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Published on 3rd May 2020
If you’re looking for romance, for something to lift your spirits and make you smile, our colleague Eimear from the relief staff panel recommends some perennial favourites from Sophie Kinsella and Claudia Carroll. Whether this is your first time to read them, or a chance for you to dip in and enjoy them again, happy reading!
I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
Poppy Wyatt has never been happier. She’s a successful physiotherapist, has great friends and is about to marry her ideal man!
One afternoon, not long before the wedding, Poppy manages to lose her engagement ring during a hotel fire drill. This isn’t just any old ring. This ring has been in Poppy’s fiancées family for three generations! To make matters worse, in the panic that follows her phone is stolen! As Poppy paces the hotel foyer, she finds a phone in a bin.
Perfect! Now at least she can leave a number with the hotel staff. However, the phone’s owner, businessman Sam Roxton doesn’t quiet agree. He wants his phone back and it’s not long before he discovers Poppy has been reading through his emails and worse, interfering in his personal life! As the days go by with no engagement ring in sight, Poppy and Sam find they are increasing caught up in each other’s lives. Add in the mysterious phone calls Poppy has been receiving and wedding preparations to boot, it’s not long before Poppy realises that she is in for the biggest surprise of all!
Can You Keep A Secret? By Sophie Kinsella
Emma Corrigan has always been a nervous flyer and strong turbulence only makes matters worse. Much worse, believing that the end is near, Emma spills all her secrets to the handsome stranger sitting next to her on the plane. Secrets she’s kept from her boyfriend Connor: she thinks that Connor looks like a Ken doll. Secrets from her colleagues: she jammed the photocopier that time. Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone: she has no idea what NATO stands for. But it doesn’t matter; she will never see the handsome stranger again. On Monday morning Emma arrives into work only to find that the man she told her secrets to is the company’s elusive new CEO. Things couldn’t possibly get any worse…could they?
He Loves me Not… He Loves Me by Claudia Carroll
Deep in the heart of County Kildare lies Davenport Hall; an eighteenth century mansion and ancestral home to Portia Davenport, her younger sister Daisy and their eccentric mother, Lucasta. After their father abandons the family, taking what little money they had with him, the Davenports decide to allow the family home to be used as a location for a major Hollywood film. So the world’s biggest stars descend on Davenport Hall, including the self-absorbed Montana Jones, heartthrob and major sex symbol Guy van der Post, and Hollywood royalty Ella Hepburn. And before you know it, there’s more drama off screen than on!
He Loves Me Not…He Loves Me is a great fun read and a perfect distraction in these strange times.
I Never Fancied Him Anyway by Claudia Carroll
Cassandra, never set out to be a psychic, after all, being a clairvoyant isn’t exactly your typical career choice. Nonetheless, Cassie has made a name for herself in the psychic world. She’s a successful columnist for a Dublin magazine and she even has her own TV slot thrown in for good measure. The thing is, Cassie has the ability to predict the future, and more to the point, the future love lives of everyone around her with alarming accuracy! She’s never been wrong, not once. But here’s the problem, whilst Cassie can make accurate predictions for everyone around her, including her three best friends, Chantal, Jo and Marc, when it comes to her own love life, she gets it disastrously wrong. The problem is only made worse by the fact that her gift flies out the window whenever there’s a D.S.M (Decent Single Man) around, especially if Cassie happens to fancy him! Which in this case happens to be her hot, new TV producer boss. Being able to predict the future doesn’t protect Cassie from what life has in store. We don’t always get to look before we leap!I Never Fancied Him Anyway is a light and funny read, the perfect novel to curl up with and enjoy.
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