can anyone reccomend a good chick lit book please?

[lizandlulu]

or something like chick lit. i am going on holiday soon and want a good book for the beach. i will be child free so want to make the most of my free time
i loved the shopaholic and baby books, ps i love you, that sort of thing.
any reccomendations please?

zuleika and the barbarian - - if you dare

the secret life of a slummy mummy is a good read ( think that is the title)

Freya North wrote some good books, all with ladies names as titles. Cat was one.

Also I like Jodi Picoult, esp My sisters keeper.... Not sure this is chick Lit tho??

Loved the shopaholic books as well, made me laugh out loud

erm.......diary of a demented housewife

marshmallows for breakfast

my best friends girl

(will be back with more)

Jennifer Crusie is great, especially Welcome to Temptation, Manhunting and Fast Women. If you want a big thick book then Nora Roberts can be good (although some of hers are a bit fey), Montana Sky is quite a chick lit one of hers.

The Book People are doing 12 Little Black Dress books for £9.99 if you like them.

i really enjoyed "i don't know how she does it" by allison pearson.

laugh out loud funny, bit sad, dead easy to read and really easy to get into. in fact, have read it about 4 times now!

Sally by Freya North, Bookends and Babyville by Jane Green, Mike Gayle books are lovely (and chick-lit though written by a man), any Maran Keyes.

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Chequers, we clearly have the same good taste!

Anything by Marion Keyes, Jill Mansell, Freya North, Christina Jones, Katie Fforde or Lisa Jewell. They're all easy to read, girl-meets-boy-obstacle-happy-ending type books, require no brainpower to follow the plots so are perfect for holiday!

Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella is good if you haven't read it already.

Adele Parks, Chris Manby, Jane Green and Jane Moore all great holiday reading. Have read all of the shopaholic and undomestic godess books. Shopaholic is coming out at the cinema this year and Isla Fisher plays our heroine Becky Bloomwood. There is also a new Kinsella book - 'remember me' just released on hardback only. Love chick lit

Cecelia Ahern. Ps I love you, any of hers are great but that was especially.

i have read the undomestic goddess and slummy mummy books, they were excellent and just the kind of thing i am looking for.

i cant get into jodi picoult books at all. i have tried, but ive up after the first few pages. im not sure which one it was, but it put me of the rest of them and have never tried to read anything else by her.

i have has the little black book books before and was surprised at how good it was, but are they all really short? i am a fast reader and one of those would only last about a day if i was at the beach, so would have to take about 3!!i have read a couple of jane green books too. anything to do with babies, managing, struggling and i am there

Read a book recently called Amy's Honeymoon which I really enjoyed, then another by same author called If I Were You, Julia Llewellyn (sorry took a few seconds to remember name, hope I spelled right)
Also really rate Maeve Binchy, she has an old fashioned vibe but her books are ace. Try Tara Road or the Glass Lake, big and fat too

bran- how much do the book people charge for delivery? do you know. i cant find out unless i sign up with them. dont really want to do that unless i buy something. also have you bought from them befoer, have you had any problems?

A good chick lit book? The word Oxymoron springs to mind...

I normally cannot get past the first page of a chick lit book. This is the only one that is bearable and I managed to get to the end - in a few weeks.

And God Created Aupair. It is not about an aupair at all. Just a funny account of a few mothers getting through their different domestic situations.

sometimes you need a bit of froth

Agree. But not from chick lit.

what would you suggest? im am not meaning that funny, but am trying to find a really good book and am open to suggestions about anything.
i usually read non fiction books, torey hayden, childhood memoirs and anything to do with gangsters when i am at home.
i find torey hayden brilliant. i have read all her books and found them all to be as good as the last.

I am reading the Olivia Joules book by Helen Fielding at the moment, it is OK.

Witty and funny is Virginia Ironside's No I don't want to Join a Bookclub. Sort of OAP chicklit, but v enjoyable.

You don't need chick lit - you need Jane Austen. Honest, give sense and sensibility or emma a go, you'll love em, every chick lit book ever written is a direct rip off of the great Ms Austen and her fabulous books.

Or try Nancy Mitford (don't worry, she wasn't the one married to a fascist)

Fiona Walker always a winner with me, have loved most of her books....

Lots of love and tongue in cheek probably my faves!!

Best book ever = the Ivy Chronicles (can'trememebr who by - amazon will know)