Mini Skirts and Laughter Lines in Ask Carol E. Wyer

Oct 17, 2012 Chris James rated it really liked it

This is not my normal genre, but I decided to give a Mini Skirts and Laughter Lines a go after chatting with the author on social networking sites and enjoying her sense of humour.
The story follows Amanda Wilson as she reaches 50 and all the things she has to juggle: her retired husband Phil, who is obsessed with his diminishing investments, her 21-year-old son Tom, a university drop-out and bit of a slob, and her slightly-mad mother, who patronises Mandy at every opportunity. Then an old flame, ...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Carol W rated it it was amazing

This novel tells the story of Amanda's life through her blog posts on her blog Facing 50 with Humour. Amanda, uses her blog to record the daily challenges of a woman in her 50's adjusting to early retirement with her husband, Phil, and son Tom.

Amanda blogs about her neighbours, shopping trips, parties, the financial market, her mother and a long lost love who has recently befriended her again on Facebook.

There are some very funny postings and some quick witted comments from her followers, that ...more

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Feb 10, 2012 Nikki Bywater rated it it was amazing

Amanda Wilson is about to hit the big 5 0 in age. She decides to create a blog, and to write on her blog all about her life as she reaches this milestone birthday. Living with a husband who is more interested in watching ‘Russia Today’ than in Amanda and she knows this because she had tried to get his attention by strutting in front of the television in only thigh boots and a thong! Also living with her son who having dropped out of university and is living back in the family home, amongst his a ...more

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Oct 17, 2012 Yvonne Hertzberger rated it it was amazing

What do you do when you are a woman facing 50, your husband is retired and grumpy about everything, especially money and you are bored? Why, you start blogging, of course. What else? And what if your mother is having fun in Greece when you are stuck at home with Grumpy? What if, out of the blue, you get email messages from an old flame – a handsome, romantic old flame, who still makes your heart go pitter-pat? And your on-line friends make suggestive comments when you reveal said flame? You’re a ...more

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Apr 06, 2013 Janie Morris rated it it was amazing

This book was recommended to me by a keen reader and friend who came across it last year, having seen an article about Ms Wyer in a national magazine. I initially thought this would be a chick -lit novel. How wrong was I?
Carol E Wyer's debut novel is written in the form of a series of blog entries and is probably one of the wittiest books I have read to date.
Facing 50 myself I could relate to the main character's anxieties and by the end of the book I felt I had been sitting talking to my new be ...more

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May 18, 2013 Carol rated it it was amazing

Like some of the other reviewers, I found out about this book by reading some of the author's blog posts, and her follow up emails. Mini Skirts and Laughter Lines exceeded my expectations. Carol is a great story teller, her characters are so human, and so like people in my own family that I could easily relate to them. After a bit, I felt like I really knew them, and couldn't wait to find out what happened next in their lives. I also loved how she weaved in lessons about love and building relati ...more

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