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Spilt Milk, Black Coffee - Helen Cross

Description: ISBN 0747597901 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Helen Cross / Hardcover / 288 Pages / Book is published 2009-05-04 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Newest Review: ... are many of her friends and family who would love to wash their hands of her, they find it impossible to do so. This is ... more

... particularly true for her daughter Elle and her colleague Amir who both try very hard to find the good in her. It is also through the eyes of these two characters that the story is told, with chapters alternating between the two. I liked the way this enabled the reader to see Jackie from two entirely different perspectives. Amir starts off as the storyteller. His world, growing up in a strict Muslim family, could not be more different from Jackie's. He is under pressure to find a suitable bride but somehow no one compa...more

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Spilt Milk, Black Coffee - Helen Cross: No use crying over spilt milk! (739 words)
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Reading Spilt Milk, Black Coffee is a little like watching Big Brother or The Jeremy Kyle Show. It's compelling but you don't really know why. It's probably because the main character, Jackie Johnson, a forty something shop assistant, would not seem at all out of place on that type of show. At the start of the book her friends are waiting for her to show up at her third wedding to a man she hardly knows. She has a string of disastrous relationships behind her including one with a teenage boy and another with a coach driver approaching retirement. She has recently achieved 'celebrity status' after jetting off on holiday for a week leaving her twelve year old daughter Elle ... Read the complete review