Friends, Lovers and Other Indiscretions

<p>It's early 2008 and the credit crunch is starting to bite. Sam and Laura Diamond - and their friends - are circling forty and all feeling a lot less certain about life than when they first met in their twenties. Laura wants to work part-time and have a third child - an appalling prospect for her husband Sam, whose secret ambition is to give up his job as a struggling scriptwriter and have a vasectomy.Life's no more straightforward for wild child turned corporate lawyer Janey Dart. Having finally given up on Patrick, the love of her life, she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and hastily married to a wealthy hedge fund manager who loathes her friends.And Sam's oldest friend, trendy restaurant owner Jonathan Sleet, is about to hit the big time with a TV series and cookbook, but can't control his roving eye. So it's no surprise that back on their organic farm in Suffolk, his once glamorous wife Hannah is finding distractions of her own.Determined to reunite the group, Jonathan brings everyone together for a holiday to celebrate his fortieth birthday. But six friends, two decades of tangled fortunes and an explosive secret from the past make for an unforgettable week.</p>

Friends Lovers and Other Indiscretions

Literature & Fiction

Fiona Neill

Literary

Centry

Random House]

The Haven

Michael Joseph, Ltd.

What the Nanny Saw

It's the summer of 2008. For the past decade, Nick and Bryony Skinner and their four children have ridden high on the economic boom, but their luck is about to run out. Suddenly, the privileged family finds itself at the center of a financial scandal:Their Central London house is besieged by the press, Nick disappears, and Bryony and the children become virtual prisoners in their own home. And Ali, their trusted nanny, watches it all. As the babysitter, she brings a unique insider-outsider perspective to the family, seeing far more than even the family itself is capable of. But when a reporter with a personal connection to the story comes asking her for the inside scoop, will Ali remain loyal to the family who never saw her as anything other than the help? Or will she tell her side?Written with Fiona Neill's delicious humor and addictive style, What the Nanny Saw is a keenly observed, often comical chronicle of the urban wealthy elite, of parents who are often too busy to notice what is going on under their own noses, of children left to their own devices, and of a young nanny thrown into a role she doesn't know how to play. It is a morality tale of our time, a tale of betrayal, the corrosive influence of too much money, and why good people sometimes do bad things.

Penguin??Books

The Good Girl

Penguin Books, Ltd.

<p>A smart, laugh-out-loud debut novel about a deeply flawed but endearing stay-at-home mom, a book for anyone who took Bridget Jones to heart a decade ago-and now has kids. Lucy Sweeney has three sons, a husband on a short fuse, and a tendency toward domestic disaster. It has been years since the dirty laundry pile was less than three feet high, months since she remembered to have sex, and weeks since her toddler started using the trash can as a toilet. Lucy is living in a constant state of emergency, caught between perfectionist Yummy Mummy No. 1 and competitive Alpha Mum, making it hard for her to remember exactly why she exchanged her career and sanity for less than blissful domesticity. When she begins a flirtation with Sexy Domesticated Dad, a father from the school car-pool lane, the string of white lies to cover up the trail of chaos and illicit desire starts to unravel and disaster looms. Slummy Mummy: The Secret Life of Lucy Sweeney is a hilarious novel about the dilemmas of modern marriage and motherhood for those who never discovered their inner domestic goddess. Pitch-perfect and satisfyingly smart, it does for the stay-at-home mother what Allison Pearson's blockbuster bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It did for the working mom: It offers a lovable, flawed character who resonates, entertains, and undoubtedly has it worse than you do.</p>

Slummy Mummy

Romance

Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Il y a les mères exemplaires, toujours ponctuelles, pomponnées, et souriantes, celles qui préparent des gâteaux pour la kermesse et s'occupent des costumes du spectacle de fin d'année. Et puis il y a les autres : celles qui claquent la porte en laissant les clés à l'intérieur, et qui oublient systématiquement le goûter de leurs enfants... Lucy est clairement de celles-là ! Jusqu'à présent, malgré quelques loupés, elle s'était plutôt bien débrouillée avec sa petite famille. Mais les choses se compliquent quand elle commence à lorgner sur un parent d'élève, rencontré à la sortie des classes... Mauvaise idée, Calamity Lucy. Très mauvaise idée ! Le quotidien effrayant de drôlerie de Lucy débarque dans La Vie secrète d'une mère indigne. Anna Wintour a trouvé le livre hilarant, comme nous. Madame Figaro Hilarant... Un phénomène littéraire dans la veine du Journal de Bridget Jones. " Anna Wintour Vogue

La vie secrète d'une mère indigne (French Edition)

Betty Peltier Weber (Traduction)

Genre Fiction

French and European Publications Inc

Het geheime leven van een ploetermoeder

A.W. Bruna Uitgevers

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