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New Beginnings
A warm, witty and wise debut about the ups and downs of life as a TV presenter Christie Lynch's life is about to change -- for ever. A journalist and single mother of two, she can't believe her luck when she is spotted by a talent agent during an appearance on daytime TV show, Tart Talk. Soon the nation's sweetheart, Christie can't help but love her new job and, for the first time in years, she can mend her leaking roof and buy her kids, Libby and Freddie, a few treats. But as her career soars, Christie's forced to spend more and more time away from her kids and from Richard -- the gorgeous single dad she recently met at the school gate. Can Christie find a way to balance her role as a mother with her increasingly demanding job? And will she make it in the cut-throat world of TV? Whatever happens, Christie's going to give it all she's got! Warm, witty and wise, New Beginnings is a behind-the-scenes look at the ups and downs in the life of a daytime TV presenter.
423 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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Fern Britton
33 books416 followersFern Britton, an English television presenter, was born on 17 July 1957 in Ealing, London. She was educated at Dr Challoner's High School in Little Chalfont and underwent training in stage management at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She is the daughter of the English actor, Tony Britton and Ruth Britton. Fern Britton spent the early days of her life at Buckinghamshire. Her older sister, Cherry Britton, is a script writer and her younger half brother, Jasper Britton, is an actor. She is married to the celebrity chef, Phil Vickery and lives with her family at Holmer Green in Buckinghamshire.
Fern Britton worked with a touring theatre company and in 1979, she started her career with Westward Television in Plymouth. She worked as a newsreader and continuity announcer on Westward Diary, the nightly local bulletin. Later, she switched to present BBC’s Southwest news programme, Spotlight. She became a known as the youngest national news presenter to present News After Noon on BBC1. Fern Britton then moved to work for TVS in Southampton, where she hosted the South edition of the news programme, Coast to Coast, together with Fred Dinenage. She has also presented other programmes, like Coast to Coast People, The Television Show and Magic Moments.
Since then, Fern Britton has hosted several programmes, which include Carlton Television's After Five, BBC's Breakfast Time, London News Network's London Tonight and BBC 1’s Holiday. She also featured in the first two series of The Brian Conley Show and in 1994, Fern Britton went onto present the famous television cookery game show, Ready Steady Cook. She hosted the show for a long span of six years until she was succeeded by chef, Ainsley Harriott. She joined hands with the British television presenter, Phillip Schofield to host the famous television magazine show This Morning. Since 1999, Fern Britton has been hosting the show and the couple was known for their hilarious presentation. The show was a big hit and won the 2003 & 2004 TV Quick Award for the ‘Best Daytime Viewing’. It also clinched the 2004 National Television Award for the ‘Most Popular Daytime Show’.
Fern Britton anchored the Pride of Britain Awards in 2002 and was one among the panellists on the satirical panel show, Have I Got News for You.
In 2006, the song, “The Fern Britton Experience”, which featured in the album, Hang The DJ was named after her by the UK DJ Shitmat. She hosted the reality television show, Soapstar Superstar, and the British Soap Awards 2006. At the Royal Albert Hall, on 31 May 2007, Fern Britton presented the Classical BRIT Awards and also co-presented the British Soap Awards that year.
Fern Britton anchored her own ITV1 Saturday night series, That's What I Call Television in 2007. In December 2007, she went on a secret trip to Basra to broadcast behind-the-scenes footage of the troops. She appeared as a guest presenter for the show, Have I Got News for You on 27 April 2007 and again on 17 October 2008. On 12 January 2008, she was the winner in the first episode of Thank God You're Here, a television comedy series hosted by Paul Merton. In April 2008, Fern Britton together with her colleague, Phillip Schofield was the presenter of the revived 'all star' version of the super hit ITV show, Mr and Mrs. The show was broadcast on Saturday nights as a six-part series.
Apart from television presentations, Fern Britton has also featured in advertisements for Ryvita Minis. She performed the title role in a Cinderella pantomime in 1988. In March 1998, her first book, Fern’s Family Favourites, was released and in October the following year, she launched her second book Winter Treats and Summer Delights. Fern, My Story was published in November 2008 by Michael Joseph and it ranked among the Top Ten Bestseller list by The Sunday Times.
