Summary: Libby Slater is about to marry Rob, a lawyer, in two months. Although her mother Caroline dislikes him, she is trying to plan and micro-manage every detail of the wedding. One day, Libby discovers by accident that the not-so-affectionate Caroline is not her birth mother. Libby confronts her and sets out to find her […]
Tag: Fiction
I’ve never read any of Pam Jenoff’s books before. So ‘The Other Girl’ came as a pleasant surprise. It is about an incident in Maria’s life. She is a young, newly pregnant woman living in rural Poland during WWII. She is estranged from her parents and is living with her in-laws after her husband is […]
The first few pages of Wizard of the Crow made me impatient because the author, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, went on and on describing the rule of the dictator over Aburiria, a fictional country in Africa. I wanted to stop… However, I did not want to give up so easily because I thought that the author […]
by Fiona Neill Long ago, I read The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill. I did not think I would finish it. The first 100 pages (out of the total 420) were about Lucy Sweeney, housewife and mother of three, who gave up her job as a TV producer to be a […]