Turn Up For The Book

by Julia Franklin

This is a debut novel from actress and audiobook reader Julia Franklin. 'I've read somewhere between 300 and 400 novels as audiobooks over the last 25 years,' she says, 'so I thought it was time to have a go at a novel of my own.' The result is Turn Up for the Book, a romantic comedy that begins with the breakup, one Christmas, of a marriage.Poor Viv has begun to look like the sofa she sits on most of the time. No wonder her unfaithful husband, Clive, is leaving her for a glamorous supermodel. But over the next 12 months, she will find that books and friendship will move her to a different kind of sofa altogether. Set against a background of publishing, food, and drink, oh yes, and maybe murder, Turn Up for the Book is a lovely lighthearted companion to warm you on dark winter evenings.

Genres: Audiobook

318 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 10, 2012

Reviews

[Hallie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Odd mixture - at times it was quite a moving picture of a woman whose husband leaves her and how she slowly and painfully comes into her own. At others it was a rather broad comedy of manners and at others again it verged into the ridiculously farcical. Far too many POV characters - and the bits about the Welsh builders was just annoying. Lovely reading, unsurprisingly.