Millie the Millipede - Erin Ranson

Advantages: Hilarious, impossible to put down book.
Disadvantages: Ends too soon

...Millies Fling is a book about a woman with a mini who manages one day to stop a rich chain smoking novelist Orla Hart from throwing herself off a cliff. From that moment on they become firm friends and Orla decides to use Millies ordinary life as a basis for a new fictional masterpiece she wants to write to prove all her critics wrong who say that her writing has become stale. Along the way various people are almost physically chucked at Millie by Orla in a desperate hope to get Millie her happy ending for her book and her friends life. Millie however has kept one tiny detail back from Orla about her love life and that is a widower she had a one night stand with who made it clear he wouldnt get into a relationship again since his wife died. The only problem is Millie realises that she has fallen hopelessly in love with him and doesnt... Read review

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Advantages: Humour, Original. Funny Quips. Girls Book, Good characters
Disadvantages: none.

...Predictable but extremely addictive. Both the audio and the actual book. One of the best books that i have read with funny quips all the way through. Jill Mansel is one of the best authors i have read, she can connect with the reader without knowing them and creates situations that women find themselves stuck in all the time. The audio cd is just as good as the book as normally the humour might go from either or both but in this case it doesnt. 'Millie's Fling' has some classic and some not-so classic moments all filled with humour - All the characters are original and not in any way the same - you always have them certain characters somewhere in your life wether they are in it or are just lerking beneath your floorboards.... Read review

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Advantages: Very good sense of humour
Disadvantages: It ended!

...If you are after a light hearted, quite predictable read, but also a read where you are still tempted to turn to that back page just to check that it is going to turn out the way you suspect, then this could well be the book for you! It even has that essential dose of sex included - yes, thought that would get your attention! We meet Millie, our heroine, on a hill top where her boyfriend is asking her a very important question – will she let him move in with her as he is about to be kicked out of his flat and has nowhere else to go? Our heroine doesn’t tell him where to go (although the reader may feel that she should have done exactly that, or is that just me), but instead goes off to talk to a woman who is quite obviously very distressed, meaning that Millie puts 2 and 2 together and makes 4 and a half, believing... Read review

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