Hmm...I borrowed this book from the library, and thankfully it wasn't bought. It was okay, the plot was cute, but sometiems all too prdictable. I felt like the whole story and its characters generally lacked a certain depth. As a reader, i want to see a lot more than literally bad action and good...
This is a pretty decent example of comic romance though it does take a while to warm up. The female characters are far stronger than the male ones who aren't terribly interesting, sadly. Personally I would have preferred less airtime for Jack and Guy, and a greater focus on Gilly's friends and he...
Josie is dismayed to find herself pregnant again. How will she cope? At least she can talk to her best friend Clarky about it. He’s always been there for her, even if her husband Finn suspects ulterior motives.
I look out of the window. The house feels quiet now that Louis is back at school. I think about the night before the autumn term began, how we went through all the things we were grateful for, Louis tucked up in bed. ‘Uncle Ben, Nellie and Emily. I’ve had the best summer, ever, Mum.’ Words that m...
‘Hi, Ruskin.’ Jack strokes Ruskin, but my boy isn’t quite sure who he is yet. Often I find him in Jack’s bedroom, sniffing around or having the audacity to sit on his bed to mark his own territory.Jack has been living with me for three weeks now, but so far we have been like ships passing in the ...
She opens the door in a bright-blue dress, the colour of an exotic bird. ‘Come in,’ she says, leading me down a narrow hallway and into an open-plan kitchen with an island in the middle. A small table is at the end of the room, in front of the double doors that lead out into the garden. ‘I’m on m...
‘We must go on lots of double dates,’ she’d exclaimed. She has been trying to sort a night out with Charlie, Edward and me for the past fortnight. ‘It’ll be Christmas before we know it,’ she had moaned in email exchanges, when Charlie couldn’t do this date because of work, or Edward was away. I’d...
I am in the shop the following morning. Eve and Bells have popped out to buy some croissants and cappuccinos. ‘NO! That’s dreadful!’ Emma says. ‘What did you say to him?’ * ‘Sam, a fat lot of use you were.’ ‘What are you on about?’ He was shaving and I was talking to his r...