Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life - Chris Manby

I have read quite a few of Chris Manby's books now and enjoyed them all, so I was pleased to receive a copy of 'Lizzie Jordan's secret life' one of her earlier offerings. ~The Plot~ We are introduced to Lizzie back in her days as a student where most of her time at university was spent with her three best friends - miserable Mary, a goth who was, as her nickname implied, always miserable, Bill a cycling fanatic who always wore the exact same cycling top and refused to wash it, and finally Brian. Brian, the drop dead gorgeous American exchange student with the great sense of humour and the love of Lizzy's life. She explains how they dated for a ...  Read the complete review

I love Chris Manby, having just read another of her novels (Ready or not?) I am dying to read all the others! So I swapped someone for this and got stuck right in. I read the whole book in two days, so only read it if you have time to enjoy it, you really won't want to put it down especially at the end. Lizzie Jordan, is a quite typical girl in her twenties with her head stuck firmly in the clouds. She had the love affair of her life in uni and no one since has ever matched up. She keeps in touch with him via email as he lives in America, but creates a new imaginary life for herself, which catches up with her 6 years later when he asks to visit. He is now a ...  Read the complete review

Well it was my honeymoon... I was on a beach with my lovely wife, it was fantastic weather, everything was great... the only slight problem was what to read, I'd got through the 3 books I had brought with me in the first week and was now struggling for things to do while my wife used up every last bit of sun time she could before we returned to cold wet England. I looked through the small pile of books she had already read and picked 'Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life' out of the chick flick heavy pile. It looked fun and was bound to be the kind of light and frothy read I needed while sat on a tropical beach so I sat down to read... A few hours ...  Read the complete review

A couple of months ago, I was looking for my usual huge pile of library books to take home, when I stumbled across this one – Lizzie Jordan’s Secret Life by Chris Manby. The cover was wonderful and definitely made me want to take it home – it’s bright green with a cartoon-style illustration of a woman around my age sat at a table. It’s a lovely drawing, bright and interesting. I also liked the jazzy font used too. But – was Chris Manby a bloke? I don’t mean to sound sexist here, but I’m a big fan of Chick Lit and like my authors to be female. I mean, there are some great male authors around, but the only one I ...  Read the complete review

This book concerns an Oxford Graduate in her late twenties who is in a low paid job, living in a shared house and feeling like a failure. I can't help thinking what chance do I have of being a success if someone from Oxford can't? It's only a story though, I have to reasuure myself, and a very funny one too. Let me introduce Lizzie Jordan, our heroine. Her life is as already described, but in her emails to her old boyfriend from uni, American Brian (the love of her life), she is a successful business woman who goes to glamorous parties and lives in a penthouse overlooking Hyde Park. So when he announces he is coming to visit her, understandable she ...  Read the complete review