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Oh … bliss. A new Taylor Jenkins Reid. In Forever, Interrupted<\/strong> we meet Elsie Porter, an average twentysomething who, one rainy New Year\u2019s Day, heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn\u2019t expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. Within months, they\u2019ve eloped. Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment, but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room, where she must face the mother-in-law she has never met, and who doesn\u2019t even know Elsie exists. Simon Schuster<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Journey\u2019s End … wines with a story on every label<\/p>\n
We love a wine with a story, and Journey\u2019s End, the boutique estate on the mountain slopes above Sir Lowry\u2019s Pass Village in the Helderberg basin, have released their rebranded new-vintage Tales Series range of wines … new classic labels but still with the tales behind the wine. This February we\u2019ll be trying Journey\u2019s End Weather Station Sauvignon Blanc 2022. The Tale …. This wine is named after the famed SB11 Weerstasie Kloon (Weather Station clone) which is one of the core components used in this wine. First propagated in Stellenbosch in the 1920s, it made a huge resurgence in the late 1970s. The clone is nicknamed \u2018The Weather Station\u2019 as the original plantings were made beside an old weather station, which proved invaluable in enabling the farms to spot upcoming changes in the weather and thus pick their fruit at its optimum condition. The vegan-friendly wine is a refreshing aperitif but also enjoyable with fresh oysters, asparagus, smoked salmon, mussels, tempura prawns or seared tuna. You\u2019ll find it for between R100 and R120 from shop.journeysend.co.za<\/p>\n
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One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and job have gone. The last thing she wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village, and she certainly doesn\u2019t intend to work for curmudgeonly eighty-year-old Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could ignore. In return, she secretly vows to help him fall in love with life again. Then there\u2019s Remy, whose charm and charisma are proving hard to ignore. But Lou hasn\u2019t recovered from the last time she fell for a charmer. She needs a distraction and luckily one\u2019s about to turn up. Promise Me<\/strong> is Jill Mansell\u2019s latest chick-lit read. Headline<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Are you dating Boring Bert (he wears quilted anoraks and his mancave has a trainset from his boyhood). Or a Tradie Ted (he drives a bakkie, calls you his woman and slaps your arse as he walks past you). Are there red flags in your relationship … he asks to borrow money, delays and evades, sulks, withdraws and stonewalls you. If there\u2019s a resounding yes anywhere here, it\u2019s probably time to pick up a copy of Caroline Hurry\u2019s Flow – 21 secrets to refresh your relationship<\/strong>. Full of hysterical descriptions of Drunken Duncans, Stingy Steves and Slobber Stans (his breath is beery, and feels damp), Caroline doesn\u2019t shy away from nasty truths … manipulation and gaslighting, blame shifting and abuse. She talks about dating duds (don\u2019t overinvest, or stalk him on social media) and relationship flows. All very tongue-in-cheek … which doesn\u2019t mean she doesn\u2019t get it spot on! It\u2019s not, she firmly points out, another find-a-husband book (she did that in Handbook for the Huntress), but \u2018more of an outstretched hand to those who slipped on the treacherous rocks of romance and need a little help getting up again\u2019. Hygge Books<\/p>\n Nobody sits us down and teaches us how to love. We\u2019re often thrown into relationships with nothing but romantic movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until now. In 8 Rules of Love<\/strong>, instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love. He shares insights on how to win or lose together, how to define love, and why you don\u2019t break in a break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners. Harper Collins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First book club of the year … wine with a story, romance, thrillers, and, it being Valentine\u2019s month … how to recognise a cad! Oh … bliss. A new Taylor Jenkins Reid. In Forever, Interrupted we meet Elsie Porter, an average twentysomething who, one rainy New Year\u2019s Day, heads out to pick up a pizza […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":28788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8082,8081,8083,6288,8084,8080,3139,2960,8079,8078],"class_list":{"0":"post-28779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews","8":"tag-caroline-hurry","9":"tag-freida-mcfadden","10":"tag-harper-collins","11":"tag-headline","12":"tag-hygge-books","13":"tag-jill-mansell","15":"tag-little-brown","16":"tag-simon-schuster","17":"tag-taylor-jenkins-reid"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/01\/Housemaid-002-267x400.jpg\")
Every day, The Housemaid<\/strong> (by Freida McFadden) cleans the Winchesters\u2019 beautiful house. She collects their daughter from school, and cooks a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in her tiny room on the top floor. She tries to ignore how Nina Winchester makes a mess just to watch her clean it up, how she tells strange lies about her own daughter, and how her husband seems more broken every day. It\u2019s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina\u2019s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. But she reassures herself that the Winchesters don\u2019t know who she really is. They don\u2019t know what she\u2019s capable of. Little Brown<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/01\/62713155._UY2281_SS2281_-400x400.jpg\")
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