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A dozen stories of love

Advantages: Incisive, witty, interesting characters
Disadvantages: I wanted to know more about them all

Married Love is Tessa Hadley's second collection, containing twelve short stories looking at (mostly) modern relationships and family dynamics - many are about parents and their grown up children and in-laws, others are about couples. Flicking through the ...

elkiedee 15.08.2012 · Read full review
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A MAGICAL CHRISTMAS TALE . . . FOR ANY TIME OF YEAR!

Advantages: magical, fabulous characters, immensely readable, I fell in love with Hardy's
Disadvantages: you do need to suspend your belief a tad at times

So far, "Miracle on Regent Street" by Ali Harris is the best book I've read this year. Okay, I've only read two books this year, but I will go as far as to say I think it will remain in my top ten favourites of the year - I feel pretty confident about ...

Pmshack99 23.01.2012 · Read full review
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A MIracle Read!

Advantages: Just brilliant, lovely characters, well written, so enjoyable
Disadvantages: None at all

I love debut novels. There is something about heading into the unknown with a brand new author that is both exciting and intriguing. I love it even more when their debut novel happens to be a festive one, and when I received a copy of Ali Harris’ debut no ...

mummy2harry 17.10.2011 · Read full review
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Where has the real Wendy Holden gone?

Advantages: Not a lot
Disadvantages: I paid for the book!

Author Wendy Holden was born in Yorkshire and then after discovering her love for Literature moved on to read English at Cambridge. She met her husband at Cambridge and her first job was working on an arts magazine called Apollo. Her second job saw h ...

KathEv 06.09.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Marrying Up - Wendy Holden

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Marrying Up

Advantages: A complete distraction from real life
Disadvantages: Quite nonsensical!

This book is such a different type of book to the one I last read. The last one that I read was one by Susan Lewis - if you have read Susan Lewis books you will know that they are very intense books. This book is the complete opposite to that. It's non ...

jules.34 29.01.2012 · Read full review
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