Livvy's Book Blog

Title: Getting Personal
Author: Chris Manby
ISBN No.: 9780340837269
No. of pages: 448
Type of Cover: Paperback
Description: Why is it that your best friend always seems to end up with men who treat her badly? Why is that your best male friend seems intent on dating the kind of girl who thinks that Nietzche is an STD? Why is it that your own little black book looks more and more like the non-celeb client list of the Priory? Why can't any of you find someone quite right? Ruby, Martin and Lou are three old friends who have spent too much time talking about the ones that got away. Facing another summer without love, they decide to approach the dating dilemma in the way they approached finding flatmates. They're going to place personal ads, for one another.

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Title: Kissed By An Angel
Author: Elizabeth Chandler
ISBN No.: 9781416978831
No. of pages: 704 pages
Type of Cover: Paperback
Description: When her boyfriend, Tristan dies, Ivy thought she'd lost everything, even her faith in angels. But now, she's discovered that he's her guardian angel-his presence so strong that she can feel the touch of his hand, the beat of his heart. Ivy needs Tristan now more than ever because he knows she's in terrible danger. Only Ivy's guardian angel can save her, npw that his killer is after her.

But if Tristan rescues Ivy, his mission on earth will be finished, and he must leave her behind forever. Will saving Ivy mean losing her just when he's finally reached her again?

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Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
ISBN No.: 9780099546184
No. of pages: 624
Type of Cover: Paperback
Description: This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving an entirely unforgettable.

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Title: The Secret Shopper's Revenge
Author: Kate Harrison
ISBN No.: 9780752893884
No. of pages: 389
Type of Cover: Paperback
Description: New mum Emily wants revenge on the stick-thin assistants who laugh at her post-baby tummy and post-baby budget. But frumpiness has its advantages when you're wielding a secret camera - and sending the damning footage straight to head office. Store manager Sandie has a lifelong love of the world of retail - the glitz, the glamour, the stockroom. Then she's fitted up by an ambitious assistant and secret shopping is the only way to keep her one passion alive. Glamorous widow Grazia can't leave behind the high life, despite her chronically low bank balance. The more she's buying - and spying - the less time she has to mourn her husband or her fair-weather friends who've dumped her. They're Charlie's Shopping Angels, controlled by a mysterious figure who sends them assignments. But when they're sent to stitch up a doomed shop owned by Will, the angels begin to feel divided loyalties ...

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