Lucy Dawson’s His Other Lover is making a big splash after its publication in March – if you haven’t already read it, get your hands on a copy NOW! Already it’s been Heat’s review of the week, receiving a whopping five stars and reaching No 2 in the chart, where it’s been causing a stir for three weeks.
His Other Lover is an explosive new breed of chick-lit – exhilarating, astonishing and totally compulsive, this is what happens when a girl takes charge of her own worst nightmare.
How far would you go to keep your Happy Ever After?
Mia thinks of herself as a grown up. Her younger sister, Clare, is once again in the death throes of an affair that was always doomed to failure. Mia now understands that relationships need work; that in an adult partnership, passion and spontaneity give way to something different but more lasting. With Pete she knows that her search for The One can stop.
Until, tripping over Pete’s phone one night, she reads a text message that sends her blood cold. Everything in it – its tone, the kisses at the end, Pete’s evasions about the sender ‘Liz’ – is wrong, and suddenly the blinkers are off. It’s time to get back in the game, and with everything to play for, Mia is about to discover a capacity for deceit she never knew she had. After all, when Happy Ever After is at stake, any weapon at your disposal is fair game – isn’t it?
‘Lucy Dawson’s debut novel puts every woman’s nightmare into words . . . You’ll identify with the character, regardless of the choices she ends up making. You’ll feel her distress, you’ll turn pages in anticipation . . . His Other Lover is dark, compelling and will leave you with an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach’ *****
Heat
‘Funny, dark and very surprising – a compulsive new breed of chick-lit’
Louise Candlish
‘If you like your chick lit with a bit of a twist, then His Other Lover by Lucy Dawson is for you . . . most definitely a cut above, [this] reaches dark places which other novels in the genre would steer well clear of, on the way to a thought-provoking ending’
Peterborough Evening Telegraph
‘A captivating debut’
www.chicklitclub.com
‘Unlike most chick-lit, this is dark and funny at the same time, and not just run-of-the-mill. Very enjoyable’
www.gatewaymonthly.com
‘I was really impressed with this book. As the story develops it takes a darker turn, as the author explores the issues of trust and deceit. How far does love justify doing something dishonest? How far would you go to save a relationship? And how do you even know if it’s worth saving? This book was a real page-turner from start to finish . . . a brilliant read’
Reader review, Amazon
See Lucy speaking about His Other Lover, and reading from it, on Bookzone. Just visit http://www.bookzone.tv