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'Tracy's 20's Hot Mail: Older. Not Wiser' by T.A Belshaw

Book Description


HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!


Tracy is shocked to find that she’s hit her mid-twenties. Worried about her sagging boobs and her broadening bottom, she has scary visions of being thirty, middle aged and unable to get any celebrity work.


Fed up of the endless battles between her Marxist father and a grandmother that makes Attila the Hun look like Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies, she decides it’s time to flee the nest and moves into an ex-council flat on the rough side of town.


Deciding to hold a sophisticated dinner party, Tracy struggles to compile the perfect guest list. More problems arise when she is unable to follow a Nigella Bites recipe.


Will the party go with a bang? Will the people on her hastily assembled guest list hit it off? Why is that ‘tart’ Olivia suddenly in her thoughts? And what could possibly go wrong when Tracy lands a starring role in a remake of the pottery scene from the film, Ghost?


Tracy’s 20's Hot Mail. Older doesn’t always mean wiser.





BOOK REVIEW



Review for 'Tracy's 20's Hot Mail' by T.A Belshaw.



Read and reviewed for T.A Belshaw.



Publication Date 23rd December 2022..



This is the fourth book I have read by this author. It is also the third book in the 'Tracy's Hot Mail' series but can be read as a standalone. I have previously read 'Tracy's Hot Mail' which is the first book in the series, 'Tracy's Celebrity Hot Mail' which is the second book in the series and 'What Tracy Did Next' which is the third book in the series. I would highly recommend reading them all!!



This novel consists of 34 chapters/emails/diary entries/WhatsApp messages. The chapters are short in length so easy to read 'just one more chapter' before bed...OK, I know yeah right, but still just in case!



OMFG!!! I CANNOT REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I LAUGHED SO MUCH OR SO HARD 😂 😂 ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!



I absolutely love, love, LOVE this absolutely hilarious series and I cannot wait until the next one comes out!!! These books are definitely the ONES to pick up if you are feeling down or just want a side splitting laugh!! The great thing about these books is that they can be read in any order although I would always recommend reading books in the right order to get the most of them. I genuinely didn't think a book could get any funnier after reading 'Tracy's Hot Mail' (book 1 in the series) 'Tracy's Celebrity Hot Mail' (book 2 in the series) and 'What Tracy Did Next' (book 3 in the series) but this book completely smashed it!! I was in absolute stitches so many time I lost count. It is very hard to make a sequel that is as good as the previous three books but you definitely did that T.A Belshaw as I absolutely LOVED IT!!! All four of the books in the fantastic 'Tracy's Hot Mail' series are absolutely cracking reads! It is such a refreshing larger than life read. I absolutely devoured it in a few hours and got quite a few funny looks when I burst out laughing while reading it outside the school waiting for my son... I advise you not to do this!! I literally laughed out loud and had tears streaming down my eyes. I have read many books that made me laugh but very few that had my jaw dropping one second and then howling in laughter the next within the first few sentences!!! I loved the double entendres that were littered throughout this book and TA Belshaw placed them perfectly!!! The only criticism I can struggle to think of is the fact that we don't get to see 'Gran' and 'Dad' insulting each other as much but it is also nice to see Tracy moving out and on with her life at the same time. However, I would love to see 'Gran' and 'Dad' visiting her in the next series and kicking off with each other as usual 😂!!


Although this is the fourth book in the series I had would have had absolutely no problems reading it without the others. Any details or events that have previously happened are mentioned in just the right amount of detail to let a new reader know what has happened and yet not too much to bore a previous reader.


I absolutely love the fact that this book is written in the format of emails, diary entries and WhatsApp messages as it means you can easily finish a chapter quickly and then pick up back where you left off when your ready, not that I needed to do this as I flew through it so quickly. It is such an easy and fast paced read you can easily read it anywhere. Pick up this book and get ready to meet the most strangest, naive, pervy people you have ever met!!! Tracy constantly made me laugh with her naivety and TA Belshaw captured her essence perfectly in his writing while also showing what life can be like for young women. Tracy was definitely entertaining with her naivety but some of the things that she did were also worthy of a cringe award!! The gossip that Tracy writes to Emma and in her diaries about include her family, her work, her dinner plans, her new neighbours, the men she meets, her body changes, her nemesis Olivia and so much more. Although Tracy is extremely dippy she is also a very likable character and I can't wait to see what she gets up to next!!! Please, please PLEASE tell me you are never going to stop writing Tracy books Trevor!!!!



