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life's too short to frost a cupcake |
By Rosie Wilde
ISBN: 978-140-910208-3
It should have been a normal Monday, just like any other. But if it had been, Alice would not now be standing at the airport, thinking her boyfriend was about to propose, when all he had in mind was a spreadsheet for shared expenses...
Alice has a steady job at Carmichael Music, a reliable boyfriend, a nice flat and a cleaning habit she can't just kick. But everything changes one Monday morning. Her kindly boss isn't there, but sends a mysterious text advising her to watch her back. And a new boss has arrived from the American head office: the extremely scary Phoebe Carmichael...
Alice is sure she is about to be fired in a 'streamlining' exercise - instead she's offered a dream job in America. Her brief: to persuade the once massively successful, now reclusive, recovering alcoholic singer songwriter Wyatt Brown to record a new album.
WHAT WE THOUGHT
Alice is such a fun character, she has more than her fair share of issues – fear of flying, driving, horses, germs…and living with her financially pedantic boyfriend Stephen doesn’t help her to try new things.
When she arrives in a small country town in a foreign country, her life begins to change and we see her slowly evolve into a more confident young lady. She has setbacks and a jealous rivalry forms between her and the always perfect Heidi, but the town starts to feel like home.
Alice isn’t your typical heroine, and the story is like a mixture between Pride and Prejudice (novel by Jane Austin) and Men in Trees (television series starring Anne Heche), although slightly more dysfunctional.
The differences between her home of the UK and the USA where she is situated are at times quite hilarious, especially as on more than one occasion Alice is pushed into making up facts about everything British.
Life’s Too Short To Frost a Cupcake is our October chic lit read, and is available from all good bookstores.
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