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I really enjoyed this book, it's Chick Lit but it is definitely the best Chick Lit that I have recently read. I regret to say that I had not really taken any notice of Katie Fforde but I swapped this with someone and I'm really pleased and excited as she has written loads of books which I will of course have to catch up on. The book follows Grace Soudley and Ellie Summers as theyboth try to get their lives back on track. Grace has recently divorced the over-bearing Edward and has been left Luckenham House by her Aunt but the house seems to be falling down around her and Grace is short of cash. Ellie, newly single and pregnant is taken in by Grace and the two women embark on a friendship that they both quite clearly needed. Thrown into this mixture are Flynn Cormack- the gorgeous Irish Man determined to help Grace; Demi- Grace's ex-step-daughter who is looking for a home and a maternal figure; and Allegra and Nicholas- Grace's greedy siblings who put the pressure on her

I still have 34 days left until Lent is over and I can eat chocolate again! I am absolutely fine; I have not found myself sitting there thinking about chocolate (which is unusual) but I am not fine when other people have chocolate in front of me! Mr S (my other half), unfortunately is waiting for his second year medic exam results this week therefore he has been very stressed and eating copious amounts of chocolate digestives and I have had to simply watch rather than joining in and he thinks he is being ever so funny by offering me the occasional one. Reading wise this week things have been good, obviously I finished The Kite Runner which was excellent and I wanted to read something different so I decided to go for a regency drama in the form of Regency Buck , plus it allows me to knock another one off my TBR challenge. I am really enjoying it; I have always loved this kind of book but had not heard of Georgette Heyer until she was recommended by a friend but I have to say that I am

I hardly read this weekend as had people visiting plus been having bad headaches due to needing new contact lenses and having forgotten to visit the opticians since 2005!! This has been remedied though by a visit to the opticians tomorrow plus the arrival of four new books! I have only just realised that they are nearly all off Richard and Judy's Book Club list- not sure if this is a good thing or not. I started The Kite Runner on Saturday afternoon before my friend arrived and was instantly engrossed, I wanted to put the book down even less when she saw what I was reading and said that she had recently finished it and had loved it. I have knocked one book off my TBR 2008 Challenge list and I am going to try and decide this week what to read next from my 11 options, I really want to re-read all the Harry Potter books too so I may have to set myself another challenge for that.