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Description: ISBN 075153708X / Author: Dorothy Koomson / Genre: Fiction / When Kendra Tamale returns to UK from Australia she rents a room from Kyle, ... more
Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson ... a divorced father of two, and begins a new life and a new job. She's looking forward to a fresh start and simple life. Kyle's five-year-old twins, Summer and Jaxon, have other ideas and quickly adopt Kendra as their new mother - mainly because she lets them eat marshmallows for breakfast. Kendra eventually becomes a part of their lives, even though she's hiding a painful secret that makes her keep everyone - especially children - at arm's length. Then Kendra bumps into the man who shares her awful secret, and things fall apart: she can't sleep, she can't eat, she's suspended from work, and the kids are taken away by their mother. The only way to fix things is to confess to the terrible mistake she made all those years ago. But that's something she swore never to do.

Newest Review: ... like a book that I would enjoy, particularly as the back cover hints at some undisclosed scandal that is going to come to ... more

 ... light and ruin Kendra's life in a dramatic fashion. I'm not totally sure just why this book fell so short of its initial promise, just that it really failed to establish, never mind keep, my interest in the main characters, let alone the storyline. I failed to establish any real rapport with the principal character of Kendra, which was a barrier as the story is told in the first person from Kendra's point of view. For one thing, she didn't strike me as a person that I'd warm to in real life, managing to come across as...more

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kingfisher111
Premium Review Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson: The best meal of the day! (913 words)
by - written on 23/03/08 (Very useful, 142 readings)
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Marshmallows for Breakfast is the second book I have read by Dorothy Koomson. Earlier this year I read her novel 'My Best Friend's Girl' which I absolutely adored so I was very keen to read this one and it did not disappoint! It is the sort of book which should appeal to you if you like reading about people and relationships but it is definitely not 'chick lit'! The main character in the book is Kendra. Things have happened in her past which still have a serious impact on her life and she seems to spend a lot of her life running away rather than confronting her problems. At the start of the book, she is newly arrived in Britain from Australia ready to start a ...  Read the complete review

blackviolets
Premium Review Marshmallows for breakfast! (470 words)
by - written on 28/05/09 (Very useful, 15 readings)
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If I hadn't of accepted this book from somebody I know, it would probably be sat on the shelf of a local charity shop right now. I'm not saying that it's a terribly boring book but it wouldn't be one that would draw my attention. I haven't read any of Dorothy Koomsons books before and I'm not entirely convinced that this one will make me decide to either. Marshmallows for Breakfast is largely surrounding the main character, Kendra, who seems to have a problem with staying where she is. There is something in her pass which she insists on running away from and won't open up to anybody about it and so on moving to Britain from Australia, she envows to start a ...  Read the complete review

lonestarsky
Premium Review Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson: Light and fluffy - a bit like marshmallows! (806 words)
by - written on 08/10/08 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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PLOT Kendra Tamale returns to the UK from Australia, clearly running from something that has happened to her. She is now hoping for a peaceful life so has rented a flat in the grounds of a house, and doesn't intend to see much of her landlord. However the book starts with her landlords twin children walking in on her while she's in the shower so she knows her life isn't going to be as simple as she'd hoped! She soon meets their father Kyle, who has recently split from the twin's mother and is struggling to cope. When the twins later call on Kendra to tell her that they"can't wake daddy" and Kendra finds him in a drunken stupour, she becomes embroiled in ...  Read the complete review

owensmum
Premium Review Another heart wrenching read from Dorothy Koomson (687 words)
by - written on 09/05/08 (Very useful, 113 readings)
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Marshmallows for breakfast is the 3rd book I have read by Dorothy Koomson and it is her follow up novel to the successful My Best Friends Girl which I thoroughly enjoyed. The main character in the story is Kendra Tamale and she has just returned to the UK from Australia. We find out from flashbacks and snippets of information that are fed to us throughout the book that something has happened to her out there and she left the country in a rush. Further to this, something else has happened earlier in her life in the UK and was her reason for moving to Australia in the first place. These secrets' become apparant at the end of the book. Although these ...  Read the complete review

jo1976
Premium Review Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson: Marshmallows for Breakfast didn't satisfy me! (917 words)
by - written on 25/10/09 (Very useful, 92 readings)
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I read one of Dorothy Koomson's earlier novels, "My Best Friend's Girl", a while ago and was literally sobbing my way throughout the very first chapter! As it happened, I didn't feel that the rest of the novel lived up to the opening (or to the hype) but I did come away with the feeling that I'd like to read some more of the author's work in future. I picked 'Marshmallows for Breakfast' from a charity shop a few months ago and started reading it almost immediately. Months later, and the book was still sitting on my bedside cabinet, unfinished, despite repeated attempts to get into the story. From an avid (and very quick) book reader like myself, that ...  Read the complete review

 

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