the word chick as a simple term . It can refer either to a baby bird, especially a baby chicken, or to a young woman. When used to refer to a young woman, it can, sometimes, be considered offensive.
The novel, initiating the field of «chick lit» was: »Bridget Jones s Diary» by H. Fielding, 1996. Helen Fielding s «Bridget Jones s Diary» and Candace Bushnell s «The Sex and the City» are examples of such work that helped to establish contemporary connotations of the term. The subgenre raises issues of everyday life of women consumer culture, appearance, the concept of «success» career. Authors and heroines approach these questions with great humor and a fair amount of self-irony, that led to our interest in the works of this genre as a material for researchicle's humor and self-irony, the heroine is never perfect beauty, virtuous and highly positive. On the contrary, they are characterized by defects and bad habits. Important for their heroines «urban family» are friends. The presence of the main character - a man of the dreams - not always noticeable, love line is not always central. The heroine has other worries besides a life - self-discovery, career, friendship.
Ms. Mansell s books are easy reading books, that pull you in to the lives of the characters and don t let go until you finish the story. She is known as a chick lit bestselling author with smart, sassy style . Jill Mansell's books have sold over five million copies [29].
Mansell grew up in the Cotswolds and attended Sir William Romney's School in Tetbury. After working at the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol for many years she became a full-time writer in 1992. She lives in Bristol with her partner and children.
Jill Mansell's writing style, with its many levels of humor, its multiple plots, and intriguing characters, makes «A Walk in the Park», 2012, splendid reading. It is funny, sassy, ??and it lifts the spirit. Mansell knows how to create characters. It not only oozes modern romance, but also sarcasm and wit. Lots of situational humor, tragedy, and foresight that you wish the characters could see.
Jane Green (born in 1968 in London, England) is an US-based British author. She attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and worked as a journalist throughout her twenties, writing women's features for The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan and others. She is also considered a founder of the genre known as chick lit. Jane Green has written 12 best selling novels all dealing with women and falling under the chick-lit genre. They even have (with Jill Mansell) the same title of one of the book - A Walk in The Park. Frequent themes in her most recent books include cooking, class wars, children, infidelity, and female friendship. She says she does not write about her life, but is inspired by the themes of her life. «Second Chance», 2007, was on the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks during the summer of 2008 [30].
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in тисячу дев'ятсот шістьдесят сім and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles before finishing her education at St Mary s Convent in Cambridge. She read English at New College, Oxford, and has travelled extensively in Spain and Central America [30]. Travel writing about Italy might be an oversubscribed genre, but The Last Supper more than earns its place at the table », - Celia Brayfield, The Times (London) says. The Last Supper is a wonderful travel book about life on the most famous art trail in the world, from one of Britain s most pre-eminent writers. Cusk is a natural and gifted writer from whom dazzling descriptions, analyses, metaphors and similies gush forth in rich profusion ... delightful and perceptive. - Daily Telegraph [31] .Gardian asked the author: What do you mean by what you call «the feminist principle of autobiographical writing»? «I mean that there is, for me, a defensible principle of autobiography where female experience is concerned; defensible in the sense that I personally would defend my decision to write about my own life, against the accusation that it is merely so much self-obsession or is the product of a self-obsessed culture. If there is a disjuncture between how women live and how they actually feel - which to me there is, in motherhood and marriage - I will feel entitled to attempt to articulate it. And given that this disjuncture is usually deeply personal, and relates to a personalised problem with a generalised image, autobiography becomes the best possible form for this articulation to take », - she answered [32] .Weisberger (born 1977) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada, a s...
