Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling is (funnily enough) the third book in the Aisling series, but it’s the first time I’ve listened to Aisling’s story on audiobook and I have to say, it was a pure delight. The narrator, Amy McAllister, was just perfect, she sounded exactly how you’d want Aisling to; it’s basically like […]
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Opening sentence: “The first day back at work after Christmas and New Year is always a bit of a slog.” Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****! is the third in this hilarious series by Gill Sims (I actually still haven’t read the original – Why Mummy Drinks – but really will rectify that soon. I […]
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Opening sentence: “My kid moved out the day she was born.” In a nutshell, So Lucky is about that familiar phrase: ‘Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about . . .‘ People might seem like they have it all and are ‘so lucky’ but the reality is quite different. (Coincidently, this is also […]
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This is my first book by Holly Bourne, she is primarily a YA author and How Do You Like Me Now? is her adult novel debut. I whizzed through this in a few days, this is her funny, witty – and very knowingly cutting – take on the unsaid social and life conventions of women […]
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Opening sentence: “Does it have any scaffolding around the bust?” To give it its full title: The Importance of Being Aisling: County Roads, Take Her Home is the sequel to Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling. I recently spotted it in the airport on my way back from a trip to Dublin and I just […]
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Why Mummy Swears by Gill Sims Opening sentence: “I have one week till the summer holidays begin.” Why Mummy Swears is a year in the life of exasperated mum of two, Ellen Russell. I had a smile on my face from the first page, put simply: It’s just really, really funny. It might be because […]
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Not Working by Lisa Owens. Audiobook narrated by Tuppence Middleton. Opening sentence: “There is a man standing outside my flat wearing khaki greens and a huge ‘Free Palestine’ badge.” Read by the wonderfully named Tuppence Middleton, I listened to Lisa Owen’s debut novel on audiobook and laughed out loud more than once on the train, […]
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