Life Begins - Amanda Brookfield

Amanda Brookfield is one of my favourite authors and I tend to anticipate her new books with relish. She tends to write about normal everyday people who seem to have more than their fair share of ups and downs in life. This is exactly the case with her latest offering 'Life Begins' which centres on an almost forty year old divorced woman and her rather unpredictable life! The central chaaracter is Charlotte Turner who is recently divorced from Martin with whom she has a somewhat acrimonious relationship. They do however have to keep communicating with each other because of their thirteen year old son Sam. Added to this Charlotte has a difficult relationship ...  Read the complete review

Charlotte Turner is about to turn forty and hopes that means her life is going to get better. She's just got divorced from her husband Martin who is now shacked up with his new girlfriend Cindy, and her son Sam is heading into his teenage years and growing apart from his mum. Charlotte wants to move on but doesn't know where to start. Can she start to mend her relationships and find happiness after the big four-oh? I haven't read any of Amanda Brookfield's previous novels, so I went into the book without any expectations of her writing. The story sounded quite interesting and I hoped it was going to be a book that I would enjoy a lot. When I began reading the ...  Read the complete review