Back when she was a teenager, Claire Cooper thought she had her life mapped out: she'd have a fantastic job as a corporate lawyer, she'd still be best friends with Frankie and, most importantly, she'd be married to Andy Pailes. But life never quite works out as you imagine it and finds herself stuck in a dead-end job with a failed marriage behind her and currently dating Mark, an ambulance-chasing lawyer. Claire's life is turned upside down when she finds the Dream List she wrote aged 15 mapping out the life she thought she'd have. But where did it all go wrong and what exactly happened to Claire's idol Andy Pailes? I first heard of Linda Green last year when ...  Read the complete review

Claire Cooper has a good life, she is in her thirties and has a good job working as a lawyer and a very devoted boyfriend. She thinks she is happy until her boyfriend Mark springs the surprise of a new house for them to live together in on her. She thinks about her life and when she was a teenager and remembers a list she wrote with her best friend when they were 15 and she goes and finds it. Clare Skidmore as a teenager was obsessed with footballer Andy and dreamed of marrying him and spending their lives together in a cottage and being blissfully happy but she never got that chance as she was so young. She and best friend Frankie made a list of where they ...  Read the complete review

Claire is a thirty-something legal professional who has been in a relationship with Mark for the last two years. Not long after he suggests that they move in together, she comes across The List. Twenty years earlier, she and best friend Frankie had listed their hopes/dreams for the future (who they'd be married to, how many kids they'd have, what their job would be etc). As far as the teenage Claire was concerned, she would be married to United footballer Andy Pailes (who she had a BIG crush on back then) with two kids and be working as a lawyer. While the career part isn't far off the mark, the rest didn't come true and she isn't even in touch with Frankie anymore. ...  Read the complete review

The book I will now review is - "Things I wish I had known (back when I thought I knew it all..) by Linda Green. Claire is a thirty something woman, who feels as if her life is somewhat floundering, though to state why she couldn't possibly say. She is in a job she enjoy's, and is dating a man she really likes, but for each thing she cannot claim to love either....well, not for sure anyway! After her boyfriend and fellow laywer Mark does the unbelievable, by asking her to sell her flat and go in for a new ...  Read the complete review

Linda Green's new book Things I wished I'd Known has recently been released in paperback. I brought my copy from Whsmiths and it was on offer for half price so decided to give it a try as I have not read one of her books before and I am finding I am continually trying out new authors. Claire is the main character in this book. She is a likeable character who is in her late thirties and has found her life has been jolted somewhat when she comes across a list she had wrote back in her teens with her best friend Frankie. The list the girls decided to make was about what they thought they would be doing in 20years time. When Claire comes across the list, her ...  Read the complete review