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One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and<br />
job have gone. The last thing she wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village,<br />
and she certainly doesn’t intend to work for curmudgeonly eighty-year-old<br />
Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could<br />
ignore. In return, she secretly vows to help him fall in love with life again. Then<br />
there’s Remy, whose charm and charisma are proving hard to ignore. But Lou<br />
hasn’t recovered from the last time she fell for a charmer. She needs a distraction<br />
and luckily one’s about to turn up. Promise Me is Jill Mansell’s latest chick-lit read.<br />
Headline • Every day, The Housemaid (by Freida McFadden) cleans the Winchesters’<br />
beautiful house. She collects their daughter from school, and cooks a delicious<br />
meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in her tiny room<br />
on the top floor. She tries to ignore how Nina Winchester makes a mess just to<br />
watch her clean it up, how she tells strange lies about her own daughter, and<br />
how her husband seems more broken every day. It’s hard not to imagine what it<br />
would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.<br />
But she reassures herself that the Winchesters don’t know who she really is.<br />
They don’t know what she’s capable of. Little Brown<br />
Nobody sits us down and teaches us<br />
how to love. We’re often thrown into<br />
relationships with nothing but romantic<br />
movies and pop culture to help us<br />
muddle through. Until now. In 8 Rules<br />
of Love, instead of presenting love as<br />
an ethereal concept or a collection<br />
of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific,<br />
actionable steps to help you develop<br />
the skills to practice and nurture love.<br />
He shares insights on how to win or<br />
lose together, how to define love,<br />
and why you don’t break in a breakup.<br />
Inspired by Vedic wisdom and<br />
modern science, he tackles the entire<br />
relationship cycle, from first dates to<br />
moving in together to breaking up<br />
and starting over. And he shows us<br />
how to avoid falling for false promises<br />
and unfulfilling partners. Harper Collins<br />
Are you dating Boring Bert (he wears<br />
quilted anoraks and his mancave has<br />
a trainset from his boyhood). Or a<br />
Tradie Ted (he drives a bakkie, calls<br />
you his woman and slaps your arse<br />
as he walks past you). Are there red<br />
flags in your relationship ... he asks to<br />
borrow money, delays and evades,<br />
sulks, withdraws and stonewalls you.<br />
If there’s a resounding yes anywhere<br />
here, it’s probably time to pick up a<br />
copy of Caroline Hurry’s Flow - 21<br />
secrets to refresh your relationship.<br />
Full of hysterical descriptions<br />
of Drunken Duncans, Stingy Steves<br />
and Slobber Stans (his breath is beery,<br />
and feels damp), Caroline doesn’t shy<br />
away from nasty truths ... manipulation<br />
and gaslighting, blame shifting<br />
and abuse. She talks about dating<br />
duds (don’t overinvest, or stalk him on<br />
social media) and relationship flows.<br />
All very tongue-in-cheek ... which<br />
doesn’t mean she doesn’t get it spot<br />
on! It’s not, she firmly points out,<br />
another find-a-husband book (she did<br />
that in Handbook for the Huntress),<br />
but ‘more of an outstretched hand to<br />
those who slipped on the treacherous<br />
rocks of romance and need a little<br />
help getting up again’. Hygge Books<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary 20<strong>23</strong> Get It <strong>Lowveld</strong> 05<br />
Compiled by: KYM ARGO
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