At eighteen, she was introduced to Matthew Farrell, a young man from the opposite side of the tracks, who’d been invited to an exclusive country club by some of her acquaintances. Her social status, however, couldn’t protect her from being an outcast in the school her father sent her to, so she was always acutely aware of those less fortunate than herself. You may be tempted to dismiss it as just another book about misunderstandings or millionaires, but it might end up surprising you.Īs the heiress to a department store fortune, Meredith Bancroft grew up in a world of wealth and privilege. Paradise is the story of a young man and woman in love who are cruelly parted and the people they become eleven years later. What if it doesn’t measure up? I loved the book because I am a die-hard McNaught fan, (McNaught’s Something Wonderful was my first non-Mills & Boon romance) but what if it wasn’t as good as I remembered? I had picked it up as a weekend respite, I still ended up laughing and crying like I had no idea what was going to happen next.

A part of me was hesitant to review an old favourite. The book that is to blame for this decision is Paradise by New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught. Unless I can’t help myself, I will stick to books that are relaxing, funny, exciting, thrilling and much, much more. This year, my resolution is a lot simpler. As a result, I ended up enjoying almost every single book I laid my hands on in 2015.

Last year, I resolved to become a better reader instead of a faster reader, picking quality over quantity. This feeling is based on no facts whatsoever but I’ve been saying it to every person I’ve talked to in the past two days.

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