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    Sunday Catchup – Weeks 8 & 9
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    I haven’t done one of these in a while, as one week, I was really busy with work and couldn’t read a thing, and then last week I was visiting relatives in Wales, so didn’t have a chance to update the blog for week 8, so have combined them here.

    Read This Week:

    AskingForItAsking For It – Louise O”Neill
    It’s the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O’Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident.

    One night, there’s a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma.
    The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can’t remember what happened, she doesn’t know how she got there. 
    She doesn’t know why she’s in pain. 
    But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened to Emma that night. 
    But sometimes people don’t want to believe what is right in front of them, especially when the truth concerns the town’s heroes . . .

    This book is fantastically written. I really enjoyed it and I think it’s an important book for everyone to read. 


    WinterWeddingThe Winter Wedding – Abby Clements

    Hazel never set out to be a wedding planner. She was just helping her stressed sister Lila with cakes and décor for her big day. But when Lila and Ollie’s summer ceremony is a runaway success, with guests raving about the food and styling at the pretty venue, word about Hazel’s expertise soon spreads. 

    But Hazel’s clients expect the very best – she’s promised lawyers Gemma and Eliot a snow-covered castle in the Scottish Highlands, and laidback couple Josh and Sarah a bohemian beach wedding in a Caribbean paradise. But as weather, in-laws and wilful brides conspire against her, can Hazel get two very different couples to walk up two very different aisles to say ‘I do’? And will she find her own happy ending if she does?


    I LOVED this book, picked me up from a reading slump, you can read my review here

     

    Currently Reading:

    howtostuffupchristmasHow to Stuff Up Christmas – Rosie Blake
    ‘Tis the season to be jolly. Unless you’ve found an intimate picture of another woman on your fiance’s phone…

    Eve is heartbroken after discovering her fiance is cheating on her. Being surrounded by the joys of Christmas is more than Eve can bear, so she chooses to avoid the festivities by spending Christmas alone on a houseboat in Pangbourne. Eve gets gets an unexpected seasonal surprise when handsome local vet Greg comes to her rescue one day, and continues to visit Eve’s boat on a mission to transform her from Kitchen Disaster Zone to Culinary Queen.

    But where does Greg keep disappearing to? What does Eve’s best friend Daisy know that she isn’t telling? And why is there an angry goose stalking Eve’s boat?

    I’m still working my way through this slowly but surely, I am enjoying it so I don’t know whats taking me so long!


    MistletoemansionMistletoe Mansion – Samantha Tonge
    Kimmy Jones has three loves: cupcakes, gossip magazines and dreaming of getting fit just by owning celeb workouts.

    When Kimmy’s Sensible Boyfriend told her he didn’t approve of her longing for the high life or her dream of starting a cupcake company Kimmy thought she could compromise – after all, she did return those five-inch Paris Hilton heels! But asking her to trade in cake-making for a job sorting potatoes is a step too far.
    So, newly single – and newly homeless – Kimmy needs a dusting of Christmas luck. And, masquerading as a professional house sitter, her new temporary home is the stunning Mistletoe Mansion. Soon she’s best buds with glamorous next door golf WAG Melissa, and orders are pouring in for her fabulous Merry Berry cupcakes! The only thorn in her side is handsome handyman Luke, a distraction she definitely doesn’t need. And talking of distractions, something very odd is going on at night…
    Kimmy is finally living the life she’s always wanted. But will her glimpse into the glittering lifestyle of the rich and famous be as glamorous as she’s always imagined…?

    I’ve just started this one and am looking forward to reading the rest.

     

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