After reading "Pip", another book by the same author, I didn't think twice about buying Pillow Talk when I saw it in the shop. The Story is about Petra and Arlo, who used to be teenage sweethearts. They randomly meet again on a rainy day in a Yorkshire sweet shop. Petra works as a jeweller in London and Arlo works as a teacher in Yorkshire. I love how Freya really gets into her research, and creates such fascinating characters without skipping a single detail. Petra has a problem with sleepwalking, it seems there is something from her past bothering her. Arlo also struggles to sleep at night, also bothered by something in his past. The story is about how ...  Read the complete review

I saw Freya North discussing this book on Loose Women ages ago, and mentioned that it was inspired by a girl who sleepwalked onto a crane, a strange story I'd also heard about. When I saw it in a trainstation bookstore I picked it up, thinking that it sounded interesting. It really wasn't. The idea is actually not that bad, although its plotted in the usual chick lit style, dysfunctional woman's life made happy by meeting man. Petra is a slepwalker with a tendency to wet herself, and Arlo, the bloke she fancied at school finds it difficult to sleep. There's actually a seperate story within the book about Petra's love for an old lady she ...  Read the complete review

You know how much I like my chicklit. It has been ages since I've read anything by Freya North, mainly because I used to get her books free with Cosmo and other such magazines but now she's an established writer, she doesn't really give many of her books away free. So I was browsing through Amazon to see what offers they had and I saw this book "Pillow Talk" for £3.86. The story sounded interesting so I bought it. ...A bit about the author... Freya North was born on 21st November 1967. She's well-known for chicklit. In 1991, she gave up on her PhD to write her first novel. Her parents and friends told her to stop being silly and get ...  Read the complete review