Books by Cathy Lamb
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review 1: I spent half an hour writing a lengthy review for this, clicked save and waited overnight while the internet tried in vain to upload it. Sadly I had failed to save it first. I can't bear to rewrite it, but will say that I loved this book. It is primarily a book about relationship...
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review 1: This book is as heartbreaking as it is inspiring; while reading it I was, by turns, horrified and crying as I was laughing and pumping my fist in the air. Cathy Lamb's The First a Day of the Rest of My Life is a story comprising many stories. Alternating between the present and t...
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review 1: As with all of Cathy Lamb's books, I find it difficult to form a proper review. Her characters, while eccentric, are so REAL, that I find myself wishing I could find friends as true and unflagging in their support as her main characters have. This book, although I had pretty much...
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review 1: In my opinion, the characters fell flat as a pancake in this novel. The three sisters grew up in an extremely neglectful home, raised by a mother steeped in false pride and deep depression that sent her to bed for months. The father abandoned the family due to PTSD after fighting...
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review 1: When I first started reading this story, I was not sure I would like it....thought perhaps it was just a ChickLit book. Boy was I wrong. It was an amazing story...powerfully told.I immediately fell in love with the heroine of the story, Stevie Barrett....a young lady who had re...
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review 1: I enjoyed this book. The author did take on a lot though and so it takes a while to really catch you. The many themes are distracting in the beginning, drug addiction, witches, single parents, teenage angst, helicopter parenting, dysfunctional family .... It is hard to develop a ...
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review 1: I almost put this book down after the first few pages, completely uninterested in reading it. Thankfully, I stuck with it. I otherwise would have missed out on a deeply emotional story of what it means to be family - love, hate, and unwavering support. It's been a long time since...
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review 1: I picked this up on a whim at the library when I was looking for something by Wally Lamb, and was captivated by the summary on the jacket. As other reviewers have commented the idea behind the plot is captivating: the central character goes through bariatric surgery after experie...