A Good Heart is Hard to Find: The hilarious and charming rom-com from the Sunday Times bestseller

I'm a big fan of Trisha Ashley's and was looking forward to reading this - knowing it was one of her early novels reissues under a new title and thinking it was one I hadn't read. However, it was clear to me within a few pages that I had read it back in the day - before I started obsessively tracking my reading (or possibly when I was using a different book tracker which shut down and I had to migrate across and lost a few things in the process).Anyway, this is Singled Out under a new title and tells the story of schlock horror writer Cass, who was disowned by her parents when she took up with a married man 20 years ago and who is now wondering whether he really is the man for her at all. She's approaching her mid40s and desperately wants a baby, but Max has just taken a job in America for a year with the disabled wife he told Cass only had a few years to live two decades ago. So she starts to look around for other options - maybe her best friend Jason, but he has a wicked temper and his wife is mysteriously AWOL or there's the new mysterious bloke up at the Hall who she finds disturbingly appealing. Add to this her twin sister - always her parent's favourite - turning up suddenly out of favour and Cass's life is taking a turn.I enjoyed this mostly for the clues it gives to what Trisha has go on to do - there's an eccentric dad, a hippy-ish heroine, the dark and brooding hero and the tight-knit female friendships that we've got used to all here in slightly proto form. This is a bit weirder and a bit less developed that once Trisha hit her stride a few novels later and Cass is one of the wetter and weirder heroines. The big absence (compared to Ashley's most recent books) is that there's no cooking. Cass lives off pub food and shop-bought pizzas and so there's no lovely collection of recipes for baking or chocolatey treats to imagine. So it may split the established fans a bit as it's so different.

I decided to treat myself to another Trisha Ashley book, she’s my favourite author and I’m never disappointed with her books.This time I bought her book called “A Good Heart is Hard to Find”.Originally, this book was published by Piatkus in 2003 under a different name, it was called “Singled Out”. Trisha hasn’t rewritten it she’s just tweaked it and given it a little polish.Cassandra Leigh is an author who enjoys writing, but her personal life is in turmoil.Poor Cass has been having an affair with Max for over 20 years; he’s married to an invalid wife and won’t leave her. She's has wanted a baby with Max for a long time but he doesn’t want one, and now at 44 years old she thinks she’ll never be able to have one.Max decides to go abroad to work and take his wife with him, Cass is devastated about this and decides it’s time to do something about it.Cass goes to Kedge Hall, the local people who live nearby call it “The Haunted Manor”, and that’s when Cassandra’s troubles begin!That's all I'm going to say about the story as I don't want to spoil it for anyone who wants to read it.The author has done a great job with the story and has given her characters plenty of depth.This story catches your attention from the first page and keeps it until the end; it’s a constant page turner, which is how I love my books.Personally, I think this is a fantastic novel, which will delight all Trisha Ashley fans. If you’ve never read any of her books it’s a great one to start off with. :-)I can highly recommend this book. :-)

Usually love Trisha Ashley books & can’t put them down but this one didn’t do it for me. Found it really hard to get into, main character Cass just annoyed me and the horror book quotes just ruined the flow. Sorry, still a fan but definitely not one of my favourites for a re-read!

I always enjoy Trisha Ashley books but did not realise that this was an older book re released under a different title - its a good job I hadn't read it before (it was previously called Singled Out). It was quite an amusing, light hearted book, easy to read, but I don't know how Cassie could eat that much pizza and not put on weight!! You do wonder when she will finally realise who is the man for her!

Had to force myself to finish this and skipped some of the text. Got really fed up with all the weird extracts from the main character's writing. Found all of the characters unbelievable and annoying. Not a book for me.