Feb 23 - Ballito Umhl

One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and
job have gone. The last thing she wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village,
and she certainly doesn’t intend to work for curmudgeonly eighty-year-old
Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could
ignore. In return, she secretly vows to help him fall in love with life again. Then
there’s Remy, whose charm and charisma are proving hard to ignore. But Lou
hasn’t recovered from the last time she fell for a charmer. She needs a distraction
and luckily one’s about to turn up. Promise Me is Jill Mansell’s latest chick-lit read.
Headline • Every day, The Housemaid (by Freida McFadden) cleans the Winchesters’
beautiful house. She collects their daughter from school, and cooks a delicious
meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in her tiny room
on the top floor. She tries to ignore how Nina Winchester makes a mess just to
watch her clean it up, how she tells strange lies about her own daughter, and
how her husband seems more broken every day. It’s hard not to imagine what it
would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.
But she reassures herself that the Winchesters don’t know who she really is.
They don’t know what she’s capable of. Little Brown
Nobody sits us down and teaches us
how to love. We’re often thrown into
relationships with nothing but romantic
movies and pop culture to help us
muddle through. Until now. In 8 Rules
of Love, instead of presenting love as
an ethereal concept or a collection
of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific,
actionable steps to help you develop
the skills to practice and nurture love.
He shares insights on how to win or
lose together, how to define love,
and why you don’t break in a breakup.
Inspired by Vedic wisdom and
modern science, he tackles the entire
relationship cycle, from first dates to
moving in together to breaking up
and starting over. And he shows us
how to avoid falling for false promises
and unfulfilling partners. Harper Collins
Are you dating Boring Bert (he wears
quilted anoraks and his mancave has
a trainset from his boyhood). Or a
Tradie Ted (he drives a bakkie, calls
you his woman and slaps your arse
as he walks past you). Are there red
flags in your relationship ... he asks to
borrow money, delays and evades,
sulks, withdraws and stonewalls you.
If there’s a resounding yes anywhere
here, it’s probably time to pick up a
copy of Caroline Hurry’s Flow - 21
secrets to refresh your relationship.
Full of hysterical descriptions
of Drunken Duncans, Stingy Steves
and Slobber Stans (his breath is beery,
and feels damp), Caroline doesn’t shy
away from nasty truths ... manipulation
and gaslighting, blame shifting
and abuse. She talks about dating
duds (don’t overinvest, or stalk him on
social media) and relationship flows.
All very tongue-in-cheek ... which
doesn’t mean she doesn’t get it spot
on! It’s not, she firmly points out,
another find-a-husband book (she did
that in Handbook for the Huntress),
but ‘more of an outstretched hand to
those who slipped on the treacherous
rocks of romance and need a little
help getting up again’. Hygge Books
Compiled by: KYM ARGO
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