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'That's rude,' said Lisa promptly. 'You shouldn't ask a lady that.'

 

'I think she's about twenty-five,' persisted Dale.

 

The Bad Mother's Handbook. Kate Long

Haven't read it. It just happens to be on the top of my TBR which is currently next to the computer.

[Bookmarks!]

I use the first piece of paper I can find to hand be it a receipt or a price tag or old envelope. Sometimes when I clear out my purse or handbag and I come across old cinema or train tickets I tuck them into books I know I will read in the future ready to use as bookmarks! It's always a nice surprise to come across a ticket of a favourite film I enjoyed tucked in a book I had forgotten about.

[Historical Fiction]

I'd like to recommend Sharon Penman. She has written a series of superb novels around the medieval period of the 12th and 13th centuries. She brings to life the real historical characters like Eleanor of Aquitaine, Simon De Montford and Llewellyn the Great and their conflicts and relationships with the English Kings from the period. The books read so easily like any other novels but are based on real events and characters from the time. As a taster I recommend her shorter novel The Queens Man but the real quality that she has written are books like The Sunne in Splendour, Here Be Dragons and When Christ and His Saints Slept.

[How did you find the forum?]

Clicked on a link on someone's signature on the RISI website - can't remember whose - sorry!