Girl in a Spin: a witty, quirky love story

Girl in a Spin by Clodagh Murphy is a story of a party girl who is in love with a political leader and needs the help of a spin doctor to become more respectable and presentable. Jenny Hannigan is a girl with a murky past. When she finds herself in the arms of Richard Allam, a political leader, she thinks she finally found love. However, she isn’t actually wife material for a potential Prime Minister. Enter Devlin “Dev” Tennant, the spin doctor, is hired to clean up her image. She follow’s Dev’s advice as she tries to fit into Richard’s world, impressing his stuffy colleagues and his disapproving friends and keeping the media at bay. With the election campaign gaining speed and her life spinning out of control, Jenny wonders if she has been looking for happily ever after in the wrong place. 

Girl in a Spin is my first book by Ms. Murphy and right from the start, she offers a witty, quirky love story with lots of laughs. Jenny was a hard character to like at first. She is a wounded soul who hides her pain behind a sarcastic and a “love ‘em and leave ‘em” attitude. I wasn’t sure why she was in a relationship with Richard. I definitely didn’t like Richard. I loved Dev. I enjoyed his initial meeting with Jenny at a wedding they both didn’t want to be at. Their flirtatious banter instantly clicked and was fun to read. I also enjoyed her roommates, Liam and Ollie, and the family-bond they created. Overall, I enjoyed the story. I wanted to see Jenny grow and mature. If you enjoy laugh, quirky chick-lit romance, I recommend Girl in a Spin. 

Girl in a Spin is available in paperback and eBook

The Jolly Coroner: a quirky story about a small town coroner

The Jolly Coroner by Quentin Canterel is a quirky story about a Texas town. Billy Rufino is the town’s coroner and he encounters many interesting and unique people while on the job.

Billy was the only applicant for the job of Hokum, Texas coroner. He has interesting cases which baffles the mind. Basyli Jach is a man who has been declared died but is still very much alive. He lives in a state of limbo as he cannot prove who is he and needs Billy’s help to straightened out the snafu. Riley is a man who believes his wife and daughters are dead and wants Billy to release their bodies for burial. However, he doesn’t believe Billy when he tell him that his family survives. A woman enters his life as he rescues her from near drowning. Soon the situations with Jach and Riley come to a boiling point. What can Billy do? Who is this woman who has entered his life? And how does a story, “The Ballad of Jean and Reg,” play into the crazy town of Hokum?

The Jolly Coroner is an interesting and quirky story filled with fantastical characters and wild images. The book was a little hard to get into with jumps into side stories and social commentaries and philosophical lectures from a character called the Warden. However, once the story started rolling and the reader begins to see the links between the side stories and philosophical ideas. The Jolly Coroner isn’t light reading. It’s reading which will take some thought and time as you digest all the events. If you are a fan of quirky, satirical and strange stories, you will enjoy The Jolly Coroner.

The Jolly Coroner

is available on Amazon

in paperback for $14.99

and on the Kindle for $5.99