Love Lives - Josie Lloyd, Emlyn Rees

Husband and wife authors Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd, as well as being published individually, have been writing together for a number of years. Love Lives is their fourth collaboration following on from Come Together, Come Again and The Boy Next Door. They have had two more books published since entitled We Are Family and The Three Day Rule. Their writing topics bring them under the genre of chick lit (or women's contemporary romantic fiction if you prefer!). Obviously a book entitled Love Lives is going to be about love but Lloyd and Rees also bring in relationships with family and friends to try and make the book different from a classic romance. Naturally, as with all ...

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. Or is it the other way around? I can never remember. The point is that we?ve been told so many times of late that men and women can?t ever hope to understand one another because we?re so different. That?s long seemed the case in literature as well. The images of men presented in chick lit have never seemed quite rounded enough to me. Bridget Jones? men were either perfect or complete bastards. Or your father. Serena Mackesy?s men were all fantasy men. That?s as in ?objects of fantasy?, rather than men from a fantasy novel, although if you want both, Viggo ...