Hello, people! Author of a collection of bestsellers and Mad About You, Sinead Moriarty is on my blog today and she's sharing her Top 5 favourite books!
Jane Austen was considered ‘chick lit’ in her day and so I have to mention Pride and Prejudice. I think Lizzie Bennet is one of the all time great heroines. She’s so smart and strong and witty and yet flawed and very human. She makes mistakes, she makes bad judgements but she can own up to them. It’s also incredibly romantic – a truly epic love story that even after re-reading the book twenty times, still makes me glow.
Next would have to be Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding. That changed the way I felt about writing. I just thought Bridget was so endearing and so very much like you or someone you’d know. And it was laugh out loud funny too. Much funnier than any book I’d read previously.
After that I’d probably say Watermelon by Marian Keyes. She was the first Irish author to make me laugh out loud. It’s such a funny book and I found myself nodding along to it all the way through. Great characters.
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger. I loved this book because I love fashion and it gave you such a brilliant insight into that world. Some of the situations are jaw-dropping and yet you find yourself believing them. I’d love to know how much of it is really true and how much is fiction!
I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson. As a working mother I loved this book. It just hits the nail on the head. Kate Reddy is like any working mother – completely overwhelmed. But the thing I liked most about the book was its honesty. Pearson says it like it is. She describes the hard grind of trying to juggle work and motherhood. She really exposes the insecurities of working mothers, the feelings that they never quite get it right and are always trying to make up for lost time. She shows how difficult it can be to prioritize when you have deadlines approaching but desperately want to be there for your children too. And she also shows those moments when you think you finally have it all sorted and something will happen to mess it all up. I think it’s a very honest – and very funny – account of the challenges of the working mother.
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