The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Diva - Sarah May

Kate Hunter is happily married to husband Robert, and together they have two children. They have a lovely home on the posh Prendergast Road in London, but it isn't enough for Kate. She is desperate for her son Findlay to get into illustrious St Anthony's, the best school around and the one where all her friends are vying for places. But beneath all the false pleasantries and pretence, Kate and all of her friends have their own reasons for being miserable. Will they open up to their friends about their real dilemmas or is putting on a brave face more important than letting each other know they're only human? I haven't read any Sarah May novels before but I do ...  Read the complete review

After managing to work my through the books I received off my mum for my birthday, (my mum bought me the entire twilight series!), I decided to start the books my sister brought for me, hence the review. The book I will now review is - "The rise and fall of a domestic diva, by Sarah May" I have a terrible habit of judging a book by it's cover, so when I first saw this book I was more than hopeful of a great read, the cover is vibrant and eye catching in colour and design with the tag line that this book is a "black hearted soap opera" and also likened to Desperate housewives, I suddenly felt ready for a change from reading about ...  Read the complete review

I do read a lot, and I recently saw this book in the chart is my local bookstore, and on the cover it has a quote from Elle magazine and on described on the back cover as "the perfect read" by Penny Smith. So I purchased it. The cover also labels this as a 'darkly comic tale', and the story centres about the families living on Prendergast Road, who all have a four year old, and are all trying to get their child an admission place in the best school in the area, and how far they would go to acheive this. This book definitely isn't light-hearted and humourous and if the title make this book sound like a girly 'chick lit' title, it really ...  Read the complete review