Chick Lit Classic: The Yorkshire Pudding Club by Milly Johnson
Posted on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 by Chloe
Chick Lit Classics is a regular feature on Chick Lit Reviews where we highlight the books we feel are classics of the chick lit genre. Feel free to discuss our choices in the comments section!
I have to say I did struggle to pick a classic this week, so I went off upstairs and had a look at my bookshelves to see if there was a book that would jump out at me. One did, and although it’s only a 2007 release, I think The Yorkshire Pudding Club by Milly Johnson is a must-read for anyone who loves brilliantly written heart-warming books. My nan actually lent me this one and told me I’d love it, and she was right. Milly’s easy to read writing style and characters that you’ll care about ensure you won’t be able to put this down, and for a debut novel, it’s just superb. I love the look of the cover though, and they are redesigning it which I wish they wouldn’t because I think it’s so different! Anyway, if you haven’t read any of Milly’s book before, pick up a copy of The Yorkshire Pudding Club. You won’t regret it.
You can read my review of The Yorkshire Pudding Club here.
“Three South Yorkshire friends, all on the cusp of 40, fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol. For Helen, it’s a dream come true, although her husband is not as thrilled about it as she had hoped. Not only wrestling with painful ghosts of the past, Helen has to deal with the fact that her outwardly perfect marriage is crumbling before her eyes. For Janey, it is an unmitigated disaster as she has just been offered the career break of a life-time. And she has no idea either how it could possibly have happened, seeing as she and her ecstatic husband George were always so careful over contraception. For Elizabeth, it is mind-numbing, because she knows people like her shouldn’t have children. Damaged by her dysfunctional childhood and emotionally lost, she not only has to contend with carrying a child she doubts she can ever love, but she also has to deal with the return to her life of a man whose love she must deny herself.”
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