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Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson

 
Description: ISBN 075153708X / Author: Dorothy Koomson / Genre: Fiction / When Kendra Tamale returns to UK from Australia she rents a room from Kyle, 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 ... more
Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson ... 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: ... want to happen when she rented the annex room from him. All Kendra wanted to do was get up, go to work, come home and go to ... more

 ... bed before starting the process over again. What are her secrets? Why has she returned to the UK in such a hurry? There is a lot of suspense and intrigue circling around the plot in this book. It really does keep the reader guessing right to the end. Kendra realises that just because she wants to be alone, she can't shut two small children out, and a new relationship is formed. I wont discuss what happens as it could lead to spoilers, but believe me when I say there is a lot happening in this book, but it's a lot...more

kingfisher111
Premium Review Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson: The best meal of the day! (913 words)
by kingfisher111 - written on 23/03/08 (Very useful, 136 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 ...

lonestarsky
Premium Review Light and fluffy - a bit like marshmallows! (806 words)
by lonestarsky - written on 08/10/08 (Very useful, 40 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 ...

owensmum
Premium Review Marshmallows for Breakfast - Dorothy Koomson: Another heart wrenching read from Dorothy Koomson (687 words)
by owensmum - written on 09/05/08 (Very useful, 111 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 ...

 

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