Be Careful What You Wish for - Alexandra Potter

Price- I picked my copy up in a charity shop for 50p the cover price is 6.99 so that was a pretty good deal and I don't for one minute think its exclusive. Ease- This book is the same size and weight as many other chick lit books available. It fits nicely in your handbag and you can read it comfortably in the bath. Value for money: I completed it in under a week so if you take it on holiday take a second book for coming home with. Enjoyability- The story is entertaining and captivating from the first page. It has the perfect balance between believable fantasy and reality. Plot- I'm not one for spoiling plots but it involves the ...  Read the complete review

The young women from Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, to name the three largest cities in GB after the capital, to say nothing of the ones in places like Nether-Piddleton-on-the-Marshes, must have a satisfying love life. I can't call myself an expert on chick lit novels, but the ones I've read were only ever set in London. A chick lit novel without problems is unthinkable, so if chicks from other parts of the country aren't chosen as protagonists, it can only mean that they haven't got any or enough problems worth writing about. It can't be that London is more fascinating than other cities because often nothing is made of it besides it serving as an opportunity for name ...  Read the complete review

***The plot*** The main character is Heather, who works as a wedding photographer and dreams of her big break, working at a national paper. She lives in Little Venice, and feels her life is far from perfect, with her lack of money, perfect figure, and a bad relationship with her stepmother Rosemary, and is always making those little wishes that we all do when things aren’t perfect, “I wish I could lose those few pounds, I wish I could get a seat on the tube” and so on. One day she is coerced into buying some lucky heather (ooh, the coincidence) from a gypsy woman (you know the type, ‘be lucky darling!’), and suddenly, her every day wishes start coming true, as well ...  Read the complete review