Is it just me or do the women (and I quote) "roar" and "shriek" quite a lot in this book? What happened to "talking" and "shouting"?That put aside, I found "Once in a Lifetime" to be a pleasant novel. Sure, there were a lot of characters to keep track off, and sure they all managed to recover fro...
The town of Ardagh in Ireland loves its local department store, Kenny’s, run by David Kenny. But things to do with the people aren’t all rosy. David’s wife Ingrid, a politics TV Presenter is juggling her family life and work life, but she soon unearths a secret that will shatter her world. Kenny’...
This has to be one of the most unfortunate titles and cover art I've seen, the picture of a carefree young woman on a swing is misleading, a lesson in "don't judge a book by its cover". It appears to be a romance, or chick-lit, but it's actually a very well written, thoughtful, satisfying work of...
As others have said in their reviews, so many characters were introduced in the beginning that I thought I would not be able to keep up with all of them. This was not an issue after the prologue as there were really only 4 main characters + their families. If you enjoy Maeve Binchy books, you wi...
While I enjoyed reading this book I had a hard time getting into it. I felt that the author took a long time setting up her many characters and I often had to check in previous chapters to see where a certain name had been introduced first and who they were associated with. She also took forever ...
hmmm, i feel guilty about reading books like these :-) i always feel like they're written for the mediocre housewife who's taking a break form cleaning the windows. (no offence) however, i had just finished a rather 'heavy' book , so i felt I deserved some easy literature and that it was. nothing...
This was the first Cathy Kelly book I've read and I really enjoyed it will definitely be picking her novels up in future. Chic lit is such a wide genre now that some stories are repetitive same old same old but this was definitely different. Set in 3 countries across two different eras and with t...
Not my ordinary type of book, but I needed a light read with the excitement of being at the beach! It was a simple to read, honest story; not much to analyze. Certainly the most chick-lit book I've ever read. Gave it to my best friend IMMEDIATELY. I enjoy that it dealt with so many conversations ...
Ok, I'll admit it. I was a little bit disappointed. I'd never read a book of this sort before but the cover was pretty and so I thought it'd be nice to try a Christmas book. It is true that most of the stories had little if any relation to Christmas and they were predictable and repetitive with s...
* 3.5 starsOne happy event, a young couple gets engaged on top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, sets in motion a chain of events affecting the lives of those who are caught up in the upcoming nuptials of the young lovers. It Started With Paris, begins with an impressive prologue set in Paris, follow...
Why I decided to read this book: I decided to read this book because just recently I had for the first time experienced the wonders of Cathy Kelly in the form of her book, Best of friends, and was eager to discover if her other books were as good as her first. I was not disappointed.The categorie...
Best of Friends is about three different women: Lizzie, Abby and Erin and how through shared grief they come together to help each other through and change their lives for the better.I really enjoyed reading this book. It was well written and had a few different story lines that were all intertwi...
I almost didn't make it through this book. The characters are almost insultingly stereotypical. Hope is a depressed housewife. Her sister Sam is a lonely workaholic. And if I just stopped my review right there I bet you could guess the happy ending. Yes, it's that predictable.I kind of hated most...
Drei Frauen, und alle haben sie nicht wirklich Glück in der Liebe. Die eine findet erst keinen, die anderen hat einen Langweiler als Verlobten und die dritte ist bereits verheiratet - jedoch mit dem Falschen, wie sie leider zu spät feststellt.Hauptperson ist Evie (die mit dem faden Verlobten Simo...
Jo has a great career and a gorgeous boyfriend. Best friend Aisling is deliriously happy with her successful husband. Then Aisling finds a receipt for expensive lingerie in her husband's suit pocket, and Jo discovers she is pregnant.
This all started out very well indeed and I was instantly hooked on Chrissie and her gift of sight, uptight Faye and betrayed Maggie. At the beginning of this book, I loved them all and couldn't get enough of them, to be honest. Heck I even liked teenage daughter Amber and that, for me, is a very...
And she was only fifteen minutes late, which had to be a record, Emma thought, watching her sister’s progress through the centre, her step as confident as a supermodel. She looked amazing, as usual. Kirsten’s hair, currently a rich chestnut crop, contrasted perfectly with the tiny butter-coloured...
She’d been wakened during the night by Opal and Meredith’s voices on the floor below. At one point it sounded, Freya thought, as if somebody was being sick, but she couldn’t be sure. She knew she was shattered from lack of sleep, but when she walked into the kitchen and sa...
Duck eggs make the most wonderful breakfasts. When you crack open the fragile shell and peer into that golden yolk, the colour and consistency of honey, and breathe in the scent of the land, your heart sings. The problem is the ducks. We always had a couple in the yard, Muscovy ducks, with black ...
On holy days like Ash Wednesday, you had to be up early to walk to morning Mass and get the ashes on your forehead. The ashes were from the burned palms from Palm Sunday, and they’d be mixed with oil and the priest would anoint people’s foreheads with this mixture in the sign of the cross.I can s...
Adrian did what he always did too: groaned in his sleep and rol ed over for another few minutes’ oblivion. She started to race mental y through the day: what she had to do, what she should have done yesterday, what she might manage to put off until tomorrow. And then, with a delicious feeling lik...
‘That’s code for people like me: not too tall but could lose a few pounds – or more than a few pounds.’ ‘You don’t need to lose any weight,’ said Jo automatically. ‘And there’s no box for bubbly. A lot of them work by psychometric testing. You answer a whole series of questions and they set you u...