The central theme of this novel is infidelity but I did not find the characters entirely believable. The mistress at first seems slightly wishy washy who turns out to be a "bunny boiler". The wife, after finding out about husband's infidelity collaborates with the mistress to get back at the husb...
This is a simple tale of sibling rivalry. Take two sisters: Caroline, tall, skinny and beautiful becomes supermodel Cleo at 16, and the younger Abigail, plain, slightly dumpy but clever, constantly over-shadowed by Cleo, goes off to university, and becomes a single mum working part time in a libr...
(this review is also posted on my Blog)I wasn't going to review this book, but then remembered that I pinky swore to keep things real and honest. Here it goes.This was a book club choice by a gentleman who belongs to the group. I can't tell you much about him as it was my first time attending the...
Abi can hardly look Miranda in the eye. She just wants to get out of there as soon as possible. She tries – and fails – to act as if everything is normal, move along, nothing to see here. When they finally get out of the shop, she exhales loudly and realizes she has been holding her breath. ...
The second honeymoon period is most definitely over. One day spent with Lorna and I’m back to my old irritable glass-half-empty self. ‘Don’t be ridiculous,’ he says. ‘You love your job.’‘I used to.’‘Where else are you going to find something as flexible? Where they’ll let you take a day off just ...
The point is you get to feel better while he gets to feel like shit.’ It made a kind of perverse sense. Why should James escape without any punishment for his crime? OK, so losing both of the women he professed to love might hurt him a little but she doubted now that he would care for long. He cl...
Sean was standing looking at her, a wry smile on his face. She tried to return it, but she was having trouble behaving like a normal, functioning human being. She had spent the night awake but pretending to be asleep. Terrified her world was going to come to an end and there was nothing she could...