Fern Britton worked with a touring theatre company and in 1979, she started her career with Westward Television in Plymouth. She worked as a newsreader and continuity announcer on Westward Diary, the nightly local bulletin. Later, she switched to present BBC’s Southwest news programme, Spotlight. She became a known as the youngest national news presenter to present News After Noon on BBC1. Fern Britton then moved to work for TVS in Southampton, where she hosted the South edition of the news programme, Coast to Coast, together with Fred Dinenage. She has also presented other programmes, like Coast to Coast People, The Television Show and Magic Moments.
Since then, Fern Britton has hosted several programmes, which include Carlton Television's After Five, BBC's Breakfast Time, London News Network's London Tonight and BBC 1’s Holiday. She also featured in the first two series of The Brian Conley Show and in 1994, Fern Britton went onto present the famous television cookery game show, Ready Steady Cook. She hosted the show for a long span of six years until she was succeeded by chef, Ainsley Harriott. She joined hands with the British television presenter, Phillip Schofield to host the famous television magazine show This Morning. Since 1999, Fern Britton has been hosting the show and the couple was known for their hilarious presentation. The show was a big hit and won the 2003 & 2004 TV Quick Award for the ‘Best Daytime Viewing’. It also clinched the 2004 National Television Award for the ‘Most Popular Daytime Show’.
Fern Britton anchored the Pride of Britain Awards in 2002 and was one among the panellists on the satirical panel show, Have I Got News for You.
In 2006, the song, “The Fern Britton Experience”, which featured in the album, Hang The DJ was named after her by the UK DJ Shitmat. She hosted the reality television show, Soapstar Superstar, and the British Soap Awards 2006. At the Royal Albert Hall, on 31 May 2007, Fern Britton presented the Classical BRIT Awards and also co-presented the British Soap Awards that year.
Fern Britton anchored her own ITV1 Saturday night series, That's What I Call Television in 2007. In December 2007, she went on a secret trip to Basra to broadcast behind-the-scenes footage of the troops. She appeared as a guest presenter for the show, Have I Got News for You on 27 April 2007 and again on 17 October 2008. On 12 January 2008, she was the winner in the first episode of Thank God You're Here, a television comedy series hosted by Paul Merton. In April 2008, Fern Britton together with her colleague, Phillip Schofield was the presenter of the revived 'all star' version of the super hit ITV show, Mr and Mrs. The show was broadcast on Saturday nights as a six-part series.
Apart from television presentations, Fern Britton has also featured in advertisements for Ryvita Minis. She performed the title role in a Cinderella pantomime in 1988. In March 1998, her first book, Fern’s Family Favourites, was released and in October the following year, she launched her second book Winter Treats and Summer Delights. Fern, My Story was published in November 2008 by Michael Joseph and it ranked among the Top Ten Bestseller list by The Sunday Times.
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July 16, 2013
one and a half stars. I was looking for something light and humorous. I thought it would be a light read. It was that, but in the end not really not sure why I continued reading this as the main character Christie annoyed me as she made one bad choice after another. Maybe it's me but I found it hard to believe anyone could be that gullible. At times it disintegrated into farce. Perhaps it may appeal to others but it wasn't my cup of tea.
February 3, 2015
I like Fern Britton as a TV presenter and was interested to see how she would adapt to chick-lit writing. This book is definitely a very light read for which you have to suspend your credibility. The protagonist, Christie, takes over presenting an evening TV talk show while the current presenter is absent and we see how this impinges on her life and that of her family. Though the plot is interesting enough, Christie seems to be unable to see the truth when it is right before her eyes (her agent's true character) and I could foresee the ending from the first time we met the agent - unlike Christie. There were some very unbelievable incidents in this work (I won't give spoilers) which meant that, for me, it was hard to take the book seriously and Fern Britton also has an annoying habit of using the "Some time later/When the holiday was over" ploy which means something is introduced but then not covered. However, if you want an easy read and are not too bothered about detail or credibility this will satisfy.
July 10, 2014
Reading time at the moment is a precious, precious thing, and therefore I was surprised to find out that this book by Fern Britton was 400 pages long; it seemed like a quick read.
I'm not suggesting or one moment that the quality was tip-top/first class/top drawer, but it was sufficiently okay.
I was intrigued to see how a fairly well known Z list celeb would handle the change to writer ... they all seem to be doing it don't they? ... and was actually pleasantly surprised.
I can't say that I would actively seek out more of her work, but if I ever get the chance to lounge by a pool, this would be the kind of un-demanding read that would make a perfect read a bit, sip a bit, read a bit more.
A fuller version of this post can be found on my Blog #452
I'm not suggesting or one moment that the quality was tip-top/first class/top drawer, but it was sufficiently okay.
