Having It and Eating It - Sabine Durrant

Having It and Eating It is a brilliant book which is what I would put in a category women's fiction. Sabine Durrant has portrayed a great character and book through the life of a normal working mother called Maggie with two children called Fergus and Dan and her boyfriend Jake. Maggie has been with her boyfriend Jake ever since school and she has had two children. According to her friend Mel they are one of the most in love couples she has seen and they will last forever. Claire Masterson then bumps into Maggie in the street when she is at her wost with all of her shopping bags and the children. Claire Masterson was always the pretties girl at school who ...  Read the complete review

I am a bit of a bookworm at heart, but am very picky about the type of books I read. I'm not really into romance and all that jazz, and don't usuallylike 'girlie' type books, but browsing in Asda, i came across 'Having it and eating it' for the bargain price of £3.89, and thought I'd give it a go. It's the first novel that the author, Sabine Durrant, has written, and it's an absolute blinder! It tells the story of dreary old 30-something new mum Maggie, who lives with her partner Jake, whom she has been with since school. She bumps into Clare, her old school friend: one of those perfect types, the ones you ...  Read the complete review

I’ve been on a bit of a chick-lit kick lately, but after Daisy Waugh’s “The New You Survival Kit” which is, quite frankly, pants, I was feeling a bit wary about rushing out to buy another book just because it was super cheap or had a nice cover. So why did I get this? Well it wasn’t just one but both of these – only £3.89 instead of £5.99 in Tesco, and with a wonderfully colourful front, and despite my resolutions, I just couldn’t resist. For once I was rewarded though, because this book is absolutely fantastic. “Having It and Eating It” is Sabine Durrant’s first novel, and I for one cannot ...  Read the complete review