The Go-To Girl - Louise Bagshawe

Tuesday's Child - Louise Bagshawe

Although I ve previously reviewed Glitz by the same author, Tuesday s Child was actually the first book by Louise Bagshawe that I read. *The Plot* Lucy Evans is a dedicated tomboy. Living with her lawyer flatmate Ollie, she earns a pittance as a games reviewer and is forever broke. At one particularly bad moment, three things happen that throw Lucy s life into disarray: 1) Her games magazine is swallowed up by a rival title and she s suddenly out of a job and utterly penniless; 2) Ollie gets engaged to Annoying Victoria; and 3) Said engagement means that Lucy has to move out of the flat so that Annoying Victoria can move in. Forced to evaluate her life, Ollie throws Lucy ...

Glitz - Louise Bagshawe

look at the end! I like to read my way through an authors offerings if I like something they have written and I was very excited to find that Louise Bagshawe s new novel Glitz was coming out. It has taken the book a few months to get to the top of my to read pile but it finally did last week. Louise Bagshawe has written quite a few good novels and I have read nearly all of them. Most recently Glamour which came out last year. the plot to Glamour is quite similar to Glitz in that it follows the lives of a group of rich girls and the perks and problems wealth brings. I was quite worried that this book would be too alike but it didn t feel too same-y at all. Plot I m ...

Glitz - Louise Bagshawe

about life and the real world as they struggle to cope with their change in circumstances. My Thoughts For me, this was a return to Louise Bagshawes best. The characters at first are self involved and not entirely likeable at all, but like her other characters, they slowly develop and you get to like all of the girls and urge them on in their quests to make it on their own. Possibly the best parts of Bagshawes books are the fantastic descriptions of the clothes and jewels that the characters wear, she always writes about this in such a detailed way describing the colours and textures which is really lovely reading. As I ve mentioned, most of Louise Bagshawes ...