Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life - Chris Manby

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...