

Life Skills
Author: Katie Fforde
Narrator: Davina Porter
Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/06/2008
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy
Author: Katie Fforde
Narrator: Davina Porter
Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/06/2008
Categories: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy
Katie Fforde is the author of romance novels are set in modern-day England. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England with her husband, some of her three children,and many pets. Recently her old hobbies of ironing and housework have given way to singing, Flamenco dancing, and husky racing. She claims this keeps her fit.
This is my third Katie Fforde and I found it really disappointing. I got it so that I'd have something quick and light to read on the train to Chicago and I found I had a hard time getting through it. The premise was appealing and the book began promisingly enough: newly single thirty-something take......more
I tend to like a crabby heroine, but it turns out context is everything. In this case the h is so snippy and exhausting and childish for no good reason that I could never warm to her.......more
Posh tosh that sinks like a stone… This was the first of Katie Fforde’s books I have read. Having been recommended her books by several people, as well as having read some rave reviews by other Goodreads members I was looking forward to discovering and enjoying her books. I thought reading about the......more
Julia realises she is playing life so safe that she has practically sleep-walked into marrying a man she doesn't love and actually doesn't really like very much. When she loses out to a promotion she richly deserves to a helpless man, she receives no support from her boyfriend Oscar who agrees with......more
I love Katie Fforde's books. Yes, they are chick lit. They are fun, they make you laugh, they end up with a happy ending, but that is in spite of the characters, not because of them. Ms. Fforde manages to make her women funny but not silly, smart in most ways, but quite obtuse and obstinate in other......more