I've Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella - 2012 *****

I love Sophie Kinsella. She's such an easy, relatable author and I was enthralled by this novel.
Poppy loses her engagement ring soon before she is due to marry her partner Magnus. Her phone is then stolen and by chance she finds a replacement in a bin. The trouble is, this phone is still very much in use and Poppy finds out that it belongs to a businessman named Sam's ex PA. She doesn't see why she should give it up, besides, she needs a phone in case anyone tracks down her ring, and Sam desperately needs the phone back to access his emails and contacts. The only thing they can do is meet and try to come to some sort of arrangement. (I don't know why this initially reminded me so much of 'Pillow Talk' with Doris Day, but it did.)
As you can imagine, all sorts of things happen, but the ending was (of course) exactly what I wanted.

Started 8th June
Finished 20th June

Don't you Love Your Daddy? - Sally East & Toni Maguire 2010 ***

Another depressing misery memoir, this time backed up by Toni Maguire who is well known as a misery memoir writer. Sally East portrays a hideous story of sexual abuse at the hands of her own father who takes total control of her once her beloved mother dies of cancer when Sally is at a young age. She has no one there to help her, protect her, or save her, and this is her account of what happened. Well written and easy to follow, the one downside appeared to me to be the brushing over of her later life. For someone who goes into such detail over the sexual assaults she doesn't pay much attention to showing us her positive new life at the end of the book. It's glossed over on the last pages.

Started 7th June
Finished 8th June

Death in the Clouds - 1935 *** 1/2

Unlike the majority of the reviewers of this book I actually found it a bit slow during the middle. The pace at the beginning was wonderful, and the ending was superb but the middle was too fluid. Poirot is right in the centre of the action, taking a plane back from Paris with a group of other people. During the journey, one of the people is murdered on the plane in her seat (a wealthy old woman no less) but the problem is no one has actually seen the culprit, or the murder taking place.
Poirot's grey matter is working overtime to solve this case, as usual never knowing who to trust.

Started 31st May
Finished 7th June