I was intrigued to see how a fairly well known Z list celeb would handle the change to writer ... they all seem to be doing it don't they? ... and was actually pleasantly surprised.
I can't say that I would actively seek out more of her work, but if I ever get the chance to lounge by a pool, this would be the kind of un-demanding read that would make a perfect read a bit, sip a bit, read a bit more.
A fuller version of this post can be found on my Blog #452
July 31, 2016
When this book opened, I had one of those "oh-no-this-will-be-good" moments, because it opened so very well and so NOT predictably. That was an empty promise, though. The main character, Christie, is incredibly daft and gullible up to an unrealistic point. In her quest for self-worth, she mostly dismisses her poor children; I just found it all disappointing.
My main plus point: the writing was incredibly compelling!
My main plus point: the writing was incredibly compelling!
January 13, 2016
It was ok a nice lighthearted read, a bit predictable and unrealistic but a nice easy read perfect for the cold nights
March 21, 2025
A tale of how women are facing challenges to both of their passion and personal life ! ♥️
June 28, 2014
Found it an easy read and enjoyable to read. Christine looses her husband and has to care for her two children along with balancing work with her mothers help, she meets a new man and the eldest child struggles to accept all that is happening but with in time comes round to it and excepts her mothers new partner. Looking forward to reading more of Ferns books.
May 21, 2011
When Christie Lynch’s husband Nick dies suddenly, her entire world is changed and she finds herself going from happily married mother of two to single mother of two. Christie’s life takes an unexpected turn upwards, though, when she’s offered the chance of joining panellist show Tart Talk. From there, Christie’s life is continually on the rise as she finds herself presenting on top show Good Evening Britain. Suddenly, she has the money to treat her two kids Fred and Libby and she’s able to begin the repairs on her falling-down house. But as Christie becomes more in-demand as a presenter, her home life begins to fall apart as she finds she has little time to devote to her two kids. Life is further complicated when she meets Richard. Can Christie keep her personal life and her professional life separate and when push comes to the shove, which will Christie choose?
I must admit, when I heard Fern Britton was writing a Chick Lit novel, I wasn’t entirely interested. Over these past couple of years there’s been an influx of celebrities deciding to try their hand at Chick Lit (why they don’t write a crime novel I’ll never know…): Coleen Nolan, Sharon Osbourne, Martine McCutcheon, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson so it just seemed that Fern was following in their footsteps trying to cash in a quick buck by writing a novel. I know it’s wrong of me to lump all of the celebrities into the same bucket, but for the most part they do just seem to be in it for the money than any real desire to be an author. Not that that’s stopped me from reading celebrities novels, of course (I do have to see if they’re worth reading after all). So when New Beginnings by Fern arrived in my mailbox I was intrigued. I wasn’t looking to read it, just to take a peek at the first page, but I ended up getting stuck into it.
New Beginnings is an age-old tale of home life versus working life as Christie finds herself plunged into the world of TV presenting after a stint on Tart Talk where she goes to talk about her recent bereavement. Christie then find herself taking over for Gilly on Good Evening Britain when she leaves to have triplets and all of a sudden, Christie is the new nations sweetheart, helped along by agent Julia Keen. Meanwhile, though, her life with her kids suffers as she find herself rushing around with no time to spare due to her new commitments. I must admit, when I first heard about Fern writing a novel I assumed she was going to base it entirely on herself. As we all know, Fern is most famous for hosting This Morning until she left in 2009, and that’s the route I thought she’d take the book in. She doesn’t, as Good Evening Britain is an evening magazine show but there are similarities and Fern has obviously drawn on all of her TV experiences in her life to put into her novel.
I was very pleasantly surprised with the book. Yes, Fern has set it unadventurously in the TV world, but she’s done a good job of it. It doesn’t read like an auto-biography, although I haven’t exactly followed Fern’s career so I may be wrong. For me, I could easily forget it was written by Fern Britton and I just enjoyed the story for what it was rather than who had written it. There’s nothing worse if you judge a story before you’ve even read it, unless it’s written by Katie Price. So I went into the book with an open mind and thoroughly enjoyed getting an in-depth look into the TV world. Because Fern has spent so long in TV, she has plenty of stories she can tell and put into her writing that a lot of people can’t, and which most authors would instead have to rely on research for but because Fern has on-hands experience it makes the reading all the better.
