Lara Lington is a 20-something girl and life isn’t looking all that rosy for her. She just broke up with her boyfriend, her business venture with her best friend does not sound promising and she needs to assure her parents that everything in her life is just fine.
Twenties Girl
Halfway through the funeral ceremony, Lara discovers that she can hear, see and talk to the ghost of her great-aunt Sadie. Now this is not a creepy ghost story. The ghost Sadie is 20-something like Lara, and she is very fashionable and flirtatious.
Sadie cannot rest in peace until her precious dragonfly necklace is found and returned to her. This is where Lara needs to help Sadie find the missing necklace so that she will be free from the constant presence of Sadie’s ghost.
I was sad when I got to the last page of the book. I really enjoyed the entire story. It was an easy, fun read and I liked the silly things that both Sadie and Lara get into. Lara, who still refuses to get over her ex-boyfriend, would get Sadie to spy on him and report to her. In return, Lara would woo an American guy to go out on a date just so Sadie can dance with him. Of course, the guy does not know about Sadie. He will be communicating with Lara but Sadie would be the one prompting the pick-up lines.
However, I could not help noticing that there were similarities between the characters Lara and Becky Bloomwood from the Shopaholic series, also by Sophie Kinsella. Not that Lara is a shopaholic but there is the familiar optimism in her which is in Becky’s character too.
But other than that, I loved the book. If you haven’t read any of Kinsella’s books, I highly recommend Twenties Girl. It may be 400-plus pages long but you will just fly through the book because the story pulls you in and make you want to know what happens next.
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Oh, wouldn’t you like to take a peek into the diary of every woman’s dream man, Mr Darcy? If you don’t already know him, he’s that pompous guy from Jane Austen’s novel, 
. He’s rich, handsome, intelligent, well-mannered but has problems making new friends.
is written entirely in the form of a diary where Mr Darcy pens down all his thoughts and ‘secrets’. Yay, right??? I mean, you must want to know how he felt the first time he met Elizabeth Bennet and how he dealt with his feelings for her. When did he even start liking her? What did he think of her? You can find the answers to these questions in his diary.
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A Hollywood forensic handwriting expert, Claudia Rose, finds herself unwillingly entangled in the private life of her client, the young and beautiful Paige Sorensen. Paige’s much older husband, Torg, has died of a stroke, leaving her his entire estate and the Sorensen Academy, a school for girls with ‘special emotional needs’.
is a forensic handwriting mystery that will keep you turning the pages fast to find out what’s next. I’ve not read any kind of handwriting mystery before but I can say this was an enjoyable and enlightening book. There is so much to be learned from a person’s handwriting.
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Olivia Larsen feels lost and lonely after the death of her twin sister, Violet. To start over, she and her parents move to San Francisco where she attends a new school with a new challenge in making friends. 
wasn’t too fantastical despite having a dressmaker who provided magical dresses. It also explores on dealing with the death of a loved one, which is not easy for a teenager to cope, especially if it’s a very close twin sister.
, in which the magical dresses make an appearance again!
No Christian kid is too ever too young to get to know the Bible. This is why 
is the perfect first glimpse of bible stories for a young child.
In the village of Cibblesham, April Dean is regarded as the village idiot, just because she is deaf and dumb. Even though she is already in her teens, she cannot read or write. Her father died when she was young and she only has her mother to care for her.
deals with important issues such as mistreatment towards the disabled. April is an example of an unfortunate individual who has to suffer for her condition, which she never asked for. She is misunderstood and looked down on just because she is different.
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