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The Seven Year Itch - Kate Morris

Description: ISBN 0141034033 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Kate Morris / Paperback / 384 Pages / Book is published 2009-05-07 by Penguin

Newest Review: ... I got the chance to review her latest novel, The Seven Year Itch. I actually thought this was her debut novel until I read on ... more

... the author biography at the beginning of the novel that it's her second novel. Her first - according to Amazon - was Single Girl's Diary and released 12 years ago so quite a space between the books. The Seven Year Itch is told in first-person and our narrator is Ellie. She's been married to Jack for seven years and they have 2 children - Jed and Maud - and an au pair, Petra. Along with Tilda they make up the main characters of The Seven Year Itch. Oh and not forgetting new neighbour Mark... Ellie came across quite...more

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The Seven Year Itch - Kate Morris: It didn't seem like a seven year itch to me (714 words)
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*****THE SYNOPSIS***** Meet Ellie. She's been married to Jack for seven years, has two occasionally-adorable-but-mostly-demanding children and is about to open a café with her friend, Tilda. But Jack is a soap actor whose long-running character has been killed off, leaving him hanging around the house and getting under the feet of Petra, an au pair too glamorous for her own good - even if she is a dab hand with glitter and glue. Meanwhile Ellie's excitement about the café is making her marriage seem dreary in comparison and when the gorgeous Mark moves in next door (with a wife in tow, admittedly) she asks herself when she and Jack went ... Read the complete review