Slow start but really got going once Vita and Oliver crossed paths. Quiet a sweet love story. I think it must be very hard to date a widower, impossible not to feel second best I would have thought. So I was feeling very sympathetic towards Vita as she tried to deal with it. Shed a few tears towa...
I am trying to read less 'chick-lit' these days but this author is a particular favourite of mine and her books are not as trashy as many out there so definitely one to pick up in the library. She always develops her characters well and so you want to read on to find out what happens to them. I l...
I love Freya’s novels – usual light, full of quirky heroines and with recurring themes of intense female friendship and lots of lovely rude sex, they are nearly always on my summer reading list.In a departure from tradition, “Love Rules” breaks away from her conventional formula of concentrating ...
Polly vertrekt voor een jaar naar de VS vanwege een uitwisselingsproject. Dat jaar heeft een effect op haar relatie met Max, onder andere door een stomme fout die ze maakt. Hier wordt ze uiteindelijk voor gestraft. Hoewel het voor een groot deel toch haar eigen schuld is, bleef ik toch met haar m...
No, it's no good; I can't take it any more! I tried to ignore the weird changes of tense and the insistence on trying to fit a one-liner at the end of every chapter. I continued in the face of purple prose, yawned through descriptions of Richard shopping and cooking, showering and dressing for hi...
For my hospital visit today I decided to take Freya North's Home Truth paperback with me to see me through the tedious day. It is the second book by Freya North I have read and I found it was as good as the first. An easy read that does not require enormous amounts of concentration which helps wh...