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Home Truths
by
Freya North
Freya North reunites her popular McCabe girls - sisters Cat, Fen and Pip - in her warm and sexy new novel. Despite their mother having run off with a cowboy from Denver when they were small, and having been brought up in a draughty house in Derbyshire by their eccentric uncle, Django, the McCabe girls actually consider themselves very normal and well-adjusted. Pip is stepm...more
453 pages
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(first published September 2007)
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For my hospital visit today I decided to take Freya North's Home Truth paperback with me to see me through the tedious day. It is the second book by Freya North I have read and I found it was as good as the first. An easy read that does not require enormous amounts of concentration which helps when you have machines buzzing in your ear!!
This book introduces us to the McCabe family, sisters Fen, Pip, and Cat and their Uncle Django.
Cat the youngest of the sisters is married to Ben who is a docto...more
This book introduces us to the McCabe family, sisters Fen, Pip, and Cat and their Uncle Django.
Cat the youngest of the sisters is married to Ben who is a docto...more
Cat, Fen and Pip are sisters they were raised by their Uncle Django
after their mother ran off with a Cowboy when they were young.
Cat – Has come home after 4 years abroad she is married to Ben who is a
Doctor and is planning a baby.
Fern- Is a mum to Cosima and wants to make a better job of it than her
mother she is very over protective and her marriage to Matt doesn’t
look great.
Pip- Works as a professional clown, she is married to Tom and has a
Step-son (from tom’s previous relationship) Zac.
Dj...more
after their mother ran off with a Cowboy when they were young.
Cat – Has come home after 4 years abroad she is married to Ben who is a
Doctor and is planning a baby.
Fern- Is a mum to Cosima and wants to make a better job of it than her
mother she is very over protective and her marriage to Matt doesn’t
look great.
Pip- Works as a professional clown, she is married to Tom and has a
Step-son (from tom’s previous relationship) Zac.
Dj...more
Having read Pip, Cat and Fen i was excited to read of them going home and to find out some "Home truths". The home truths were bog standard. I found the characters to be stagnant and little progression from their individual stories.
Had their stories ran their course? Yes!
After their happy endings what more was there? very little. Yes the home truths shook things up as little, but the characters had been given such a strong family base in the other books it was clear they were unbreakable.
The...more
Had their stories ran their course? Yes!
After their happy endings what more was there? very little. Yes the home truths shook things up as little, but the characters had been given such a strong family base in the other books it was clear they were unbreakable.
The...more
I was after something light and thought this might be too light but it worked out well. I almost didn't pick it up off the library shelf but then saw it was a follow on book featuring the sisters Pip, Fen & Cat from earlier books by the author. The earlier books were very "girl meets boy and lives happily ever after". This therefore must be about how the "happily ever after" bit works out. Which it is. And I enjoyed it a lot. It's quite bittersweet in places, not always frivolous, the charac...more
I really liked the way that this book tied together the other three books about the McCabe sisters but cleverly still left the way open for further books if Freya North ever decided to revisit the family. Her style can be irritating at times but in comparison to Cat, which occasionally made me want to scream, this is much better. I would recommend reading Fen, Pip and Cat first before this book as even though it is stand alone it contains 'spoilers' from the other books which would ruin some plo...more
Read Cat, Fen and Pip books before reading Home Truths. Loved all the stories so I was excited to read what happened next. However some of the story didn't match up. Cat had apparently been living in America for 4years. Yet little Tom has only aged 2years from the Pip book. I know this came out later than the other two but I'm sure Cat was living in the uk the whole of that book. But apart from that confusion I found the book to be great.
If you're going to read chick-lit (which lets fact it, every so often I am) you might as well read Freya North. Home Truths is chick-lit for grown-ups - it explores what happens after you bag the man of your dreams and throws in babies, infidelties and family revelations for good measure. Whilst still managing to provide the brainless escapism that you pick up chick-lit for in the first place.
Not my favourite book of hers but still I enjoyed it! A few predictable twists but a few unpredictable ones thrown in too!!
wonderful book with fully rounded characters. laughter and tears and plenty else besides.
Really enjoyed this book, great to see the complicated lives of other families.
Easy, chicklit read.
This was alright, but I didn't like most of the characters much - except Pip - and the ending felt inconclusive. I haven't read the preceding books, so might have enjoyed it more if I knew more about the characters.
I remember really enjoying the first three books with these characters: Fen, Pip and Cat. So I was very excited to see what has happened to each of them after the original romances. Well, aside from discovering the mystery of their mother and getting a bit more insight into their uncle's motivations... it was just okay. Probably still a good summer read if you're familiar with the other novels but nothing special to go out and get for itself.
Absolutely loved this book. It had it all for me. Was a little unhappy with the ending but then I suppose that's the ending that most made sense. I'd have like to have known what happened after though.
Great read. Loved it couldn't put it down. Full of little twists and turns all the way through and felt part of the characters lives.
I bought this from ASDA the other day for £1. ONE POUND!? F*cking supermarkets. Although I am clearly condoning this extreme discounting by buying the bloody book.
I really enjoyed Freya North's first three books about Fen, Cat and Pip so thought I'd give this one a read. I say that because since those early titles I've not enjoyed North's books as much.
This one was ok. Chick-lit of the 'read it once and then forget it' variety. If you're in that kind of mood, it will meet the need, but I'd be more likely to recommend Melissa Nathan.
This one was ok. Chick-lit of the 'read it once and then forget it' variety. If you're in that kind of mood, it will meet the need, but I'd be more likely to recommend Melissa Nathan.
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Freya North was born on 21 November 1967 in London, England, UK. She gave up a PhD scholarship to write her first novel, Sally. For 4 years she turned deaf ears to parents and friends who pleaded with her to ‘get a proper job’. She went on the dole and did a succession of freelance and temping jobs to support “writing days” every now and then. In 1996 she approached one of the UK’s top literary ag...more
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