Ten Minutes to Fall in Love

Julia Llewellyn, Top Ten bestselling author of The Model Wife and Amy's Honeymoon looks at finding - and keeping - your soulmate in Ten Minutes to Fall in Love. 
 
Zu Forbes has a complicated relationship with love. Her mother died when she was a teenager, leaving her with a lonely father and emotional baggage. So at the earliest opportunity she switched the baggage for luggage and took off around the world. 
 
But now she's home and working for a dating agency. Can she find the perfect match for her dad? If only she can pair him off, she can run away again with a clear conscience. 
 
While Zu busies herself fixing her dad's love life, she almost misses Cupid creeping up behind her. They say it takes ten minutes to fall in love so how can she be falling for someone she's known for years? And why is it taking so damn long to matchmake her dad? 
 
Zu must make a commitment one way or the other: to her love life; to her family; and to the memories of a mother she's tried so desperately to forget. 
 
Ten Minutes to Fall in Love is an engaging, witty and romantic story about finding that perfect person to share your life. 
 
 
Praise for Julia Llewellyn: 
 
'A perfect beach read' Elle 
 
'Engaging and entertaining' Evening Standard 
 
 
Julia Llewellyn is the author of The Love Trainer, If I Were You, Amy's Honeymoon, The Model Wife and Love Nest, all published as Penguin paperbacks. As Julia Llewellyn Smith she writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and many other publications. Julia lives in London with her family.

Julia Llewellyn is the author of The Love Trainer, If I Were You, Amy's Honeymoon, The Model Wife and Love Nest, all published as Penguin paperbacks. As Julia Llewellyn Smith she writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and many other publications. Julia lives in London with her family.

Zu Forbes has a complicated relationship with love. Her mother died when she was a teenager, leaving her with a lonely father and emotional baggage. So at the earliest opportunity she switched the baggage for luggage and took off around the world. 
 
But now she's home and working for a dating agency. Can she find the perfect match for her dad? If only she can pair him off, she can run away again with a clear conscience. 
 
While Zu busies herself fixing her dad's love life, she almost misses Cupid creeping up behind her. They say it takes ten minutes to fall in love so how can she be falling for someone she's known for years? And why is it taking so damn long to matchmake her dad? 
 
Zu must make a commitment one way or the other: to her love life; to her family; and to the memories of a mother she's tried so desperately to forget.

Love Nest

Julia Llewellyn is the author of The Love Trainer, If I Were You, Amy's Honeymoon and The Model Wife, all published as Penguin paperbacks. As Julia Llewellyn Smith she writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and many other publications. Julia lives in London with her family.

Roll the dice 
Grace's childhood home, Chadlicote Manor, is being sold to settle family debts. Will losing her home break her heart or is it the chance for a new life? 
 
... move two spaces 
Karen's husband has the Manor in his sights as a chance to start over in rural paradise. But Karen prefers city living and, when a new flame turns up the heat, starting again might just mean the end of the road. 
 
... climb the ladder 
Gemma is longing for a baby and, unlike her own loft apartment, Karen's house is an ideal family home. But the dream house can only have its dream baby if Gemma can convince her flakey sister to help out. 
 
... to land on 
Up-and-coming rockstar Nick has designs on Gemma's flat. He's also taken a shine to classy estate agent, Lucinda, but she's not all she seems - and neither is he, since he's hiding a girlfriend he's looking to ditch when the sale goes through. 
 
. . . the Love Nest 
where all their troubles come home to roost!

The Model Wife

A glorious tale of love, marriage and mayhem

A splendid romp &hellip; pack this one for the beach

Julia Llewellyn is the author of The Love Trainer, If I Were You and Amy's Honeymoon. She writes regularly for many publications, including the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Times. Julia Llewellyn lives in London

How to be A Model Wife 
 
 Your Husband&rsquo;s happiness is your happiness. 
 
Should you be His second wife, make friends with His first wife otherwise she&rsquo;ll destroy you. 
 
Never ask Him when He&rsquo;ll be home. 
 
Never ask Him where He&rsquo;s been. 
 
PAH! 
 
Twentysomething Poppy became a clich&eacute; when an accidental pregnancy presented her with a forty-nine year-old husband. But Luke Norton isn&rsquo;t any old husband &ndash; he&rsquo;s the anchorman for television&rsquo;s Seven O&rsquo;Clock News and his ruggedly handsome face is beloved by the nation. 
 
Life isn&rsquo;t coming up roses thanks to the first Mrs Norton&rsquo;s popular column, My Husband, The Bimbo and Me. Luke&rsquo;s having a midlife crisis and going AWOL, his former lovers are circling like sharks and Poppy&rsquo;s left holding the baby, her once glitzy modeling career a horribly dim memory. 
 
It&rsquo;s time for her to fight back and show the world exactly what she&rsquo;s made of &hellip;

Amy's Honeymoon

Julia Llewellyn is a fabulously feel-good writer destined to meet Sophie Kinsella at the top of the charts

Julia Llewellyn is the author of Travels Without My Aunt: In the Footsteps of Graham Greene, The Love Trainer and If I Were You. She writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and many other publications. Julia lives in London.

A five star honeymoon in Rome &ndash; what more could a girl want? 
 
In Amy&rsquo;s case, a husband might come in handy &hellip; but, with the cost of a cancelled wedding to mop up and no chance of a refund on the honeymoon, she&rsquo;s jetting off to bask in the Italian sunshine alone. 
 
Except no one seems willing to leave her alone. If it&rsquo;s not nosy hotel guests, it&rsquo;s famous movie stars desperate to exchange suites. How&rsquo;s a girl supposed to wallow in misery when, under protest, she&rsquo;s dragged off to shop till she drops, or to film premieres or intimate picnics &agrave; deux? 
 
But why was the wedding called off? Where is the absent groom? And can movie stars really fall in love with the girl next door? 
 
You&rsquo;d be mad to miss out on this Roman holiday &hellip;

The Love Trainer

Slick, urban romantic fiction for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Jane Green and Sex and the City.

Julia Llewellyn is a writer and journalist who lives in London. The Love Trainer is her first novel.

Katie Wallace had her heart broken once - never again. So she decides to becomes a Love Trainer, a unique service provider who can answer the following questions: 
 
1 Should I call him even though he hasn't called me? 
2 When he turns up in the middle of the night drunk and wanting a shag, should I say yes? 
3 Why is it so hard when I'm not even sure he's the man I want to marry? 
 
Is Katie right? Can you train men to be better boyfriends? Or is she playing the game of love with the wrong set of rules - a game which can only lead to her and those she helps getting hurt ...?

Julia Llewellyn

Rosie is used to being in the background whenever she's out with Jake, it's a given when you are married to a famous actor. But she didn't expect to be second best to him with her best friend Christy - even if she is his agent. 
 
The higher Jake's star rises the further away the two people Rosie is closest to seem to be. And when she discovers something in Jake's past she never knew she begins to wonder how well she knows the man she's married to and if her best friend really is someone she can trust . . .

Julia Llewellyn

Praise for Lovestruck

Engaging and entertaining

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