Come and Tell me Some Lies - Raffaella Barker * * *

Unlike her other non stop hilarious novels, Barker has recounted the story of her life in a painfully brutal and honest way. The relationship she had with her father and how she coped when her mother went driving in a blonde wig with no license, this book offers a fascinating insight into her life that is also surprisingly charming and funny.


Started 26th February
Finished 27th February

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh * * * *

A hilarious account of upper class life at Oxford, where the concept of teaching there is even more unpleasant than going to jail! Evelyn Waugh is a genius, and I am desperate now to read many more of his ageless and brilliant novels of 1920's England.


Started 23rd February
Finished 26th February

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte * * *

After seeing the film I decided this was a book I had to read. Everyone has an opinion about this book and I do as well. I absolutely loved the first part of the novel, but found the second half a bit slow, that may be because I was thinking the book would be exactly like the 1939 movie, and so when the movie finished there was still another half of the book left that I didn't understand at all. I think from now on I should concentrate on reading books before I see the film!


Started : 17th February
Finished : 23rd February

Playing Away - Adele Parks * * * * *

Adele Parks is fastly becoming one of my favourite writers. Her wit and realistic heartache are all too real in this fun-packed and humourous look into what happens when you are happily married but crave a bit of excitement, how far will you go...?


Started: 13th February
Finished:15th February

Affinity - Sarah Waters * * * *

I thoroughly enjoyed my first Sarah Waters novel and my pleasure is such that I am determined to find her remaining novels and read those also. This is a powerful and heart-wrenching piece of literature about a woman who falls in love with a female prisoner at Millbank Prison at the turn of the 20th century who is said to possess other-worldly powers...


Started 9th February
Finished 13th February