Title : New York Valentine
Author : Carmen Reid
Publisher : Corgi edition
Num. of Pages : 412
Personal shopper Annie Valentine has a dream job in the heart of fabulous Manhattan.
Daughter Lana is lost in the heat of first love, but has she fallen for a heart-breaker?
In London, husband Ed faces a scandal at work and knows, in his heart, he needs Annie back.
What's a girl to do when her true love is in London but her new love is New York?
My thoughts ;
Annie Valentine is a supermum who works as a TV presenter in her own show, "How Not To Shop", is basically a very family-oriented kind of woman. She has 4 children, two with her ex-husband, whom she had lost in a car accident (I don't really remember), Roddy Valentine, and the other two with her new husband, Ed Leon. She always puts her family first in every situation in her life, but got stuck in the middle for her young and grown-up daughter, Lana. Ever since she's done with schools, she gets distracted and doesn't really know what to do next. She has a very low self-esteem and all she does is sit in her room, lay on the bed, all day errday. Annie, who is very concerned about her daughter, wants Lana to work with her as her assistant in her show. She thought it might help Lana to gain her self confidence back. Somehow, the show was suddenly being de-commisssioned by Channel Four, the channel on which her show was being screened. Annie has lost her job in a blink and turned herself into a depressed domestic housewife. She tried to phone her TV manager, her agent, just to get her job back, but to no avail.
Just before her show got de-commissioned and withdrawn from the channel, she received a phone call from a good friend of hers, Svetlana Wisneski. She had asked Annie to help her daughter with her fashion line and dress business in New York. Annie turned down her request because she loves her job so much, and it's been her dreams to be on TV. After the show was being cancelled, she thought it would be a good idea to go over to New York, to help Elena, Svetlana's daughter with her dress business, Perfect Dress. And she thought it might be great if she could bring Lana with her, so that she can explore the other side of the Atlantic and see the world. Once she got Ed's permission, without second thoughts, she flew to New York with Lana. She fell in love with NYC instantly as she touched down in JFK. She could actually see herself moving into the city and be one of the New Yorkers. But her aim in NYC is to help Elena with her business. They both stayed in NYC for four weeks to settle some problems with the dresses. On the third week in NYC, something had happened with Ed in London. Ed had been suspended from the school he was teaching in that urged Annie to go back home and be with her husband. She left Lana with Elena to settle some things before she could go back to London.
In London, she's always been missing NYC. She dreams of going back there and settle down with her family. She has a new love for New York apart from her true love, in London.
I give it a 3.5 star.
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