The Model Wife - Julia Llewellyn

Luke Norton fifty something tv news presenter has it all and then some. Not content with a wife, three children and an enormous house in a swanky part of London Luke likes to play the field, both home and away, with a string of conquests dotted throughout the globe and a girlfriend on his doorstep. Life takes an interesting but predictable twist when Lukes girlfriend, a model, becomes pregnant and his wife finds out. The girlfriend rapidly becomes wife number two and wife number one, a newspaper columnist, sets about rediscovering herself whilst documenting the demise of the cad in her weekly tattle tale column. It's a classic case of the grass is never ...  Read the complete review

I picked this up in my local library last week as (this sounds silly!), I liked the front cover! After giving the back page a once over, it was soon mine for three whole weeks! I love books and after reading Jade Goody's diaries recently I needed a good old chick lit to cheer me up. Wrong choice! I wouldn't go so far as to say the book was depressing, but given the similarities to my own life and the main character in the book who is finding her only conversation is with her young daughter, and her husband works all the time, this was all I needed! The book had a good story, was written well and followed a few different characters, the majority of whom were likeable! The ...  Read the complete review

I'm forever browsing Amazon for the latest book releases to try to find something new that catches my eye, and I've been lucky lately because there has been quite an influx on new books on to the market this summer! As usual, I've been keeping my local library in business lol, and the latest one I've taken out is "The Model Wife" by an author I've not read before, Julia Llewellyn. It sounded good, and I looked forward to reading it, so here's the review. Poppy Norton is a bit of a cliché, even she admits it. She was unlucky in love until she met News Presenter, father of 3 Luke Norton. The two begin a relationship on the sly, and accidentally Poppy ...  Read the complete review