Please recommend some chick lit for summer reading

[notsureatall]

That's it really...I need something nice and fluffy to take on hols with me....nothing taxing! And any recommendations for DH? Thanks!

I am reading Allison Pearson's new one

I Think I Love You

Sophie Kinsella?

I thought Sophie's Bakery etc was jolly d.

Also anything by Adriana Trigliani - I particularly liked Lucia, Lucia.

And I just read The Fidelity Files by Jessica Brody - enjoyed it but felt I had to hide it from dh, maybe not ideal on holiday!

I've just rediscovered To Kill a Mockingbird - deffo not taxing, but a bit stronger than chicklit? Made me cry all over again.

What sort of stuff does your dh like?

God I hate Sophie Kinsella, sorry BuzzingNoise! I just want to slap her heroine hard.

I do like Christina Jones though, if you don't mind a bit of aery faery stuff.

I'm also a big fan of Marian Keyes but some of her books deal with big heavy stuff wrapped up in glitzy bubble wrap - so not exactly light reading.

Not chicklit as such but Alexander McCall Smith is easy reading and very relaxing.

Isabel Wolff is all right too. And Jane Green is ok.

Sorry, missed that you wanted it for your DH as well! What does he like?
He might go for the Alexander McCall Smith stuff too - or I could heartily recommend A White Merc With Fins - depends what he's into really.

I am currently reading "I'll be there for you" by Louise Candlish who is an author I had never heard of but I am LOVING it.

Also love Debbie Macomber and the Blossom Street series of books.

Tim Lott is usually a safe bet for the boys

white city blue

the seymour tapes

huuricane

Anything by Fiona Walker or Jill Mansell

Ooh, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - a winner with both sexes round 'ere, and there are three books, though all three on the same holiday might be a bit much.

PG Wodehouse? My fave is The Code of the Woosters.

Retro stuff? How about some Nevil Shute? Pied Piper is joy, also Trustee from the Toolroom?

I do like Jane Green.

Try Spellbound or The Other Woman.

Catherine Alliott? I've enjoyed all of hers.

Also like Jane Green, Marian Keyes (not her latest though - took way too long to get going) and Freya North.

Get her into Georgette Heyer, maryz! lots of humour, romance, no sex at all (well, not explicit anyway) and very entertaining.

I think, from what I remember, that Christina Jones is pretty non-graphic as well. If you have Marian Keyes' This Charming Man, you might want to keep her away from that for a while - it's the most heavy duty of them all, I think, despite its ostensible fluffiness. But she should definitely read it before she has boyfriends!

I find sex scenes unutterably boring so tend to turn the pages until I'm past them, which means I mostly can't remember which books have them in unless they've had a serious impact (This Charming Man for one).

I loved the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society too - a great book. Not as "quirky" as its title suggests, either - I remember spouting about it on a thread where people hadn't read it but wouldn't purely on the grounds of its "quirky" title.

maryz Don't think there's much in the way of sex in Catherine Alliott, also Jill Mansell is always light & fluffy with no sex.

Freya North always has at least one fairly graphic scene.

Oh, and for the OP, I forgot to mention Adele Parks, but not her last one as I found it pretty weak - Love Lies I think it was called)

I loved the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, can highly recommend it.

Not chicklit, and a bit more than quirky is The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake about an 8yo girl who discovers that she can "taste" her mother's feelings when she eats the food that her mother prepares. It is beautifully written.

I am just filling my Kindle for our holidays, so if anyone else has a good suggestion, I would be glad of it. Have downloaded Allison Pearson book and one of Georgette Heyer's that I have not read.

Maryz, sophie kinsella doesn't do sex scenes. I liked Shopaholic and Sister best of all. I know what you mean about wanting to protect her a bit - Dragon Tattoo was deffo a bit much. What about Lynne Reid Banks? - at least the L Shaped Room shows some of the consequences! also I bet she'd love Dorothy Sayers - Have His Carcase and Nine Tailors perhaps?

Mary Stewart is good, and no sex scenes.

Ok Not strictly chick lit but I have just read 'The hills are stuffed with Swedish girls' If you know a bit about walking this book is hilarious!

www.amazon.co.uk/Hills-are-Stuffed-Swedish-Girls/dp/0956242804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=127929 7946&sr=1-1#noop

Anything by Lani Diane Rich is AWESOME, but in particular I loved 'Little Ray of Sunshine'.

Are you from the North West notsureatall?

A book that your DH may like, indeed you may enjoy it as well is 'Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie.

Not sure what to recommend, but steer clear of Freya North re sex scenes. On the other hand, it could be worse. At that age, I was reading Jackie Collins.