Michele Gorman's Blog

During lockdown, my husband and I started our own business: Honey Bee Good. We hand-make reusable beeswax food wraps! I'm now covered in wax most of the time and couldn't be happier :-) Please do have a look at us: https://honeybeegood.co.uk/

View this post on Instagram Do you loan your books? I gleefully pressed this into the hands of a friend, but can't remember who it was, and I've missed it on my shelf ever since. So when I recently ran across it in a charity shop, I snapped up another copy because I loved it so much! From the description: Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to

View this post on Instagram Now that I've read this as well as The Testaments, I'm not sure that the Booker Prize should have been split... Evaristo's telling of the women's stories is rich and varied, with beautiful writing and characters that I cared very much about. I would have been happy to see her take the 2019 prize alone. What do you think? Have you read it as well

View this post on Instagram Oh my, the writing in this book is phenomenal! It's rich, nuanced, complex. It's a black forest gateau of a book: an indulgence to savour slowly rather than to fly through on a binge. A post shared by Author | Reader | Cake Lover (@michelegormanuk) on Jan 2, 2020 at 10:29am PST

View this post on Instagram I love that this is #romcomfebruary (thanks to @notinjersey for suggesting it!) And thanks to HarperCollins for my copy of If I Never Met You. I've loved Mhairi McFarlane's writing ever since I read her debut, and If I Never Met You didn't disappoint! With her signature humour, McFarlane tells the story of recently dumped Laurie and serial cad,

View this post on Instagram HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME! The day has finally come, when my little book meets its US readers, and I hope you'll love it Amazon link is in my bio. SHE NEEDS A GROOM. HE NEEDS A GREEN CARD... When rising social media star, Nelly Roberts, is left in the lurch with not just a wedding but also the country’s biggest

View this post on Instagram I SO enjoyed this book! I was excited to read it when it first came out, but then saw very mixed reviews, so I prioritized other books first. I’m really glad I finally got to read it! I thought the writing was excellent, and was intrigued by the main character, Arthur Less. The author gave me snippets of history throughout the current story, and that

View this post on Instagram I've seen so much praise for this book, but have only now read it, and part of me wishes I hadn't, because I want that feeling of love love LOVING it all over again! This is one of my top reads of the past few years. I even took the big hardback on holiday with me, in my hand luggage; THAT's how much I wanted to keep reading. A post shared by

View this post on Instagram Wow, this blew me away! If the incredibly original and thought-provoking premise of this wasn't enough to keep me turning the pages, then Julie Cohen's wonderfully impacting prose was. The story of a single baby born but two lives lived, one as a male and one as a female, and the ways their lives were different as a result, or weren't,

My next novel will publish globally on August 31st, and you can start reading it now! Michele aka Lilly xo The Not So Perfect Plan to Save Friendship House Lilly Bartlett Excerpt copyright © 2018 Michele Gorman Chapter 1  ‘Well, Mum, I’ve really got to hand it to you this time,’ I tell her, yanking at the snug waistband of my dress. My comment gets carried away, though, by all the