Madeleine Wickham Libros

Madeleine Wickham, who writes the internationally bestselling Shopaholic series as Sophie Kinsella, has penned an irresistibly dishy and entertaining novel about three savvy young women and the secrets they share over monthly drinks. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man 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 At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner , the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed. In Cocktails for Three , Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.

Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses, her partner Philip has troubles at work, the whole family wants a break. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect.Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife Amanda seems more interested in her new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it, he barely has time for his children. Maybe he'll have a chance to bond with them on holiday. His old friend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain - perfect.Both families arrive at the villa and realise the awful truth - Gerard has double-booked. What no-one else realises is that Chloe and Hugh have a history, and as tensions rise within the two families, old passions resurface. It seems that Gerard's 'accidental' double booking may not be an accident after all...

Fleur is beautiful but lazy and, at forty, spends her life looking for rich men who can provide her and her teenage daughter with a glamorous and effortless existence. A daily trawl through the court pages of The Times provides her with an unusual but fertile search area - the funerals and memorial services of the great and good, where gatecrashers are so much less noticeable than they would be at a wedding or a christening. It is at one of these sad but oddly festive occasions that she meets Richard, dull but well-off, whose mousey wife has died after a lifetime of enjoyable ill-health. Before long Fleur has become an integral part of Richard's life, offending his friends, interfering in his leisure pursuits (golf bores her, so why should he spend so much time on it?) and stirring up his grown-up children to behave badly.

Fleur Daxeny is beautiful, unscrupulous, and has a large wardrobe of black designer suits. With the help of the obituaries, she gatecrashes the funerals and memorial services of the wealthy, preying on rich and newly vulnerable men. Charming her way into their lives, their beds, and their bank accounts, she takes what she can and moves swiftly on

DOS CAMIONES CARGADOS DE «RECUERDOS» DE LA LUNA DE MIEL TODAS LAS TARJETAS DE CRÉDITO FUERA DE SERVICIO Y PARA COMPLETAR EL CUADRO... ¡BECKY TIENE UNA HERMANA! Tras una lujosa luna de miel que ha durado diez meses, Becky Brandon — la compradora compulsiva más famosa del mundo— vuelve a Londres con su flamante marido. Tan pronto pone los pies en casa, empiezan los problemas, pues aparecen ante el portal dos camiones cargados de «recuerdos» que ha comprado a escondidas durante el viaje: mesas de comedor, jirafas de madera gigantes, batas de seda, máscaras… Las facturas no se hacen esperar y, muy pronto, la tarjeta de crédito que Becky esconde en su polvera se convierte en un trozo de plástico inútil. La crisis estalla y Luke le impone un estricto presupuesto, pero las malas noticias nunca vienen solas: Suze, su amiga inseparable, ha encontrado otra amiga más inseparable, y sus padres, precisamente ahora, deciden confesarle un secreto explosivo: Becky tiene una hermana. ¡Vaya sorpresita! La idea de encontrar, a sus veintisiete años, un alma gemela con quien compartir su pasión por los zapatos, las rebajas y las sesiones de manicura abre un panorama prometedor, lleno de interesantes perspectivas, lo cual no impide que, antes de lanzar las campanas al vuelo, Becky tenga que averiguar los gustos y hábitos de consumo de su nueva hermana Jessica.

Las tiendas de tu ciudad se te han quedado pequeñas y tu tarjeta de crédito se muere de aburrimiento. ha llegado la hora de ampliar horizontes: Nueva York te espera con los brazos abiertos Si en Loca por las compras dejábamos a Becky más o menos recuperada de un importante bache económico ahora con la lección bien aprendida se ha propuesto comprar únicamente lo necesario para vivir y parece que poco a poco lo va consiguiendo. Sin embargo de repente un inesperado viaje a Nueva York hace tambalear sus buenos propósitos. Becky aterriza en Manhattan junto a su novio y descubre un mundo lleno de tiendas maravillosas grandes almacenes de superlujo y ventas de muestrario esos fantásticos lugares en los que ofrecen ropa de diseñoo a mitad de precio. ¡Cómo resistir a semejante tentación? Desde luego una opción sería recordar al temible señor Gavin el nuevo director de su banco que carece de la sensibilidad necesaria para comprender las necesidades de Becky y la otra pensar en las maliciosas portadas de los periódicos ingleses que aparentemente se han confabulado para exponer al mundo el eterno problema de liquidez de una inocente chica londinense.

Días soporíferos, noches frustrantes y nada en el horizonte necesitas algo que te levante el ánimo ¡ya! coges el bolso, compruebas la tarjeta de crédito y... ¡a comprar! Si uno acabara de conocer a Rebecca diría que es una chica como muchas otras, activa, alegre y con ganas de marcha. Pero si intentara compartir con ella un placentero e inocente sábado por la tarde, paseando por, digamos, King's Road, constataría de inmediato que Becky, como la llaman sus amigos, está total, absoluta, perdida e irremisiblemente... ¡loca por las compras! Pese a sus denodados esfuerzos por controlar esos devastadores impulsos consumistas, Becky ha sucumbido tantas veces a la tentación que las deudas empiezan a volverse una seria amenaza para sus inmaculados antecedentes penales. Necesitada de una solución urgente y en el punto álgido de su desesperación, Becky ha ideado un plan que, o bien la saca de apuros para siempre, o de lo contrario tendrá que hacerse a la idea de una tranquila vida en una remota y solitaria isla en los Mares del Sur.

When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, Lottie jumps at the chance. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Ben's rushed marriage, and family and friends are determined to intervene. Will Lottie and Ben have a wedding night to remember ... or one to forget?

At the age of eighteen, in that first golden Oxford summer, Milly was up for anything, and that included marrying her American friend Allan, so he could stay in the country with his lover Rupert.

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...