The characters are as you’d expect them to be. I liked Christie although I thought she could be a bit tactless at times (the whole Christmas Day incident was a bit embarrassing to say the least) and her lack of “Oomph” when it came to showing her agent who really was the boss was a bit annoying, but for the most part I liked her. Christie’s mum and sister Mel feature regularly; her mother’s a bit bossy and snooty but I liked her sister, Mel, she was lovely and the perfect tonic at times. I liked Christie’s two kids, I thought they were very well written and perceived. Along the way Christie acquires many new friends, gay-best-friend Frank who was a totally cliched doll; her uber-agent Julia who was a bit of a cow and Richard, a single man with a son who lives near Christie. I quite enjoyed the mixed bag of characters, there was someone for everyone in there it has to be said.
New Beginnings didn’t exactly blow me away, but I did enjoy the read nonetheless. I wanted to continue Christie’s story and see how it would all pan out and I thought the ending was very intriguing. It was totally and absolutely easy to see how it was all going to end, particularly pertaining Julia but I liked how it was all built up despite the less-than-satisfactory and very-easy-to-guess conclusion. One thing that always fascinates me is the names of the shows because whenever TV is written about in a novel, there’s never any ITV or BBC or This Morning, it’s always TV7 or Channel Six and it does make me cringe a bit. I’m not sure if there are laws against using names like ITV, but I’d like authors to be a bit more imaginative! Nevertheless New Beginnings is worth a read. It’s very easy to read and I assume Fern wrote it herself, and I definitely believe Fern could have a career as an author, I’d certainly read more of her work. It just goes to show, there are some celebrities who are able to write a good novel. Personally, though, I do think their books would be more well-received if they wrote them under a pseudonym, but that’s another story… Either way, you won’t be disappointed with Fern’s debut effort.
I must admit, when I heard Fern Britton was writing a Chick Lit novel, I wasn’t entirely interested. Over these past couple of years there’s been an influx of celebrities deciding to try their hand at Chick Lit (why they don’t write a crime novel I’ll never know…): Coleen Nolan, Sharon Osbourne, Martine McCutcheon, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson so it just seemed that Fern was following in their footsteps trying to cash in a quick buck by writing a novel. I know it’s wrong of me to lump all of the celebrities into the same bucket, but for the most part they do just seem to be in it for the money than any real desire to be an author. Not that that’s stopped me from reading celebrities novels, of course (I do have to see if they’re worth reading after all). So when New Beginnings by Fern arrived in my mailbox I was intrigued. I wasn’t looking to read it, just to take a peek at the first page, but I ended up getting stuck into it.
New Beginnings is an age-old tale of home life versus working life as Christie finds herself plunged into the world of TV presenting after a stint on Tart Talk where she goes to talk about her recent bereavement. Christie then find herself taking over for Gilly on Good Evening Britain when she leaves to have triplets and all of a sudden, Christie is the new nations sweetheart, helped along by agent Julia Keen. Meanwhile, though, her life with her kids suffers as she find herself rushing around with no time to spare due to her new commitments. I must admit, when I first heard about Fern writing a novel I assumed she was going to base it entirely on herself. As we all know, Fern is most famous for hosting This Morning until she left in 2009, and that’s the route I thought she’d take the book in. She doesn’t, as Good Evening Britain is an evening magazine show but there are similarities and Fern has obviously drawn on all of her TV experiences in her life to put into her novel.
I was very pleasantly surprised with the book. Yes, Fern has set it unadventurously in the TV world, but she’s done a good job of it. It doesn’t read like an auto-biography, although I haven’t exactly followed Fern’s career so I may be wrong. For me, I could easily forget it was written by Fern Britton and I just enjoyed the story for what it was rather than who had written it. There’s nothing worse if you judge a story before you’ve even read it, unless it’s written by Katie Price. So I went into the book with an open mind and thoroughly enjoyed getting an in-depth look into the TV world. Because Fern has spent so long in TV, she has plenty of stories she can tell and put into her writing that a lot of people can’t, and which most authors would instead have to rely on research for but because Fern has on-hands experience it makes the reading all the better.
The characters are as you’d expect them to be. I liked Christie although I thought she could be a bit tactless at times (the whole Christmas Day incident was a bit embarrassing to say the least) and her lack of “Oomph” when it came to showing her agent who really was the boss was a bit annoying, but for the most part I liked her. Christie’s mum and sister Mel feature regularly; her mother’s a bit bossy and snooty but I liked her sister, Mel, she was lovely and the perfect tonic at times. I liked Christie’s two kids, I thought they were very well written and perceived. Along the way Christie acquires many new friends, gay-best-friend Frank who was a totally cliched doll; her uber-agent Julia who was a bit of a cow and Richard, a single man with a son who lives near Christie. I quite enjoyed the mixed bag of characters, there was someone for everyone in there it has to be said.
