Apr 2021 Ballito Umhl

Book club
A little heartbreak, happy endings and a great celebratory win!
Rocking
back-to-back
double gold
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including one
in the Rosé Rocks
competition, FAT
bastard ROSÉ 2020
is a gorgeous salmon pink
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berries. Delicious and affordable
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for these last days of Summer.
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Romance. Friendship. Joy. And the possibility of happy endings. What more do you want in
a feel-good read? In the latest Katie Fforde (love her) release, Lizzie’s mother is keen for her
to have A Wedding in the Country, to a suitable chap chosen, obviously, by mum. And to
learn how to be a ‘good wife’, she’s sent off to cookery school in London. It’s 1963 … and
London is swinging! Lizzie cuts her hair, buys a mini dress and moves in with two great
friends. All of her mum’s plans are forgotten. She’s going to have fun … even if that entails
falling in love with someone who appears to be engaged to someone else. The perfect
read for a lazy Easter weekend. • Dodging doctor’s orders, 17-year-old Lenni, who’s living
in the terminal ward, joins an art class where she bumps into fellow hospital patient
Margot, a rebel-hearted 83-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they
realise that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years. To celebrate
their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories … of growing old and staying
young, of giving joy and receiving kindness, of losing love and finding the person who
is everything. Fiercely alive, disarmingly funny and brimming with tenderness, The One
Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin unwraps the extraordinary
gift of life, even when it is about to be taken away, and revels in our infinite capacity for
friendship and love when we need them most. Keep the tissues at your side. • Was there
a single book club in the late 1990s which didn’t have The Notebook on the must-read
list? Impossible. And now, 25 years after its first release, Nicholas Sparks’ love story to
end all love stories is being released. It’s the story of Noah Calhoun, who returns from
war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, sets his mind and his body to
restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty. But he’s haunted by memories of
the beautiful Allie, who he’d met years before … a girl who stole his heart at the funfair,
whose parents didn’t approve, a girl he wrote to every day for a year. When she turns up
on his doorstep, he has a chance to win her back. Small problem … she’s engaged to
someone else. You’ve seen the movie … you may have read the book … but read it (and
weep) again anyway. It’s not called a classic heartbreaker for nothing. And to celebrate
the 25th anniversary edition, we’ve got a special giveaway … three people can win a
copy of The Notebook plus a case of Fat bastard Rosé … your next book club
get-together’s going to be very special indeed. To enter, visit Get It National Magazines
on Facebook and enter on The Notebook’s post.
April 2021 Get It • Ballito Umhlanga 05