Cat Lady: The hot, must-read Richard & Judy Book Club novel for summer 2023 from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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The moral of the story is, no one's life is perfect, which is told in both a humourous and poignant way. In contrast to this though, others just outright disturbed me, the main being (creepy babe guy) who had a questionable understanding of what consent was at the best of times and was just straight weird. She sleeps in a separate room from her husband and pencils in sex several times a week - she won't sleep with him because he doesn't want animals in their bed after a strange occurrence.

Mia really goes through the motions in this, and there are other characters that I loved to hate, and times I wanted to scream at them. I loved laughing with/at some of the characters and I was emotionally destroyed* as I watched some of the characters' lives unravel. The story skips along – and has the standard SHOCK moment that I’ve come to expect from Dawn’s fiction books. Tristan, her husband is irritating and very annoying and her high powered boss is ignorant and selfish but someone who also lives a life different to their inner feelings. There are some weird inconsistencies: there is one mention of the pandemic “There is a woman sitting next to me with a horrible cough.The ending was very sweet but could only really have occurred with some kind of divine intervention! I’m glad others did enjoy it and get benefit from it but for me this was just too far in what should have been a very heart wrenching story of falling to rock bottom and building yourself back up. Dawn is the bestselling author of the novels The Cows and the Richard and Judy Book Club pick So Lucky, and her non-fiction title Life in Pieces was also a Sunday Times bestseller. This is a mature top range rom-com, where the "rom" is on the the periphery and the "com" is what this is all about.

A delightful dark-ish comedy set around a "my pet has died" grief counselling group and essentially about forming and living one's best-self and not taking on a label that society expects from you.I tried to persevere with it and see if it could get any better (or worse) but it just started to make me feel so uncomfortable that I just couldn’t carry on. Dawn O'Porter is a broadcaster, novelist and print journalist who lives in Los Angeles with her husband Chris, cat Lilu and dog Potato. Over the course of the book her life spirals in all different ways possible, and you do feel sorry for her as a character. I initially thought I was being petty – but it would appear many other ARC readers on Net Galley felt the same! I have to say I didn’t particularly like any of the characters – so I wasn’t Team Mia – but equally wasn’t Team Anyone Else.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. But sweet hell, some of the encounters and thoughts that the main character had were just unnecessary and outright disturbing. I never thought a book could truly be comedic the way people often describe them to be but I am a changed woman now.It was heading for 1-star, which is rare for me, but I’ll admit I did like the ending, which redeemed it a little - but not enough to recommend it. It was hilarious and made me laugh out loud, it made me angry, it made me sad, it made me cry and made me feel happy. What Mia is truly lacking are friends and she's so lonely that she joins a therapy group for people who are grief-stricken after losing their pets - even though hers is still very much alive. Not something I think a lot of women would endure and I was overjoyed to see Mia handling her own with the woman’s snooty attitude.