Mr Make Believe

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Pub Date Apr 25 2017 | Archive Date Jul 12 2017

Description

Marnie Martin’s formerly perfect life is not quite going to plan. 

Hard-hitting newspaper journalist turned stay-at-home mum and part-time failing food columnist, Marnie is wondering when her life went so wrong.

While her husband Matt’s career takes off, she’s left with the impossible task of pairing socks and locating Lego. His late nights at the office are turning into late nights who knows where else and they haven’t had a proper conversation in weeks, sex in months, or a full night’s sleep in years. 

On the brink of losing everything when a fantasy about movie star Maddox Wolfe leads to a missed deadline and a disastrous case of food poisoning, Marnie becomes Mrs Make Believe: anonymous blogger, secret spiller, and voice of imperfect mums everywhere. 

However, Marnie Martin could never have imagined that her movie star daydream would walk off the screen and into her reality, turning her already muddled world totally on its head.

Will Marnie find happiness in the arms of the (literal) man of her dreams? Or will she find that true love is just make believe?

This laugh-out-loud romantic comedy will have you glued to your sofa. Journalist turned author, Beezy Marsh, is perfect for fans of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones, Tracy Bloom and The Bad Mother's Diary.

Marnie Martin’s formerly perfect life is not quite going to plan. 

Hard-hitting newspaper journalist turned stay-at-home mum and part-time failing food columnist, Marnie is wondering when her life...


A Note From the Publisher

If you've enjoyed reading Mr Make Believe, we'd really appreciate seeing your honest review on Amazon. Thank you, Ipso Books.

If you've enjoyed reading Mr Make Believe, we'd really appreciate seeing your honest review on Amazon. Thank you, Ipso Books.


Advance Praise

'Properly funny, deliciously naughty, fabulously fresh and achingly honest… I couldn't put it down.' - Alex Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Secret of Orchard Cottage

'Properly funny, deliciously naughty, fabulously fresh and achingly honest… I couldn't put it down.' - Alex Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Secret of Orchard Cottage


Marketing Plan

Are you interested in a Q&A with Beezy? For any inquiries, email hello@ipsobooks.com.

Feel free to join Beezy on Twitter (@beezymarsh) and see the build up to the book unfold there; you'll find brilliant quotes from the book, phrases from Marnie Martin's Imperfect Mum Dictionary and hilarious stories that inspired the book. 

You can also find her blogging on her Life-Love-Laundry blog and writing for The Motherload. 

Are you interested in a Q&A with Beezy? For any inquiries, email hello@ipsobooks.com.

Feel free to join Beezy on Twitter (@beezymarsh) and see the build up to the book unfold there; you'll find...


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781912194018
PRICE £7.99 (GBP)

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Featured Reviews

Super cute, touching, honest, relatable... moral dilemma and finding oneself. I enjoyed the book and appreciate the chance to put up my review as soon as Amazon allows me to do so

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Mr. Make Believe by Beezy Marsh is a hilarious women's fictional tale. A romantic comedy about life and marriage. Inside this book, readers will find a strong woman whose life changes after becoming a mother. Her fashion writing career comes to a halt as well as the romance in her marriage. Her career comes to a haunt, while her husband is to busy with his. Lately, he becomes more interested in his work and other things than in the woman he loved and married.

Marriage has its ups and downs. Beezy Marsh clearly shows readers just that withevery page. However, its more complicated than just a marriage suffering. The main charcater, Marnie finds a way to combat her dead end life. She creates a column about fantasy life. Her readers become so engaged in her that she ends up selling a book. By that time, Marine will have had a romance with her fantasy crush, experienced being cheated upon,and come to realize that her love for her husband is greater than what she thought. Whether she leaves her crush for her husband is for readers to figure out for themselves. I loved following this emotional journey.

Mr. Make Believe is the type of novel, that pulls in readers like myself. I became addicted. Page after page, the fun never stopped. The ending was just as brilliant as the beginning. Love, marriage, betrayal, and second chances are all inside this book. Beezy Marsh has a way with brining her charcaters and words to life. Over, I was satisfied with reading it. Highly recommend it to all.

