Title: FOURTEEN DAYS LATER
Series: Helen Grey #1
Author: Sibel Hodge
Publish Date:
Publisher: Sibel Hodge
Category: Romance, Women's Fiction
Editing
/ Grammar: A – near perfect
Received from: purchased on Amazon.com
Goodreads: Fourteen
Days Later
Date
completed: 08.23.13
Description from the publisher:
Fourteen Days Later was short listed
for the Harry Bowling Prize 2008 and received a Highly Commended by the Yeovil
Literary Prize 2009. It is a romantic
comedy with a unique infusion of British and Turkish Cypriot culture. Written in a similar style to Marian Keyes, it
is My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Bridget Jones.
When accident-prone Helen Grey finds
a thong stuffed into the pocket of her boyfriend's best work trousers, it's
time for her to move on. His excuse that
he needed to dust the photocopier and just thought that it was a rag sounds
like a lame excuse.
Helen's life is propelled in an unexpected direction after her best friend, Ayshe, sets her a fourteen-day, life-changing challenge. Helen receives a task everyday which she must complete without question. The tasks are designed to build her confidence and boost her self-esteem but all they seem to do is push her closer to Ayshe's brother, Kalem.
How will Kalem and Helen get together when she's too foolish to realize that she loves him? How can he fall for her when he is too busy falling prey to her mishaps and too in love with his own perfect girlfriend? How will Kalem's Turkish Cypriot family react when they find out?
Is it really possible to change your life in fourteen days?
Helen's life is propelled in an unexpected direction after her best friend, Ayshe, sets her a fourteen-day, life-changing challenge. Helen receives a task everyday which she must complete without question. The tasks are designed to build her confidence and boost her self-esteem but all they seem to do is push her closer to Ayshe's brother, Kalem.
How will Kalem and Helen get together when she's too foolish to realize that she loves him? How can he fall for her when he is too busy falling prey to her mishaps and too in love with his own perfect girlfriend? How will Kalem's Turkish Cypriot family react when they find out?
Is it really possible to change your life in fourteen days?
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Merhaba Canims (hello, darlings!)
Helen Grey, wedding photographer
extraordinaire, is an absolute klutz, and that's only the beginning of the
trouble brewing around her. Ayshe and Kalem are her best friends since
childhood.
After six months of moping about her
two-timing ex, her friend Ayshe encourages her to take up fourteen days of
challenges.
The first one seemed tame enough –
she was to do a day of volunteering at the local dog shelter, taking a dog for
a walk. Helen manages to get a neighbor
upset when he witnesses the dog doing her business, terrorizes a child in his
pram, cartwheels down a hill, and loses the dog. After being patched up by a local doctor, she
calls Ayshe to pick her up, but Ayshe sends her brother Kalem.
Each challenge brings more mayhem: a
visit to the children's ward at the hospital, an art showing, Sunday-night
Singles Shopping, and always Kalem helping to pick up the pieces. Unfortunately, Kalem is off-limits. They have been friends since grammar
school. His Turkish Cypriot parents
would not want him to be serious with an English woman. So, admitting her attraction would cost her
his friendship, her best friend Ayshe, and the sense of belonging that has
developed between Helen and his family.
I had requested an ARC on
netgalley.com, but the download failed.
At first, I was just going to wave it off, but each time I went into
netgalley it was sitting there looking at me.
I loved the cover so much, I decided to go to Amazon and hit the
one-click. I am so glad I did! "Laughed out loud" doesn't even
begin to cover it. There were many parts
when I was laughing so hard I could not catch my breath. I'm looking forward to reading more from Ms.
Hodge!
The Helen Grey Series:
- Fourteen Days Later
- My Perfect Wedding
Other Books from Sibel Hodge:
- The Baby Trap
- The Fashion Police (Amber Fox Mystery)
- Be Careful What You Wish For (Amber Fox Mystery)
- Voodoo Deadly (Amber Fox Mystery)
- The See-Through Leopard
- How to Dump Your Boyfriend in the Men's Room (and other short stories)
- Trafficked: the Diary of a Sex Slave
Children's Books from this Author:
- It's a Catastrophe
originally posted 08.23.2013 on my
previous website
WordPress.com closed that site
because I promoted authors and their books
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