The Girls Guide to Getting Hitched by Sophie Hart
Published: 17th July 2015
Publisher: Bookouture
Pages: 312
Available in Paperback and on Kindle
Blurb
Rule number one: Keep calm and marry on…
When new mum and events planner Julia Crawford is given the opportunity to plan three weddings, she jumps at the chance. What could possibly go wrong? …
Forget bridezilla, Aimee’s future mother-in-law is the stuff of nightmares – hell bent on taking over the wedding entirely. Worse still, her fiancé, Jon, seems oblivious. Aimee’s starting to wonder if she and her groom-to-be are right for each other after all…
Body shy Debbie is on a mission. She’s determined to shed a lot of pounds before the big day. As the wedding inches closer, will the new Debbie lose sight of what’s really important?
Gill loves Mike and their blended family of five kids to bits, but with a house full of teenage hormones and her eldest, Kelly, struggling with so much change, Gill is feeling the pressure...
As the women bond over cake and a cuppa, can they each resolve their wedding woes before the big day?
Review
When new mum and events planner Julia Crawford is given the opportunity to plan three weddings, she jumps at the chance. What could possibly go wrong? …
Forget bridezilla, Aimee’s future mother-in-law is the stuff of nightmares – hell bent on taking over the wedding entirely. Worse still, her fiancé, Jon, seems oblivious. Aimee’s starting to wonder if she and her groom-to-be are right for each other after all…
Body shy Debbie is on a mission. She’s determined to shed a lot of pounds before the big day. As the wedding inches closer, will the new Debbie lose sight of what’s really important?
Gill loves Mike and their blended family of five kids to bits, but with a house full of teenage hormones and her eldest, Kelly, struggling with so much change, Gill is feeling the pressure...
As the women bond over cake and a cuppa, can they each resolve their wedding woes before the big day?
Review
Having read and loved Sophie’s previous novel The Girls
Guide to Falling in Love I was really excited to hear about her new novel The
Girls Guide to Getting Hitched, what made this even better for me was the release
date was a week before my own wedding so I was in wedding heaven reading this.
The Girls Guide to Getting Hitched follows the story of
Julia Crawford an event’s organiser as she helps three very different brides to
plan their big day, Aimee, Debbie and Gill. For those of you who have read
Sophie’s previous book you will instantly recognise Julia Crawford and her husband
Nick. I personally love it when authors bring back characters from previous
novels as I love to see how they’ve changed, quite a bit for Julia and Nick.
Don’t worry if you haven’t read her previous book (although you really should!)
this book will make perfect sense on its own, which I liked from a new readers perspective.
Julia is a new mum who has just begun to think about going
back to work when she lands a huge wedding planning contract with the
prestigious Valerie for her son Jon’s wedding to the very sweet Aimee. With
such a huge budget Julia just can’t say no and reluctantly enrols her son Jack
into nursery for a few hours. Here she meets two more brides-to-be, Debbie and
Gill and finds herself with a full on work schedule.
All three brides are struggling with the own pre-wedding
issues. Sweet natured Aimee is being controlled completely by fiancé Jon and
his overbearing mother Valerie. As Aimee struggles with letting go of her dream
wedding she begins to feel out of control and eventually it dawns on her
exactly what she needs to do.
Debbie is dreaming of walking down the aisle in the perfect
size 10 dress (don’t we all!), with a huge amount of willpower and
determination she begins to lose the pounds and becomes more confident, but
will this new confidence land her in trouble?
Gill is about to walk down the aisle for the second time
with her new partner Mike and their five children from previous marriages, but
Gill is struggling to keep everyone happy and plan her perfect day. It’s made
even harder when her daughter Kelly begins to feel pushed out by her mother,
will this family find their happy ever after?
I really loved all the characters in this book, except Jon
and Valerie whom I hope grow old and miserable together. I think Debbie was my
favourite as I can identify with an obsession with losing weight, sadly I don’t
possess that woman’s determination so walked down the aisle in a slightly
bigger dress! I also loved the references to characters in the previous book as
it was good to check in and see how they were,
I adored this book just as much as I have Sophie’s previous
work, it’s the perfect mix of heartfelt emotion, humour and the trials of
everyday life. The words just flowed so well making this an absolute joy to
read, the only downside to it was I finished it far too quickly!
I’d recommend this book to anyone who wants a light-hearted
summer reads, it’s just brilliant and Sophie please, please write another book
soon!
I’d like to thank Bookouture and Netgalley for a copy of
this to review and give this book 5/5.
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