Category: Women’s Fic – Chick-lit
11th Jul / 12 Comments
In Daughters of the Bride by Susan Mallery, Maggie Watson has been a widow for almost twenty-four years. After losing her husband, losing their family home and almost losing their business, she’s now successful and has found the love of a wonderful man. So having her daughters Rachel, Sienna and […]
5th Jul / 2 Comments
The Break-Up Club by Lorelei Mathias: The story is set in London. Holly has just broken up with her boyfriend and to overcome her grief she is initiated into a club. Upon becoming a member, she is required to follow a set of rules. Besides juggling her video editor role she is […]
3rd Jul / 8 Comments
In The Wedding Sisters by Jamie Brenner, Since the day Meryl watched her three young daughters pretending to be brides, with their father part of the play-acting by ‘walking them down the aisle’, she couldn’t wait to plan their real weddings. And with her eldest daughter Meg newly engaged to […]
2nd Jul / 4 Comments
In The Girls by Emma Cline, Remembering the past has always been bittersweet for Evie Boyd. Especially when she thinks about what happened in California in 1969 when she was fourteen. That was the year that she befriended a group of girls who were on the outskirts of society, who […]
15th Jun / 12 Comments
In One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Growing up in Acton, Massachusetts, Emma Blair dreamed she would one day travel the world instead of taking over the family bookstore. She was able to realize that dream when she fell in love with Jesse Lerner, who shared her hopes of […]
4th Jun / 4 Comments
In Me and My Sisters by Sinéad Moriarty, Stay-at-home mums Julie and Sophie are sisters with very different lifestyles. Julie has triplet boys age four-and-a-half and another one-and-a-half year old boy who run her frantic day after day. And she and her loving husband Harry are constantly struggling to make […]
2nd Jun / 6 Comments
In Monsters: A Love Story by Liz Kay, Poet and widow Stacey Lane is a bit surprised when her book is optioned for a movie. Not only was it not a bestseller, but she finds out that Hollywood superstar Tommy DeMarco is the one who decided to turn it into […]
1st Jun / 7 Comments
In When We Were Sisters by Emilie Richards, Growing up in the foster care system would have been intolerable for Robin had it not been for Cecilia. They became closer with every trial and situation they conquered together, becoming sisters of the heart. These days, Robin is a stay-at-home mom […]
23rd May / 3 Comments
Stealing Jason Wilde: A Novel by Dee Ernst is an amazingly funny book about friends and the old adage, “What happens in Dune Harbor, stays in Dune Harbor”. This is about what happens when four women take there annual girls week in Dune Harbor, and end up having the adventure of […]
13th May / 8 Comments
In The Island House by Nancy Thayer, The island of Nantucket might not be Courtney’s ‘real’ home, she lives in the Midwest, but it is definitely one of her most favorite places to spend the summer. She’s been visiting the island and staying at the Vickerey’s huge house since she […]