Chick Lit Reading Challenge # 20

This was a book that was recommended to me by a friend who works in my local library - she had enjoyed it and thought I would too.

Girl On The Run by Jane Costello:




He's a real catch ...if only she could catch him up Abby Rogers has been on health kicks before - they involve eating one blueberry muffin for breakfast instead of two. But since starting her own business, after watching one too many episodes of The Apprentice, the 28-year-old's waistline has taken even more of a back seat than her long-neglected love life. When Abby is encouraged to join her sporty best friend's running club - by none other than its gorgeous new captain - she finds a mysterious compulsion to exercise. Sadly, her first session doesn't go to plan. Between the obscenely unflattering pink leggings, and the fact that her lungs feel as though they've been set on fire, she vows never to return. Then her colleague Heidi turns up at work and makes a devastating announcement, one that will change her life - and Abby's - forever.

There are quite a few side-plots: the ups and downs of her business, her best friend's troubled marriage, her parents' difficult post-divorce relationship, her colleague's tumultuous love life, her other colleague's ill-health. Really, of these, the only one that really interested me was the plot about her business.

This is a witty easy read and did make me chuckle on places (re the thong incident!!) Apart form the main storyline of Abby taking up running as a fund raising scheme there are quite a few side plots - the ups and downs of running her own business, her friends marriage which appears to be on the rocks, her parents post divorce relationship etc.

I have never read anything by this author before - but have picked up another one from the library which is now sitting in my to be read pile.