Jones’ books in the same way that it has previously repackaged Melissa Hill and Alexandra Potter.

* HarperFiction’s publishing director Lynne Drew has signed Headline’s outgoing editorial director Harriet Evans in a three-book deal. The deal, for “a good six-figure sum”, was agreed with Jonathan Lloyd at Curtis Brown. Evans left Headline this week to work full-time on the novels. Her first, Going Home, was published in 2005. The first book in the deal, Evans’ fourth, is entitled I Remember You and will be published in hardback this November. It is set in Wiltshire and Rome, and described as “‘Room with a View’ meets ‘Roman Holiday’”.

* Orion has signed a further two novels by Emily Giffin in a “substantial” deal for an undisclosed sum. The first, entitled The Heart of the Matter, will be published in July 2010. The second as-yet-untitled novel has not yet been scheduled.

This is a story for everyone who has ever wondered: How can I truly love the one I’m with, when I can’t forget the one who got away?

Ellen and Andy’s first year of marriage doesn’t just seem perfect, it is perfect. There is no question how deep their devotion is, and how naturally they bring out the best in each other.

But one fateful afternoon, Ellen runs into Leo for the first time in eight years. Leo, the one who brought out the worst in her. Leo, the one who left her heartbroken with no explanation. Leo, the one she could never quite forget.

When his reappearance ignites long-dormant emotions, Ellen begins to question whether the life she’s living is the one she’s meant to live. Read my review underneath!

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Rachel White is the consummate good girl. A hard-working attorney at a large Manhattan law firm and a diligent maid of honor to her charmed best friend Darcy, Rachel has always played by all the rules. Since grade school, she has watched Darcy shine, quietly accepting the sidekick role in their lopsided friendship. But that suddenly changes the night of her thirtieth birthday when Rachel finally confesses her feelings to Darcy’s fiance, and is both horrified and thrilled to discover that he feels the same way. As the wedding date draws near, events spiral out of control, and Rachel knows she must make a choice between her heart and conscience. In so doing, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren’t always neat, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.

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