contemporary British

The Girl on the Train

my take: For a quick, page turning summer read – grab this and you will be transported (ha!) along the …

"Sense and Sensibility"

my take: I really can’t help myself: this series of current authors re-writing the Austen novels is so juicy I …

The One Plus One

my take: Having loved Me Before You, I was eager to read another Jo Jo Moyes novel. Daughter Anne read …

Me Before You

my take: This is in that beautiful intersection of easy reading and social issues….Pretty Woman meets Dr. Kevorkian. Not high …

How to be a Woman

my take: Whoa. This was a tough one. The first few chapters had the book chicks emailing to see if …

The Sense of an Ending

my take: This is an odd, but good, little book. I admit that I liked it better after I found …

The Dead Father’s Club

my take: We at book chicks like to think of ourselves as Shakespeare experts since reading Will in the World. …

Little Bee

my take: I read this a year and a half ago, and, as it was pick for Book Chicks this …