Author of the Week: Tilly Bagshawe
November 12th, 2009 by Chloe
This weeks Author of the Week is the great chick-lit/bonkbuster(!) author Tilly Bagshawe. I’ve read 3 of Tilly’s books now and they are incredibly readable, and absorb you in within just a few pages so she’s well worth checking out if you haven’t already! Tilly obviously has writing in the blood because her sister is fellow author Louise Bagshawe who featured as our Author of the Week a few months ago, and both sisters are equally great at what they do.
Tilly’s first novel Adored was released in 2004, and was one I read before I started reviewing. It was fantastic and quite unlike anything else I had read at that point. Since then she has released Showdown (the only book I haven’t read of Tilly’s), Do Not Disturb and Flawless. Tilly also wrote the sequel to Sidney Sheldon’s Master of the Game which was called Mistress of the Game and has been very well received by fans of both authors. Here’s about Tilly:
“Tilly Bagshawe went to Cambridge at the age of eighteen with her ten-month-old daughter in tow. At 26, she was the youngest ever partner in one of the world’s most prestigious headhunting firms. Tilly is married and divides her time between LA and London.”
Tilly’s next projects include novel Scandalous which is due in 2010, and also another Sidney Sheldon book which is titled Sidney Sheldon’s After The Darkness, so she’s been very busy! If you enjoy really fun and gritty chick lit, or you’ve read and enjoyed Louise Bagshawe’s work, then I can definitely recommend Tilly’s books to you. They’re fun, sexy and brilliant reads… what more could you ask for?!
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Though I love Louise Bagshawe I decided to try reading one of her sister’s books and bought Flawless on a whim. However, a few niggling wrong facts ruined the book for me from the start, a shame as it was a decent story. I live in the Scottish Highlands, Elgin to be precise and any who have read the book will know that it is set in my area. In accordance to Ms Bagshawe, Buckie is on the north coast of Banffshire, that is true. But it is in no way anywhere near the fictional estate which she sets as south of Inverness, therefore the characters could not pop into Buckie for church and the shops. Also, Buckie is a fishing town, not some lovely little quaint village that it is made out to be. Furthermore, the idea that the protagonist could have gone to Elgin beach in her childhood is laughable seeing as Elgin has no beach. The nearest beach is roughly four miles away at Lossiemouth.
It is a shame that these geographical mistakes were made because I know I won’t be the only one from this area to read the book and be a little peeved about the lack of clarification of hard facts.
Sorry about the rant but I feel they are valid points.
Rose and Shonagh