New Beginnings didn’t exactly blow me away, but I did enjoy the read nonetheless. I wanted to continue Christie’s story and see how it would all pan out and I thought the ending was very intriguing. It was totally and absolutely easy to see how it was all going to end, particularly pertaining Julia but I liked how it was all built up despite the less-than-satisfactory and very-easy-to-guess conclusion. One thing that always fascinates me is the names of the shows because whenever TV is written about in a novel, there’s never any ITV or BBC or This Morning, it’s always TV7 or Channel Six and it does make me cringe a bit. I’m not sure if there are laws against using names like ITV, but I’d like authors to be a bit more imaginative! Nevertheless New Beginnings is worth a read. It’s very easy to read and I assume Fern wrote it herself, and I definitely believe Fern could have a career as an author, I’d certainly read more of her work. It just goes to show, there are some celebrities who are able to write a good novel. Personally, though, I do think their books would be more well-received if they wrote them under a pseudonym, but that’s another story… Either way, you won’t be disappointed with Fern’s debut effort.
October 7, 2017
Lovely comfort blanket reading! Bargain from the Church Book Sale. Great characters and a story that hangs together well. Delightful !
March 10, 2025
This was enjoyable and a bit predictable where the main romance was concerned. The background story was good and I found it quite interesting reading about the TV world.
September 14, 2015
An exciting novel concerning the life of Christie Lynch.
After her husband Nick dies suddenly she finds herself left alone with very little money, a huge debt Nick incurred trying to help out his financially embarrassed parents and two young children to cope with.
Struggling to make ends meet and juggling everything, a dilapidated house after they having been forced to move because of finances, the kids and finding work she finally thinks she has a big break when she meets Julia Keen, an agent who secures her tv work.
Her dreams are starting to come true, money is coming in (though strangely not as much as she has been led to believe by Julia) her mother and unconventional sister Mel helping with childcare and even meeting a new man Richard, the father of her son's friend everything seems to be slotting into place.
But suddenly her dreams are shattered as her life starts to crash around her and she due to her journalistic, investigative instincts uncovers deceit, corruption and maybe even a murder all heaped at the door of her agency.
Exciting, fast paced and full of family / work drama with a hint of spice double dealing Fern Britton has again written a higher than average "chick lit" novel with a twist.
A great read.
After her husband Nick dies suddenly she finds herself left alone with very little money, a huge debt Nick incurred trying to help out his financially embarrassed parents and two young children to cope with.
Struggling to make ends meet and juggling everything, a dilapidated house after they having been forced to move because of finances, the kids and finding work she finally thinks she has a big break when she meets Julia Keen, an agent who secures her tv work.
Her dreams are starting to come true, money is coming in (though strangely not as much as she has been led to believe by Julia) her mother and unconventional sister Mel helping with childcare and even meeting a new man Richard, the father of her son's friend everything seems to be slotting into place.
But suddenly her dreams are shattered as her life starts to crash around her and she due to her journalistic, investigative instincts uncovers deceit, corruption and maybe even a murder all heaped at the door of her agency.
Exciting, fast paced and full of family / work drama with a hint of spice double dealing Fern Britton has again written a higher than average "chick lit" novel with a twist.
A great read.
June 1, 2020
An enjoyable, light holdiay read, with an attractive book cover to catch attention. To begin with I thought it was a sterotyped picture of a world Fern Britton obviously knows very well. Was her appearance on "Tart Talk" a swipe at "Loose Women"? However I could relate to the characters with Christine as a young widow juggling a TV career and family, dependant on a tetchy mother for childcare and with a pre-teen daughter experiencing problems, and hints of an agent with a dubious reputation. Parts of the book I found very sympatheticly written such as the scene between Christine and Libby following a visit to the doctor's. A 3.5 rating as the best of the Fern Britton books I have read.
January 29, 2012
After seeing quite a few mixed reviews of this, I wasn't sure whether to buy this book. But I am glad that I decided to try it :) I was a bit dubious as to what this book would be like, with it being written by a celebrity-turned-author, but actually I have been pleasantly surprised!
I found it to be a great story, different to the usual chick-lit I read, in that it has an element of detective/mystery to it, which was different for me, but I did like it. I spent a very lazy Sunday afternoon finishing this book, and really enjoyed it.
