I loved this book. Picked it up on holiday and read it straight through. I particularly enjoyed the friendship between the two women and I loved the many minor characters too who were very well written.
It's set in a part of London I don't know so I enjoyed that too and while I'd love to go guerrilla gardening as well, I know I never will.
As it says on the cover, Guerrillas in our Midst definitely has more substance than the usual chick lit fare - though I do like chick lit.
This is perfect holiday reading but also great to read at the hairdressers, on the bus or train to work. It's a lovely book and I highly recommend it.
As someone who made the opposite journey to Stephen (kind of) when I saw this in a Potteries bookshop I just had to buy it. I loved it. Read it in a few days.
It not only avoids all the obvious clichés a memoir such as this could descend into, it's a book about Stoke that never mentions oatcakes once. And I loved all the political observations; Stephen is an incredibly astute writer and like many who migrate to London, he shows us the city in a way those of us born and bred there never quite see it.
He also reminds us that not everyone who lived through the truly ghastly Thatcherite 80s was a yuppie on their way up. He shows us the 80s how it really was for many… Read more
I've read and enjoyed all Isabel Wolff's books so I always look forward to her next one. But as a lover of quizzes, this book was particularly appealing to me and I eagerly snapped it up.
Heroine Laura Quick is a quiz setter whose skill and knowledge see her shoot to fame in a new television quiz show. But Laura has a secret, or two, and she's terrified that if the show is a success, her past will come tumbling out in the tabloids. Despite her newly-acquired but reluctant TV fame, Laura is a shy person more at home with facts than feelings so she finds recognition hard to face. In a world full of eight-year-old wannabes who desire nothing more than fame for its own sake, Laura makes a… Read more
