Birthday present for sister needed - she asks for a good chic/flick sort of novel.

[Pan]

Am not au fait with this genre....can anyone make a recommendation please?

tia.

[bigkidsdidit]

Marion Keyes?

[Ponders]

I was going to say Marion Keyes too! Lovely characters, interesting plots & loads of laughs

[Ponders]

(but check that she hasn't already read them all)

[Pan]

not Marian Keyes?....just goggled her latest "this Charming Man" - a bit serious for chic/lit maybe?

Ponders - my sis would have been explicit in her orderings to me!

[bigkidsdidit]

Yes she might well have some. If she hasn't read any yet, Sushi for beginners is my favourite

[Ponders]

yes, this Charming Man is a more serious plot than most of hers, but still has the usual fab characters & hilarious lines

[Ponders]

\link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rachels-Holiday-Marian-Keyes/dp/0140271791/ref=pd_cp_b_3\Rachel's?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 Holiday} has overwhelmingly good reviews on amazon

[kingofthejungle]

books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Bad-Girls/Rebecca-Chance/9781847393968

is nice and saucy... plenty of bits

[Pan]

I'd like to add that my sister has a mind like a sewer. She invents her own double entendres, and sniggers at them, even before the utterer has innocently finished speaking.

Not needed for this request obv. Just an opportunity to be a bit libelous about her as an indulgence.

[Ponders]

\link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Side-Story-Marian-Keyes/dp/0140295992/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3\the?tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 Other Side of the Story} popular too

(I have read both these but would happily read them again )

[oreocrumbs]

I like Fiona Walkers books - Similar to Keyes (same characters turn up in various books) More horsey set - acyually think I might go nd dig one out for a re-read!

[GlaikitFizzog]

Ceila Ahern is a good bet too. Still Irish, PS I love you is her best known one, but any of hers are a good read. They are like grown up fairytales!

My fav is the one totally written like letters/emails/texts....cant remember what its called.

[Pan]

king - sounds like it's just up my sisters alley. < at which she would have sniggered at " like it's just up.." - you get the picture?>

[SamsGoldilocks]

Harriet Evans - I think her latest one Love Always is great
www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Always-Harriet-Evans/dp/0007350228/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1314651547&sr=8-3&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[Ponders]

will she have read \link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Day-David-Nicholls/dp/0340896981/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314651533&sr=1-1%5COne&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 Day?}

by a bloke but still chick lit & very current (film just out, dodgy casting though)

[bigkidsdidit]

Jilly cooper then!

[GlaikitFizzog]

Where rainbows end!! Thats it!

And before someone corrects me I know its Cecelia Ahern. :o

[GlaikitFizzog]

Or Freya North? Cat, Pip and Fen are a series along with Home Truths. Chloe is my fav, some quite bits too!!

[YellowWallpaper]

I like chick lit, although I dont like the term chick lit but the best I have ever read is Twenties Girl by Sophia Kinsella, lovely story

[Pan]

Right - thanks v. much all. I will look these up, and get two books and some smellies. [sister's snigger emocion]

[Sidge]

Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series - laugh out loud funny with lots of raunch and great plots.

[Jellykat]

I'd recommend, and i hate to admit this... a surprisingly good book by Sharon Osborne (supposedly), called 'Revenge', and it has a sexy black glittery cover .

[Pan]

I am afraid a sexy black glittery cover would turn her head.

But she is as sharp as a whip. Really curious mix.

[Jellykat]

I'm sharp as a whip too