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Marianne (Australia) (2018/05/19):
4 stars
The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard is the first full-length novel in the Coco Pinchard series by British-born author, Robert Bryndza. It’s some twenty-three years since we met Coco in A Very Coco Christmas. She’s married to Daniel (but for how much longer?) and has a grown son, Rosencrantz. Her book “Chasing Diana Spencer” is not doing too well; her mother-in-law, Ethel seems to need a lot of attention; Rosencrantz is having dramas in career and romance; Daniel’s entertainment career seems to be going well, but keeps him absent. Readers may have suspected from the prequel that Daniel would not make the best husband: this is now confirmed, and Coco has to deal with divorce and the associated property division. She also gets to see the returns of her book pulped; has to switch off life-support; has to rescue someone from a US jail for drug possession; gets an allotment with attendant rules and drop-dead-gorgeous neighbour; takes a vacation in Slovakia; and writes a musical for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. All this we learn via emails to (ex-)husband, son, good friends Chris and Marika, her agent, her new agent, her newsagent, the takeaway shop; the bookshop; her (ex-)sister-in-law; a prospective nursing home for her (ex-)mother-in-law; a stair-lift company; the police; the allotment administrator; and the hot allotment neighbour. All very entertaining.
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