Light fiction and easy reading, but Lisa Jewell just has a knack of writing books that have such likeable characters and twisty interesting storylines that you don't want to put them down.The only issues I had were these: I would be very doubtful that Penny was educationally subnormal as they use...
This is a very sweet easy read about a young woman whose past is a mystery after a fire at her parents house. Now an adult memories of her past come back in bits after being hypnotized on a theatre visit with a new boyfriend. Gradually more and more unfolds. As I said this is a sweet read, the c...
Ijust discovered the author, Lisa Jewell. This is the second book of hers that I have read, and I enjoyed it. The subject matter, donor children meeting each other and their father, is not something I read about often, so it was interesting. I loved how the author let us know each character deep...
This was a book that I picked up months ago, at Daughter's school summer fair. It sat there in my contingency book section, to be picked up when I've run out of all other books. I came across it when I was busy tidying and rearranging the book shelf, and decided to read it. It's almost time for t...
This book was a fantastic read! It was completely enjoyable from cover to cover. The author does a great job describing the characters, so that you get a good rounded sense of each one and even wish you were a "friend of [their] family." The quote on the back is a "great summer read." I wouldn't ...
Lisa Jewell's 2001 novel One-Hit Wonder certainly classifies as chick lit, with its female protagonist and her story of self-discovery and self-empowerment. I don't see why this should discourage me from reading it. After all, as Anjura Razdan wrote in the Utne Review in 2004, the genre's examina...
Vince and Joy meet each other on a camp site where they are holidaying with their parents. Joy is 18 and Vince is almost 19 when they meet and they fall madly and completely in love with each other. Joy's parents are in their 60's and Vince's are much younger and trendier. Vince and Joy are made ...
Meet the residents of the London brownstone on 31 Almanac Road who together weave a tangled web of romance. Ralph, a ne'er-do-well artist, suddenly realizes he's head over heels in love with his new flatmate Jem, the most fun and sensible girl he's ever encountered. Unfortunately, Ralph's best fr...
1990. Please write and tell me why you should live here.Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the "Unexpectedly Alone...
No. I would say that I tend to float rather aimlessly through the days and months these days. Like a child’s lost balloon. Towards the horizon. Never to be seen again. Ha, ha! My children all live too far away. (And of course, I could go and stay with them but I think I’ve mentioned before my rat...
Her fourteenth period since she and Adrian had started trying. It wasn’t a surprise. She’d been feeling it coming for days. But still, the disappointment registered like a mule-kick to Maya’s soul. Red, raging disappointment followed by a single heartbeat of relief. With each passing day her life...
It’s dark and the duvet is twisted around her legs. She looks at the clock by the bed: 8:09. For a moment she has no idea if it is morning or night. Then she remembers that it’s still Saturday night. She’d been dreaming of her family. She’d been dreaming of home. She picks up the phone and calls ...
The sun was high in a cloudless sky. The garden was full of the sounds of industry and expectation. It was the day of the Virginia Gardens Annual Summer Party.And also the day that her firstborn became a teenager.She’d thrown Grace a small party in their back garden earlier: non-alcoholic cocktai...
One of the agencies she signed up with had offered her a three-day stint sewing on buttons in a tailor’s shop in Bloomsbury for £2.85 an hour, which she had accepted wearily. But within two minutes of entering the shop, a festering lint-filled tomb owned by three ageing Portuguese brothers with s...
Pip had put on a dress, a short one from New Look with a skater skirt. Grace was wearing a loose T-shirt and high-waisted leggings. They both had ponytails. And Grace, Pip had not been able to help but notice, was wearing mascara. There was an unspoken but concentrated effort from both of them to...
They had left Soho House at 2 a.m., apparently the last people there as the management frantically tried to close the place up for the night. The group of fruity young men who had been pestering them all night had gone in one direction, living as they all did in north and east London, and Jem and...
The summer air felt sweet against her clammy skin. Usually after work on these warm summer days Melody craved lager or chilled white wine, but today she had a sudden urge for a glass of lemonade. She stopped at a café on Sicilian Avenue, took a table on the pavement and ordered one. It arrived in...