Kat meets building site project manager Alex. When the developers win the battle and move into town, everyone’s life is turned upside down. battling the developers of a controversial housing estate and working out why boyfriend Rob is increasingly distant.
What happened to her dream job? What happened with Nathan? Summer is wondering where her life is going too. Kat can’t help wishing there was more to life than this. But I wouldn’t have gotten involved in such a big project if I hadn’t been behind it all the way and it’s now a joy to see it in print.How Do You Spell Love? by Zanna Mackenzie Paperback, 282 Pages, Published 2013 by Crooked Cat Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-90, ISBN: 1-90 "Make a wish. I have to admit now that I am slightly biased because I was involved in editing this work. The conversations they have are in fact so realistic, it’s like you’re in the next room listening in. But the main reason that it’s a cut above most chick-lit books (at least for me) is that rather than only being about romance, there’s also a very real sense of the friendship between the two main characters as they help each other through their problems. The magic stuff adds an extra flavour too – it’s really quite interesting, learning about the mystical properties of crystals, lunar calendar traditions, etc, and it’s written with a lot of knowledge and detail. The set-up is simple, the people likeable and we find ourselves returning to the same scenes many times – Summer’s flat, Kat’s house, the charity shop, the allotments and the building site.
How Do You Spell Love? by Zanna Mackenzie, however, has but a light sprinkling of humour, so, you may ask, why did this book appeal to me? Well, firstly I’d draw attention to the fact that the novel has a real cosiness about it. The strength of these authors is their light humour, and unlike some other chick-lit books, they don’t try to be knowledgeable about love and heavy on the morals. Books by Jenny Colgan and Sophie Kinsella are particular favourites. Girl meets boy, girl doesn’t like boy because boy is bad, actually he’s not bad after all, girl is falling for boy, girl pursues boy and girl gets boy. It’s nice to have a break from all that heavy and often depressing literary stuff – with a book in this genre you know what you’re getting. I pick up the odd chick-lit book now and then.
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