Before becoming a novelist, Kate Harrison worked for a news agency, reporting mainly for the national tabloids. Kate Harrison writes fiction and non-fiction: She's also the author of the bestselling The 5: Visit Kate's website at kate-harrison. Visit the Soul Beachwebsite at http: Learn more with http: You'll experience every moment of us. Tom must pick twenty-four of the most significant moments from their time together - one for each hour in a day, from 12pm to 12am. The rules are simple, and this time Tom is determined to play by them. But no relationship is perfect.
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She doesn't think she's ready for romance, but she needs more than this, and her son Jack needs a Christmas to remember. What Kate needs is a Christmas miracle, and if there isn't one on its way, she'll just have to make her own. So begins Kate's advent countdown to the best Christmas ever.
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She was a brilliant, high-flying scientist. He was her loving and supportive husband. Now she's gone, and Aidan must carry on and raise their daughter alone. But Rachel has left behind her life's work, a gift of love to see them through the dark days after her death. A gift called iRachel. Their journeys in this book are all very different, but they all come together to help each other through the good and bad, and thats what you want to read about — something to make you smile. I enjoyed every page of this with its subtle twists and turns along the way to keep you wanting more, and I found it so easy to slip back in with Emily, Sandie and Grazia again, probably because of the easy to read writing style and excellent plot.
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Nov 20, Nicole rated it it was amazing. Emily, Sandie and Grazia are back for some more shopping! But not just any shopping, Christmas shopping! The three shoppers are back for some more fun, but it turns out to be that they're falling into problems. Sandie falls pregnant with her boyfriend Toby, which is against what her Grandma taught her, and her mother comes back after not wanting to know anything about her for years.
Emily and Will have fallen in financial problems with the shop and Duncan comes back after being sacked. Grazia wan Emily, Sandie and Grazia are back for some more shopping! Grazia wants to live on the wild side after the death of her husband, Leon, and finds herself a toyboy she finds 3 toyboys through the course of the book but feels uncomfortable in her own skin and considers having surgery. But someone new has joined them. Kelly Wright, a girl that lives for her father. She finds herself working for Sandie after not finding much luck at the stall.
Her father comes in contact with Charlie, Sandie's old employer whom she stole the secret shopping buisness from, and he gives her a choice. Either he makes her dads life a living hell, or he saves him in return for Sandie's address and codes. This twist in the climax is somethig that I didn't expect to happen, but somethong I didn't like was that at this point there was too much going on and each chapter is written from a different characters point of view, so it gets a bit confusing. By Christmas, Sandie still cant decide what to do about the baby and wether to tell Toby or not.
Also, she is trying to make amends with her mother and get along with Toby's mother. Emily has given in to Duncan takig Freddie for Christmas but this results in her and Will having a big row so she spends Christmas alone. Grazia however, seems to be having a wonderful time with her third toyboy, Nigel, and his family. Kelly still cant get over the deaicion she made and revists her path in a horrifying way and tries to save Sandie's flat from burning the result of Charlie Flack's doings.
The book ends happily though, Emily is reunited with Will and Freddie. Sandie tells Toby and decides to keep the baby after his mother tried to bribe her out of it. Grazia tells Nigel how she really feels about her skin and he talks her out of it. Kelly, with the help of a friend, begins to enjoy herself for once and has tried to forget about her past. I really enjoyed this book. It had much more drama than the first book and made me want to read on. I would really like to see a sequal come out because there were many questions that were left unanswered by the end like did Sandie find out why that happened?
Is Kelly going to go back to work for her in the New Year? Will Toby's mother interfere again with Sandie and her grandchild? Will Emily and Will make it through?
Will Sandie find out who her father really is? On a whole I really enjoyed this and I read it at an appopriate time! I made the choice to pick this up after deciding to read some basic chick-lit that didn't require too much thought and as it's getting into the Christmas season this seemed like a decent enough choice. I didn't read the first book in the series but I didn't feel like it was particularly necessary to have done so to be honest as little bits and pieces are filled in and the story is pretty self contained. The story centres around a group of women who are friends and work together and the dramas in I made the choice to pick this up after deciding to read some basic chick-lit that didn't require too much thought and as it's getting into the Christmas season this seemed like a decent enough choice.
The story centres around a group of women who are friends and work together and the dramas in their own individual lives in the lead up to Christmas. The characterisation was good and even without the character headings it would have been pretty obvious whose pov we were reading anyway but the individual characters had much differing degrees of likeability.
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I found Emily for example to be a whiney, self-centred, spoiled brat at times and it was hard for me not to be silently screaming for Will to leave her permanently when he left. Likewise I found Kelly and her struggles between good and evil so to speak would have meant more if I had liked her to begin with.
The book wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. It was what it was designed to be, an easy to read piece of fun. I might actually get round to reading the other two books in the series at one point because as far as the genre goes, I have definitely read worse. I was drawn to this book in the library by the festive cover it's mid-November and rapidly discovered how few days are left for doing my Christmas shopping. If nothing else I have to give the book points for giving me a kick! I didn't love this book, it was merely okay. I didn't like the style but it worked.
The characters are quite well written but it seems to be a book about nothing. Nevertheless, I found myself reading it throughout the night. I think I wanted to see what Sandie would do al I was drawn to this book in the library by the festive cover it's mid-November and rapidly discovered how few days are left for doing my Christmas shopping. I think I wanted to see what Sandie would do although in this type of book it was pretty much a foregone conclusion. I picked this up in a charity shop where it was part of their display of Christmas-themed books, and it was just right to read in the run-up to the festive season.
It's light, though it does deal with some dark themes, and is a quick read.
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I haven't read the first book in the Secret Shopper series, and I think I would have enjoyed this book more had I had a knowledge of the characters and their backgrounds. All in all a pleasant, light, but forgettable read. Jul 23, Rosie Ellen rated it liked it. A slightly frothy read but good fun none-the-less. Apparently the second book to feature these characters, but I didn't feel like I was missing any back story when reading it.
Based around the lives of 3 secret shoppers, it wasn't very challenging to read but the characters were interesting enough that it was still enjoyable enough. The fact that it only took me a day to finish shows just how easy it was, but also that I was involved enough to carry on with it. A pleasant enough holiday read. Aug 24, Katrina Walper rated it it was ok. At the same time! Combine all these factors with the run up to Christmas and you have three good friends run off their feet in every direction but, because friendship is really all that matters, resolutely there for each other in a pinch.
And if there's one thing this book is about, it's friendship. The women have quite different lives and quite different responsibilities, but it's those friendship ties that keep them well and truly in each others' lives. All the other stuff is just padding, really. Distractions that might take you off course, but never steer you too far away from what's really important. The book follows the three women, plus new gal Kelly, as they prepare for the busiest time of the year. The format of telling it in the first person but constantly from different people's points of view took a few chapters to get used to, but after a while I found it easy to make the switch from one to another.
The story is slick, and the different threads weave together well, so by the end you really just have one main story, albeit with a few different sub plots.