MADELEINE WICKHAM

Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover - and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her. Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with - motherhood. Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes - until a ghost from her past turns up, and almost ruins her life. A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys ...

A fine chronicler of life's small and large catastrophes, Wickham (A Desirable Residence, 1997, etc.) delivers a workmanlike tale of separated parents who are manipulated by an ambitious young lawyer. When divorce-bound British suburbanites Louise and Barnaby Kember, temporarily reunited at a neighbor's pool party, witness a diving accident that puts their youngest daughter in the hospital, Louise's soigne new suitor, the attorney Cassian Brown, persuades them to sue. As it turns out, the politically and socially ambitious Cassian is more interested in winning a case that will bring him a connection to Louise's father, the famous Lord Page, than he is in Louise or her child. A subplot about a brilliant young piano student and a somewhat older man in the Kembers' village brings humor and a melancholy revelation at the end. If the novel drags in the middle, it's only because we can't help but wonder why it takes Louise so long to come to her senses and blast smarmy Cassian out of her life.

Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house. Here they are, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then it seems Marcus Witherstone will solve all their problems. He knows the perfect tenants from London who will rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything is going to be OK. Or is it? As Marcus starts to become involved with Liz, while her teenage daughter develops a passion for the lodgers, it seems that some deceptions are too close to home...

At the age of eighteen, in that first golden Oxford summer, Milly was up for anything. Rupert and his American lover Allan were all part of her new, exciting life, and when Rupert suggested to her that she and Allan should get married, just so that Allan could stay in the country, Milly didn't hesitate, and to make it seem real she dressed up in cheap wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs. Ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Engaged to Simon - who is wealthy, serious, and believes her to be perfect - she is facing the biggest and most elaborate wedding imaginable. Her mother has it planned to the finest detail, from the massive marquee to the sculpted ice swans filled with oysters. Her dreadful secret is locked away so securely she has almost persuaded herself that it doesn't exist - until, with only four days to go, her past catches up with her. Suddenly, her carefully constructed world is about to crash in ruins around her. How can she tell Simon she's already married? How can she tell her mother? But as the crisis develops, more secrets are revealed than Milly could possibly have realised...

At the age of eighteen, in that first golden Oxford summer, Milly was up for anything. Rupert and his American lover, Allan, were an important part of her new, exciting life, so when Rupert suggested to her that she and Allan should get married to keep Allan in the country, Milly didn''t hesitate. Ten years later, Milly is a very different person and engaged to Simon--who is wealthy, serious, and believes her to be perfect. Milly''s secret history is locked away so securely she has almost persuaded herself that it doesn''t exist--until, only four days before her elaborate wedding. To have and to hold takes on a whole new meaning when one bride''s past catches up with her and bring the present crashing down. With her trademark style of keen insight, and razor sharp wit, Madeleine Wickham introduces her fanatical fan-base, plus a host of new readers to a fresh and irresistible heroine in The Wedding Girl.

Roxanne, Maggie y Candice son tres amigas que una vez al mes se reúnen para tomar una copa y contárselo todo. Las tres atraviesan momentos difíciles en sus vidas: Roxanne espera que su amante deje a su mujer por ella; Maggie esta muerta de miedo por su proxima maternidad y a Candice no le queda mas remedio que enfrentarse a su pasado. Un inesperado encuentro en el bar en el que suelen reunirse, da un vuelco a sus vidas. Ha llegado el momento de acabar con los secretos que las tres guardaban.

No hace falta ser un lince para darse cuenta de que Lara Lington no atraviesa un buen momento: su novio le ha dado esquinazo, su mejor amiga se ha largado a Goa y la empresa de cazatalentos que ha montado con ella se va al garete. Ya es hora de que algo le salga bien. Pues no. En plena tormenta existencial, aparece nada menos que el fantasma de su tia abuela Sadie, recientemente fallecida a la edad de 105 años. Con el aspecto y la marcha de una joven de los años veinte, Sadie la apremia para que recupere un misterioso collar desaparecido en extrañas circunstancias, sin el cual nunca podra disfrutar en paz de su eterno descanso. Y aunque Lara intenta tomarselo con calma, la impulsiva Sadie la empujara a traves de un alucinante y laberintico enredo en el que se veran envueltos personajes como su repelente prima Diamante, un estirado ejecutivo norteamericano y hasta la misma policia, que se pondra a husmear ante la sospecha de un improbable asesinato. Asi, a lo largo de este hilarante laberinto, Lara acabara convencida de que, si cuentas con la ayuda de un fantasma, al final las cosas siempre se arreglan.Una chica años veinte es una de las novelas mas originales de SophieKinsella, que con su desternillante humor se ha convertido en la autora mas vendida del genero en el Reino Unido, Estados Unidos, Italia y Francia.

Becky Brandon, la compradora compulsiva más famosa del mundo, creía que la maternidad sería pan comido, y tener una hija-¡una compañera de shopping para toda la vida!-, un sueño hecho realidad. Pero todo es mas peliagudo de lo que esperaba...A la tierna edad de dos años, Minnie, la hija de Becky Brandon, tiene una idea propia del placer de ir de tiendas. Para empezar, su palabra favorita es mio y demuestra una notable habilidad para sembrar el caos en cualquier sitio, especialmente en los grandes almacenes mas selectos.Por si fuera poco, la crisis mundial obliga a la gente a recortar gastos, algo que afecta directamente a los clientes de Becky. Ademas, la familia sigue viviendo en casa de los padres de ella, circunstancia que la joven desea cambiar a cualquier precio.Pero, a pesar de los contratiempos, la infatigable Becky decide animar a todo el mundo organizando una espectacular fiesta sorpresa de cumpleaños para Luke. Y es entonces cuando las cosas se complican de verdad...La critica ha dicho...Casi lloro de risa.Daily MailComiquisima, una vez mas.OKAguda y muy divertida.Cosmopolitan

La nueva novela de la autora de Loca por las compras. Dos familias van de vacaciones al chalet de lujo que un amigo común les ha cedido... ¡por partida doble!. Así comienza una agitada semana compartida en la que el ambiente se caldeará rápidamente. Pero también existe una historia secreta entre las familias… y a medida que se crispan los ánimos, empieza a renacer una antigua pasión…