I will definitely be looking out for her other books in the future.
I found it to be a great story, different to the usual chick-lit I read, in that it has an element of detective/mystery to it, which was different for me, but I did like it. I spent a very lazy Sunday afternoon finishing this book, and really enjoyed it.
I will definitely be looking out for her other books in the future.
April 19, 2011
This is a debut novel by Fern, I chose this novel because I like Fern as a Presenter.
I read various reviews about this book, and didn't know what to think, this book is funny in some places, but in others I got bored, it's a thick book, I managed to get through it very quickly the story was easy to follow.
Probably would recomend this book and it will be interesting to see if there is another book.
I read various reviews about this book, and didn't know what to think, this book is funny in some places, but in others I got bored, it's a thick book, I managed to get through it very quickly the story was easy to follow.
Probably would recomend this book and it will be interesting to see if there is another book.
September 1, 2011
I enjoyed reading this.Fern has a good style and this is an easy undemanding read that holds your interest.
She obviously takes the plot and characters from her own life, and gets under the skin of our heroine who is pulled this way and that between children, career, love interest and media exposure.
There's a disappointing and cliched visit to a library though, which soured the whole book for me!
She obviously takes the plot and characters from her own life, and gets under the skin of our heroine who is pulled this way and that between children, career, love interest and media exposure.
There's a disappointing and cliched visit to a library though, which soured the whole book for me!
June 15, 2014
This is the first of Fern Britton's books I've read and I probably only had it because it was being sold off at a knock down price and I needed something to kill the time. Cheap and cheerful chic lit. Demands nothing of the reader (unless you try to think of 'celebs and personalities' she may have based the characters on). Holds the attention for a long coffee break but not much more and quickly forgotten about once read.
February 4, 2015
Christie Lynch annoyed me initially as she allowed people to walk all over her. But as the story unfolds, she starts to stand up for herself, both in her private life, with her mother and her neighbour Richard, and in her working life, with Julia Keen (her agent). As a single mother, she is thrust into the spotlight when she goes from part time journalist to presenter of the evening news programme. She makes friends - and enemies - along the way.
May 4, 2014
I bought this book at Clumber Park's second hand book shop and was really looking forward to reading it. Now I've read it I have the feeling that I have read it before? It's one of those books, ok to read but not that memorable. It's a sweet story, not badly written and I quite enjoyed it but nothing spectacular.
March 26, 2015
I really liked this book light and funny in places, heartwarming and sad in others. The struggles of a TV presenter showing the ugly side if fame. How your family can be effected badly and how life can turn around v quickly I enjoyed this book. Although it felt like I was reading an autobiography although not a bad things if you love Fern Britton.
October 3, 2015
Blah... This book just didn't pique my interest. maybe it's because I'm not married and I don't know the hardships that come out of marriage or being a single mom. The story could be a bit more interesting and shorter. You find out how cut throat the entertainment business is from this book. 2 stars
December 5, 2011
When I first started reading this book I didn`t think much of it, it was very predictable. As the book continued I got hooked as it had a bit of a mystery about some of the characters. It was a bit confusing how it jumped from present day and the past, although different fonts were used.
August 2, 2014
A very enjoyable experience, a nicely rounded out romantic novel with a hint of mystery. A great slice of the dark side of the entertainment industry and the difficulties of balancing career and family, this is fluff with a bite.
August 14, 2014
Looking forward to reading this, had been told how good it was and that I wouldn't be able to put it down..... Well what a total disappointment. Very predictable and as I was reading it I was sure I had read something similar.
March 22, 2015
A good story, I liked the mystery side of it. The main character Christie does come across as slightly weak and very naive, though slightly redeems herself towards the end. I think it shows that Fern is a new writer, hopefully she will improve the more she writes, certainly potential too.
June 14, 2011
Quite enjoyed this debut novel from daytime TV star Fern Britton. She has stuck to writing what she knows about and I must admit I quite enjoyed. Light and easy to read.
April 7, 2012
An ok read not one I would read again
April 22, 2012
For a first book this is really good,can't wait to see what Fern comes up with next.
July 13, 2012
a modern day mills and Boon ...With an excuse to make the \cornish look stupid
June 9, 2014
Nice story about woman struggling to create new reality for her children, who recently lost their father. Movig, well-read, nice to have :)
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July 15, 2012Aww I liked this book...write me another please Fern!
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