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Showing posts with label Millie's Fling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Millie's Fling. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

Millie's Fling by Jill Mansell (Book Review)


Title: Millie's Fling
Author: Jill Mansell
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark


First sentence: The view from where they were sitting was spectacular, but Millie Brady couldn't help wondering why Neil had driven her up here today to Tresanter Point.


My synopsis: The book starts out as Millie's boyfriend is asking her to move in with him (she thought he was going to propose). But before she can answer, she is distracted. A woman arrives and launches herself out of her car and begins to pace at the edge of the cliff. She becomes so focused on the thought that the woman is going to jump than rather than give her boyfriend an answer - she gets out of the car and runs toward the woman.

Her concerns were right, she realizes, as she sees the suicide notes lined up on the dash of the woman's car. She discovers that the woman is Orla Hart, a best-selling romance novelist whose own marriage is on the rocks. Millie ends up talking her out of jumping and a friendship between the two women blossom. Orla decides her next book is going to be based on events in Millie's life and invites her to Cornwall for the summer. She is bound and determined to find Millie the man of her dreams!

My thoughts: Jill Mansell never fails to delight me with her books. Her characters are always warm and far from perfect - which makes them so lovable! She also provides us with a supporting cast of characters that equally as humorous. This is my third Jill Mansell book this year - and while I was a little intimidated at the length the first time I read one of her books - they are so engaging that you are done before you know it!

Millie's Fling
Publisher/Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-1402218347
512 pages


Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Teaser Tuesday 9-8-2009


TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!




Any monkey-nut jokes, Millie decided, and she'd be forced to run over his foot. Plus, he'd better not mention bananas.
(p137, Millie's Fling by Jill Mansell - uncorrected copy)



Teaser Tuesday is hosted at Should be Reading. Come on over and share your teaser, too!






Millie's Fling
Publisher/Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Sept 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4022-1834-7
512 pages


Monday, June 22, 2009

ARC Arrival: Millie's Fling

Millie's Fling by Jill Mansell

Publisher: Sourcebooks

I received this ARC from Danielle at Sourcebooks. I have loved her 2 previous books and can't wait to read this one!

About the book: Millie's life is about to turn around. . .

Bestselling romance author Orla Hart decides to make her friend Millie Brady the heroine of her next novel, even though Millie doubts that her boring life will inspire a steamy page-turner. But whatever excitement doesn't happen to Millie naturally, Orla is secretly determined to stir up. . .

While Millie faithfully recounts the hilarious mishaps of her friends and family, Orla schemes to match Millie with the perfect romantic hero to really spice things up. But Orla doesn't know that Millie has deliberately left out the juiciest recent development. . .(from the back cover)

About the author: Jill Mansell lives with her partner and children in Bristol, and writes full time. Actually, that's not true; she watches TV, eats gum drops, admires the rugby players training in the sports field behind her house, and spends hours on the internet marveling at how many other writers have blogs. Only when she's completely run out of ways to procrastinate does she write.

Millie's Fling
Publisher/Publication Date: Sourcebooks, September 2009
ISBN: 9781402218347
512 pages

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