Pick up your copy today to “meet“ Tracy and



😂 Her Dad who has a dodgy job selling nicked veg and serious problems with her Gran 😂



😂 See how she gets on in her own flat 😂



😂 Where Tracy's ex couldn't fit a single cube of Dairy Milk Chocolate 😂



😂 How she gets on with her new artistic neighbour 😂



😂 Spotty Irene who tries all sorts to clear her face and ends up seeing giant mice 😂



😂 See how well her first meeting with her new downstairs neighbour goes😂



😂What ended up like a smashed up fireplace 😂



😂 How Tracy ends up in bed with Charles' girlfriend Camilla😂



And so, so, so much more!! However to find out you need to pick up a copy yourself. Be warned though DO NOT make the mistake of reading it in public like I did as I got many funny looks when I burst out laughing for apparently no reason!!



Although this is the fourth book in the series I had would have had absolutely no problems reading it without the others. Any details or events that have previously happened are mentioned in just the right amount of detail to let a new reader know what has happened and yet not too much to bore a previous reader. However, I would recommend you read 'Tracy's Hot Mail' and 'Tracy's Celebrity Hot Mail' as if you loved this book your guaranteed to love them ones too!!



If your feeling down or could just do with a good laugh you NEED Tracy and her family in your life's!! Grab you copy today!! AN ABSOLUTE must read!!!



A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to TA Belshaw on what promises to be yet another massive best seller!!! One of the most hilarious book I have read this year! This is why you are on my favourite author list TA Belshaw and here's to your next explosive and hilarious success which I beg you to bring out soon, I just NEED to know what Tracy does next!! Here's to your next guaranteed success 🥂!!


Overall a fast paced, hilarious and cheeky laugh a minute book that will have tears streaming down your face!!



Genres covered in this book include Humour, Women's Writers & Fiction Modern Fiction, Satire, Women's Contemporary Fiction, Humourous Fiction, Women's Humorous Fiction and Satire Fiction amongst others.



178 pages.



This book is just £1.99 to purchase on kindle, free on kindle unlimited and £7.99 for paperback via Amazon at time of review which I think is an absolute bargain for this book!!!





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Author Bio


T A Belshaw is from Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. He writes for both children and adults. He is the author of the well received, noir novella, Out of Control The humorous, Tracy's Hot Mail, Tracy's Celebrity Hot Mail, What Tracy Did Next and Tracy's Twenties Hot Mail. He is also the author of the Dual Timeline Family Saga, Unspoken, The Legacy and The Reckoning and Unspoken Christmas Novel, Hopes and Fears.


His short stories have been published in various anthologies including 100 Stories for Haiti, 50 Stories for Pakistan, Another Haircut, Shambelurkling and Other Stories, Deck The Halls, 100 Stories for Queensland and The Cafe Lit anthology 2011, 2012 and 2013. He also has two pieces in Shambelurklers Return. 2014


Trevor is also the author of 15 children's books written under the name of Trevor Forest. The last of them, Magic Molly The Curse of Cranberry Cottage was released in August 2015


His children's poem, Clicking Gran, was long listed for the Plough prize (children's section) in 2009 and his short poem, My Mistake, was rated Highly Commended and published in an anthology of the best entries in the Farringdon Poetry Competition.


Trevor's articles have been published in magazines as diverse as Ireland's Own, The Best of British and First Edition.


In 2021 Trevor signed a two-book deal with Spellbound Books Ltd.


His Agatha Christie era, cosy crime murder mystery, Murder at the Mill was published by Spellbound Books on 7th July 2022


The sequel, Death at the Lychgate was also released in September 2022 by SpellBound Books Ltd.


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Trevor is currently working on the third Amy Rowlings novel, The Murder Awards, and a Victorian ghost story, Sad Lisa.




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