![]() She is married to Irish actor Chris O’Dowd ( The IT Crowd, Bridesmaids). I seriously recommend picking it up: it even has a sequel, and two more in the series to come, apparently.ĭawn O’Porter is a presenter on many documentaries covering topics like geishas, polygamy and the film Dirty Dancing. I haven’t read a novel like this in a while. It made me laugh and cry all at the same time, and then I just came back for more and laughed and cried again. It’s a story that involves many different plotlines, and you want to scream at some of the characters, which is always good. Loneliness, frustration and the longing for escape from their dysfunctional families joins them together in a bond that cannot be broken: the bond of female friendship. Thoughtful, introspective Flo couldn’t be more different from extroverted, sexually curious Renee. ![]() Fifteen-year-old schoolgirls Renee Sargent and Flo Parrot are not meant to be friends. Dawn O’Porter’s brilliant, true-to-life take on teenage friendship and relationships is mesmerising for, according to Caroline Flack, ‘anyone who has ever been a teenage girl’. ![]() I found it a few days ago, and read it in a day. ![]() Photo credit: Hot Key Booksįor a number of years, Paper Aeroplanes has been stored at the back of my mind, and I have been hunting for it since. The cover for Dawn O’Porter’s Paper Aeroplanes, designed by Jet Purdie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact I’m not a historical TV programme watcher either (although I did make an exception for Bridgerton, obvs!)): Here’s the blurb (which actually probably wouldn’t have prompted me to request it, as I’m not a historical novel fan. ‘Immersive, thrilling and packed with wonderful characters…I absolutely loved every page of this incredible book’ Jill Mansell, bestselling author of Maybe This Time The author Jill Mansell was asking on Twitter how she could request it on Net Galley as she was desperate to read it – so I hopped on to check it was a normal request and did that – a few weeks later it popped into my Net Galley account! Thankfully it would appear Jill also managed to get a copy – as her comments about it are mentioned on Amazon I came about this book for a strange reason. ![]() ![]() ![]() Born on a small farm in Wolcott, Conn., he came from a less distinguished family than his wife. Bronson Alcott was a dreamer, a reformer, a philosopher and a hopelessly improvident father. Louisa May Alcott had a reason, if only subconscious, for writing her father out of the story. ![]() In many other ways, though, the book stayed true to the Alcott family story. Emerson, her mother’s fourth cousin, helped support them financially. Growing up, Louisa knew Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne. And unlike the March family, they moved in the leading intellectual circles of the day. The Alcott family had less stability than the Marches, though. Alcott modeled Marmee on her mother, Abigail May Alcott, and the absent Father on her own father, Bronson Alcott. ![]() Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy were in real life Anna, Louy, Lizzy and May. And it was true, for she based the characters on her own family. ![]() Louisa May Alcott attributed the book’s success to its simplicity and truth. A century and a half after Little Women first reached the bookstore shelves, the story of four sisters and their mother still has ardent fans. ![]() |