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Mr Make Believe
Marnie Martin’s formerly perfect life is not quite going to plan.
Hard-hitting newspaper journalist turned stay-at-home mum and part-time failing food columnist, Marnie is wondering when her life went so wrong.
While her husband Matt’s career takes off, she’s left with the impossible task of pairing socks and locating Lego. His late nights at the office are turning into late nights who knows where else and they haven’t had a proper conversation in weeks, sex in months, or a full night’s sleep in years.
On the brink of losing everything when a fantasy about movie star Maddox Wolfe leads to a missed deadline and a disastrous case of food poisoning, Marnie becomes Mrs Make Believe: anonymous blogger, secret spiller, and voice of imperfect mums everywhere.
However, Marnie Martin could never have imagined that her movie star daydream would walk off the screen and into her reality, turning her already muddled world totally on its head.
Will Marnie find happiness in the arms of the (literal) man of her dreams? Or will she find that true love is just make believe?



Review of Mr Make Believe by Beezy Marsh

I have been lucky enough to have Beezy Marsh on my blog twice today! Beezy appeared on my blog this morning for an author interview and now I am blogging a review post about her new book Mr Make Believe. I was really delighted to receive a copy of this hilariously funny novel about parenting amongst other delights and straight away couldn't resist getting stuck into reading.

What an amazingly fun read! I wasn't disappointed. I totally immersed myself into this hilarious world of Marnie Martin. A complete joy to get away from my own hectic world and be tumbled headfirst into someone else's equally disastrous one! I could relate to a lot of the child rearing incidents with a mixture of nodding agreement and complete disbelief at how hard it is, and that I'm going through it daily too (except without the handsome movie star, shame!). I loved some of the cooking disasters, I think I would be the same!

Marsh has an easy style and flow to her writing that draws you in straight away. A great novel to read for perfect and imperfect mums everywhere!

A fun and laugh out loud read. Marnie's life shows the true chaos that parenting brings in a delightfully humorous way. I was worried that I would feel even more down at my own life with two tiny people, but this uplifting book certainly cheered my mood. Satisfying ending that'll lead you waiting for the next novel by Beezy Marsh.

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Witty, fast-paced & very hard to put down. ! Loved this one from start to finish and Marnie has to be one of the best fictional characters of 2017!

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This is a great book with a wonderful story and well developed characters. This book will keep you reading long into the night and you will not want to put this book down until you finish. This was such a great read and full of surprises. I am looking forward to reading the next book by this great author. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader’s copy of this book. The free book held no determination on my personal review.

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I was excited to hear about Mr Make Believe, the newly-released novel from journalist Beezy Marsh. I've been on the lookout for some funny reads over the past few weeks and this one was just perfect.

Marnie Martin, formerly an ambitious, hard-hitting journalist, is now a stay-at-home mum and food columnist whilst husband Matt, a successful barrister, is at work. However, when Marnie - who probably isn't the best person to be in charge of a food column - loses her job due to a paté fiasco - she feels as though she's hit rock bottom.

With Matt being out all hours, and going to events with his hot protegee, Marnie has turned her attention to Maddox Wolfe, gorgeous movie star and object of her desires, and finds herself glued to his movies at every opportunity. With Matt away and having nobody else to vent to, Marnie begins an anonymous blog, on which she writes about her life as a stay-at-home mum and her love for the super-hot Maddox...
Little does she know, the blog is about to take off, landing her the role of Mrs Make Believe, columnist and spokeswoman for mums everywhere. But when fame takes hold, Marnie's life begins to get that little bit out of control. And when she releases a bit of gossip about Maddox, she doesn't expect him to turn up at her office, let alone take her out for dinner.

As Marnie's marriage is slowly beginning to fall apart, her life as Mrs Make Believe is starting to take over. Sure, she may be famous - and not to mention close to her one-time crush, Maddox - but is it making her happy? When her mistakes are suddenly broadcast to the entire world, Marnie's new celeb alter-ego, Mrs Make Believe, is also at risk of crumbling.

This book is a fantastic read, one I struggled to put down. The plot is...well, to be honest, it's a bit outrageous. And that's exactly why I loved it. As Marnie goes from stay at home mum to celebrity, her life becomes a whirlwind, complete with celebrity romance, and it was very hard to stop reading. Nothing about this book was predictable.

The only issue I had with this book was Marnie's attitude towards Matt; I did feel that she overreacted a lot, and I did sympathise with him in quite a few places. For example, her anger at him having watched porn (even though she openly fantastises about Maddox whilst watching his movies), her reaction to him not wanting another child, even though he gave good reason as to why he thought it was a bad idea. I got the feeling that Matt was deliberately painted as a villain for these things, and I just couldn't see it.

That said, Marnie does change throughout this novel. And aside from the above, it is a fab read. It's witty, funny, romantic and with a wonderfully wild plot. I do hope that Beezy Marsh writes more like this, because Mr Make Believe is a brilliant novel.

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Great fun - good holiday read and easy to relate to.

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