New Releases by Sophie Kinsella

Becky Bloomwood, toujours aussi folle de fringues, ne s''est guère assagie, question finances. Mais à quoi bon être la journaliste financière la plus populaire d''Angleterre si l''on n''en profite pas un peu ? Enfin ! Sur le plan amoureux, elle file le parfait amour avec le séduisant Luke, son fiancé. Sauf qu''il travaille du matin au soir pour monter sa nouvelle agence de communication à... New York. Le rêve ! Aux anges, Becky s''envole avec lui vers ce paradis du shopping où elle se grise à l''envi de soldes, de marques et de boutiques... L''ivresse tourne à la gueule de bois quand Luke découvre, un beau matin, un article fielleux et un cliché de Becky en pleine action sur la Cinquième avenue. Autant dire adieu à tous leurs grands projets. Mais Becky ne tarde pas à soupçonner un ignoble complot...

L''accro du shopping fait son grand retour, flanquée de la pétulante Minnie, deux ans seulement et déjà un caractère bien trempé. Telle mère, telle fille ? Les aventures hilarantes et émouvantes d''un irrésistible duo pour le sixième volet d''une série-culte. La maternité, Becky la voyait comme dans les magazines : elle en Fashion Mummy, courant les boutiques avec son bébé ultralooké, sage comme une image. Dans la réalité, Minnie est une vraie tornade capable de dévaster un magasin entier si on lui refuse quoi que ce soit. Mini-accro, certes, mais surtout aux caprices ! Dur dur pour la pauvre Becky. Un malheur n''arrivant jamais seul, Luke embauche une nounou un peu trop parfaite, la maison de leurs rêves leur passe sous le nez et la crise financière freine dangereusement toute velléité de shopping. Heureusement, quand la situation semble désespérée, notre fashionista préférée a toujours plus d''un tour dans ses sacs...

Fleur is beautiful, unscrupulous, and has a large wardrobe of black designer suits. With the help of The Times announcements page she gatecrashes the funerals and memorial services of the wealthy, preying on rich, vulnerable men. She charms her way into their lives and onto their platinum credit cards, takes what she can, and then moves swiftly on. When Richard, a dull but wealthy businessman, meets Fleur at his wife''s memorial service, he''s bowled over. Gradually Fleur works her spell on Richard''s family - transforming their lives while she moves in on their wealth. But she finds herself lingering longer than she meant to ...

At eighteen, Milly was up for anything. So when a friend asked her to marry him just so that he could stay in England, she didn''t hesitate. To make it seem real she dressed up in wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs. Now, ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Engaged to Simon - who is good-looking, wealthy and adores her - she is about to have the biggest and most elaborate wedding imaginable, all masterminded by her mother. Nobody knows about her first marriage, so it''s almost as though it never happened - isn''t it? But with only four days to go, it looks as though Milly''s past is going to catch up with her. Can she sort things out before her fairytale wedding collapses around her? How can she tell Simon? And worse still, how can she tell her mother ...?

È un''inguaribile ottimista, carina, determinata. Segni particolari: la passione per lo shopping. Tra negozi e alberghi alla moda, colloqui di lavoro e pranzi, proseguono le irresistibili avventure di Becky Bloomwood.

Becky è una giornalista che dalle colonne di un prestigioso giornale londinese consiglia risparmio e investimenti sicuri. È carina, piena di inventiva, determinata. E ha una irrefrenabile passione: lo shopping. Irrefrenabile al punto di diventare una sorta di malattia...

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 their friendship...

Udvider rejser din horisont ... eller bare gælden på kassekreditten? Rebecca Bloomwoods liv er perfekt. Hun giver gode råd om økonomi på et program på morgen-tv, hendes bankrådgiver respekterer hende, og når det drejer sig om at shoppe, er hendes nye motto: Du skal kun købe det, du har brug for! Og hun overholder det (næsten). Sidst men ikke mindst har hun fået tilbudt et job i New York. New York! Museum of Modern Art! Guggenheim! Metropolitan Operaen! Rebecca vil virkelig gerne se det hele. Helt ærligt! Det virker bare lidt dumt ikke at gå et par andre steder hen først. Saks for eksempel. Og Bloomingdale og Barneys. Og de fantastiske steder med lagersalg, hvor man kan købe en Prada-kjole for 10 dollars. Eller er det 100? Rebecca er alt for lykkelig til at tage sig af den slags småting. Bogen er nr. 2 i Shopaholic-serien Den engelske forfatter Madeleine Sophie Wickham (f. 1969) er bedst kendt for "Shopaholic"-serien skrevet under pseudonymet Sophie Kinsella. De første to romaner i serien, "En shopaholics hemmelige drømmeverden" og "En shopaholic i New York", er blevet filmatiseret under navnet "Confessions of a Shopaholic" med Isla Fisher i hovedrollen. Madeleine Sophie Wickham har også skrevet bøger under sit rigtige navn.

Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie—a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance—mysteriously appears, she has one request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from and about each other. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, Twenties Girl is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.

When the ghost of Lara''s great-aunt Sadie--a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance--mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie''s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they''re after?

Awakening in the hospital after a car crash believing that she is a single, twenty-five-year-old sales associate, Lexi discovers that she has lost three years in her life and she is married to a handsome millionaire, but her perfect new life soon begins to go awry.

Becky''s life is perfect, with a job at London''s biggest new store, house-hunting with husband Luke, and a baby on the way, until she discovers that her new celebrity obstetrician is Luke''s glamorous ex-girlfriend.

Returning to London after her ten-month honeymoon, Becky Bloomwood Brandon finds herself depressed by a lack of money, a search for a job, and her best friend Suze''s new best friend, until she discovers that she has a long lost sister--who just happens to hate shopping. Reprint.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes a novel with the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism as her beloved Shopaholic series. “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger. . . . But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse. Or could they? Praise for Can You Keep a Secret? “Venturing beyond Saks and Barney’s, the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. . . . Kinsella’s down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter.”—Publishers Weekly “If laughing out loud in public places is your bag, be sure to pick up [Can You Keep a Secret?]. Heroine Emma Corrigan is going to be your new best friend.”—Boston Herald “Kinsella’s timing is so perfect, her instincts so spot-on, that it’s easy to . . . devour the book like the guilty pleasure it is.”—Miami Herald “Chick lit at its lightest and breeziest . . . filled with fabulous clothes, stalwart friends, and snotty enemies waiting to be taken down a peg.”—Orlando Sentinel “[Kinsella’s] dialogue is sharp, even her minor characters are well drawn, and her parody of the marketing world is very funny.”—Washington Post Book World “[A] comedic frenzy of ill-fated events . . . punchy . . . fast-moving.”—Rocky Mountain News

Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting goes into utter meltdown and walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, Samantha soon finds herself hired as a housekeeper.

Becky buys so much during her honeymoon that Luke is furious about the bills and puts her on a budget but the discovery of a long-lost sister cheers her up until she learns that her sister hates shopping.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes “a hilarious tale . . . hijinks worthy of classic I Love Lucy episodes . . . too good to pass up.” (USA Today) “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. The only trouble is, she can’t actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. And lately Becky’s been chased by dismal letters from the bank—letters with large red sums she can’t bear to read. She tries cutting back. But none of her efforts succeeds. Her only consolation is to buy herself something . . . just a little something. Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever. Praise for Sophie Kinsella and Confessions of a Shopaholic “Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. . . . You won’t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist.”—People “If a crème brûlée could be transmogrified into a book, it would be Confessions of a Shopaholic.”—The Star-Ledger “A have-your-cake-and-eat-it romp, done with brio and not a syllable of moralizing. . . . Kinsella has a light touch and puckish humor.”—Kirkus Reviews

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life . . . “Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Life has been good to Becky Bloomwood: She’s become the top personal shopper at Barneys and she’s living happily with her boyfriend, Luke, in Manhattan’s West Village. But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare? Not that she’s been thinking about marriage (or diamonds) or anything. Then Luke proposes! Problem is, two other people are planning her wedding: Becky’s overjoyed mother—who has been waiting forever to host a backyard wedding, with the bride resplendent in Mum’s frilly old gown; and her high-society soon-to-be mother-in-law—who insists on a glamorous, all-expenses-paid affair at the Plaza. Both weddings, on separate continents, on the same day . . . and Becky can’t seem to turn down either one. Can everyone’s favorite shopaholic tie the knot before everything unravels? Praise for Sophie Kinsella and Shopaholic Ties the Knot “Kinsella has a genuine gift for comic writing.”—The Boston Globe “Witty and hilarious.”—Cosmopolitan (U.K.) “Another entertaining entry in Kinsella’s unabashedly fluffy Shopaholic series . . . chock-full of the charming antics and asides that made the first two installments hilarious best-sellers.”—Booklist “Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. . . . You won’t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist.”—People

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life . . . “[Sophie] Kinsella’s Bloomwood is plucky and funny. . . . You won’t have to shop around to find a more winning protagonist.”—People With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky Bloomwood’s biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. That is, until Luke announces he’s moving to New York for business—and he asks Becky to go with him! Before you can say “Prada sample sale,” Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury department stores. Surely it’s only a matter of time until Becky becomes an American celebrity. She and Luke will be the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky’s bills an ocean away in London. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line. Becky may have taken Manhattan—but will she have to return it? Praise for Sophie Kinsella and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan “A laugh-a-minute read.”—Glamour (U.K.) “Faster than a swiping Visa, more powerful than a two-for-one coupon, able to buy complete wardrobes in a single sprint through the mall—it’s Shopaholic!”—The Washington Post “Kinsella has a genuine gift for comic writing.”—The Boston Globe