Your Summer Reads
Love Letters, By Katie Fforde
£12.99 Published by Century
Laura Horsley agrees to help at a literary festival where an innocent mistake leads the festival committee to believe she is a close friend of the author Dermot Flynn. Secretly obsessed with Dermot since her University days, Laura agrees to a trip to Ireland to persuade the maddeningly reclusive Dermot (although infuriatingly attractive) to come out of hiding and gets a little more than she bargained for.
Twenties Girl, By Sophie Kinsella
£18.99Published by Bantam Press
Lara’s start-up company is floundering, her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa and the love of her life has dumped her, so now is not the time to be visited by a ghost! The spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie, the image of a Charleston-dancing girl visits her to persuade her to help look for a long-lost necklace. As the treasure hunt gathers pace, can two girls from different era’s one alive and one dead, really learn from each other?
Girl Friday, By Jane Green
£16.99Published by Micheal Joseph Ltd
A year on after her split from Adam after fifteen years of marriage, Kit is starting to reassemble her life in Highfield, Connecticut. She has a great job, two wonderful children and lots of time to enjoy her yoga. But when Tracey, Kit’s yoga instructor introduces her to perfect Steve, Kit starts to wonder whether everything is a little too perfect. Why does she feel annoyed when Tracey starts to date her boss and why is Tracey hiding a secret. This is a tale where friendship is intertwined with marriage, love, romance, family and the discovery that people you thought you have lost in your life make their way back to you.
The Whole Day Through, By Patrick Gale
£7.99 Published by Fourth Estate
When Laura Lewis has to abandon life in Paris to care for her elderly mother in Winchester, all hopes of a Parisian romance are dashed. But then she bumps into Ben, who during her student days was the love of her life and who Laura has compared every man to ever since. He’s married and she’s cautious, but will fate throw them together once more? Patrick Gale writes of the tests of bittersweet love and of the difficulty of being good.
Sapphire By Katie Price
£12.99 Published by Century
Since catching her husband in bed with another women, Sapphire Jones does not believe in relationships anymore. Her current lover is younger than her and great in bed but comes without any emotional demands so that Sapphire can concentrate on her high-end lingerie business. All is going well until Sapphire makes the headlines for the wrong reasons, her business is in jeopardy and her private life is everyone’s business. In the middle of all this, Sapphire realises that she may not be immune to true love after all…
My best friend’s life, By Shari Low
£6.99 Published by AVON
A hilarious tale of two best friends who set out to see if the grass is greener if they live each others lives. But they’re about to discover you get more than aching feet when you walk in your best friend’s shoes.
The House at Riverton, By Kate Morton
£6.99Published by Pan
An intricate family saga that spans three generations. The book is set in the 1920’s and told through the eyes of Grace, a maid at Riverton house. The story jumps between the twenties and to now, when Grace is ninety-years-old and telling the story onto tapes for her grandson. This is the story of an English country home, of privilege, glamour and secrets, love lost and tragedy. It’s definitely one you won’t want to put down!
American Wife, By Curtis Sittenfeld
£7.99Transworld Publishers LTD
This is Alice’s story of growing up in a small town in 1940’s Midwest America and the intricate paths and choices she takes in life, from her upbringing and the tragedy that shaped her, to eventually ending up as the wife of the US president. She confides in the difficulties and privileges of becoming a first lady and of the intricate nature of true love and a happy marriage.
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