JHB South East - April 2021
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Book club<br />
A little heartbreak, happy endings, and a great celebratory win!<br />
Rocking<br />
back-to-back<br />
double gold<br />
medals,<br />
including one<br />
in the Rosé Rocks<br />
competition, FAT<br />
bastard ROSÉ 2020<br />
is a gorgeous salmon pink<br />
wine which tastes of fresh<br />
berries. Delicious and affordable<br />
(R95 a bottle), it’s the perfect choice<br />
for these last days of Summer.<br />
Details: fatbastardwine.co.za<br />
6 Get It Joburg <strong>South</strong> • Alberton • Bedfordview • Greenstone • Modderfontein <strong>April</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
Romance. Friendship. Joy. And the possibility of happy endings. What more do you want in<br />
a feel-good read? In the latest Katie Fforde (love her) release, Lizzie’s mother is keen for her<br />
to have A Wedding in the Country, to a suitable chap chosen, obviously, by mum. And to<br />
learn how to be a ‘good wife’, she’s sent off to cookery school in London. It’s 1963 … and<br />
London is swinging! Lizzie cuts her hair, buys a mini dress and moves in with two great<br />
friends. All of her mum’s plans are forgotten. She’s going to have fun … even if that entails<br />
falling in love with someone who appears to be engaged to someone else. The perfect<br />
read for a lazy <strong>East</strong>er weekend. • Dodging doctor’s orders, 17-year-old Lenni, who’s living<br />
in the terminal ward, joins an art class where she bumps into fellow hospital patient<br />
Margot, a rebel-hearted 83-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they<br />
realise that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years. To celebrate<br />
their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories … of growing old and staying<br />
young, of giving joy and receiving kindness, of losing love and finding the person who<br />
is everything. Fiercely alive, disarmingly funny and brimming with tenderness, The One<br />
Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin unwraps the extraordinary<br />
gift of life, even when it is about to be taken away, and revels in our infinite capacity for<br />
friendship and love when we need them most. Keep the tissues at your side. • Was there<br />
a single book club in the late 1990s which didn’t have The Notebook on the must-read<br />
list? Impossible. And now, 25 years after its first release, Nicholas Sparks’ love story to end<br />
all love stories is being released. It’s the story of Noah Calhoun, who returns from war and,<br />
in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, sets his mind and his body to restoring an<br />
old plantation home to its former beauty. But he’s haunted by memories of the beautiful<br />
Allie, who he’d met years before … a girl who stole his heart at the funfair, whose parents<br />
didn’t approve, a girl he wrote to every day for a year. When she turns up on his doorstep,<br />
he has a chance to win her back. Small problem … she’s engaged to someone else.<br />
You’ve seen the movie … you may have read the book … but read it (and weep) again<br />
anyway. It’s not called a classic heartbreaker for nothing. And to celebrate the 25th<br />
anniversary edition, we’ve got a special giveaway … three people can win a copy of The<br />
Notebook plus a case of Fat bastard Rosé … your next book club<br />
get-together’s going to be very special indeed. To enter, visit Get It National Magazines<br />
on Facebook and enter on The Notebook’s post.<br />
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