I actually won this book at work and although the title looked familiar I had no idea if it was any good or what it would be about. I settled down to read and enjoyed it from the very first page. ~ The Main Plot ~ The main character in the book is Kamryn Matika. As the story begins she is head of a department in a media company and is enjoying a well deserved lie in for her birthday. One of the cards she receives brings unwelcome news from her estranged best friend Adele Brannon. What should have been a day of relaxation becomes a day that changes Kamryns life forever. Adele and Kamryn were best friends from their late teens. Both are ...  Read the complete review

I received My Best friend's Girl as part of a swap I did with a friend. Having already read Marshmallows for Breakfast, I had high hopes for this book, also by Dorothy Koomson. We are greeted in the beginning of the book by a lady named Lucinda (better known as Adele). She has a four year old daughter, Tegan. Adele is a single mother, and we learn very quickly that she is terminally ill. Having only a rocky relationship with her dad and stepmother, and no other friends as such to hear about, Adele tries to resurrect a past friendship with Kamryn, whom she met in college. Both ladies are now in their early thirties, and fell out a couple of ...  Read the complete review

MY BEST FRIENDS GIRL This is a fiction book wrote by a very talented woman called Dorothy Koomson. In its first few weeks it sold 90,000 copies and six weeks later it was selected for the ‘Richard and Judy Summer Reads Book Club’ and the book went on to sell over 500,000 copies. This is the 3rd book of Dorothy’s 4 books that she has published. The story is about a woman in her early 30’s called Kamryn. She is devoted to her career and has no other responsibilities and likes it that way. She has her best friend called Adele who she was friends with for many years until Adele decided to sleep with Kamryn’s boyfriend Nate. From this point on Kamryn insists ...  Read the complete review

When Adele Brannon slept and had a baby with her best friend Kamryn Matika's fiance Nate, Kamryn vowed never to talk to her best friend again. Two years later, she's living in Leeds and is happy enough with her lot, until a letter comes in the post from Adele telling Kamryn that she's ill and would like to see her. Without really thinking about what she's doing, Kamryn heads down to London to see her former best friend and finds her dying of terminal cancer. Adele asks Kamryn if she'll formally adopt her young daughter Tegan and Kamryn finds herself in a swirl of emotions as she comes to terms with her best friend dying and potentially becoming a mother to Tegan. Kamryn .  Read the complete review

'Something for the heart' was my idea when I was browsing through amazon some time ago and I hit on Dorothy Koomson's 'My Best Friend's Girl'. What I gathered from the synopsis and the readers' reviews looked promising: Two best friends, Kamryn and Del (Adele) fall out with each other after Del sleeps with Kamryn's fiancé and has his child. Some years later Kamryn gets a letter from Del asking her to visit her in hospital, she's dying of leukaemia and wants Kamryn not only to take care of her daughter but to adopt her as she's got no one else to turn to. Plot-wise not bad, full of potential, I looked forward to a moving read! I got it right from the start, the ...  Read the complete review