Madeleine Wickham Orden de los libros (cronológico)

After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have all the trimmings of a happy life and marriage. However, a trip to the doctor projects they will live another 68 years together and panic sets in. They never expected "until death do us part" to mean seven decades. In the name of marriage survival, they quickly concoct a plan to keep their relationship fresh and exciting. But in their pursuit to execute Project Surprise Me, mishaps arise and secrets are uncovered that start to threaten the very foundation of their unshakable bond. When a scandal from the past is revealed that question some important untold truths, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other after all.

A weekend tennis party becomes study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social, and interest levels as together they encounter two days of anger, shock, revelations, and romance.

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?

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.

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...

Realtor Marcus Witherstone knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent Liz and Jonathan Chambers old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost-famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy passion for the tenants.

La quarantaine resplendissante, Fleur Daxeny s'est fait une spécialité de séduire de riches veufs. Sa technique ? Repérage des victimes dans la rubrique nécrologique du Times et première approche le jour même de l'enterrement de l'épouse... Le charme et l'aplomb extraordinaire de la jeune femme font alors le reste... Ainsi, lorsque Fleur jette son dévolu sur l'austère Richard Favour, elle ne doute pas d'arriver très vite à ses fins. Mais elle a pourtant un rival de poids dans la course aux millions, car, si Richard Favour a perdu sa femme, il n'a pas perdu son encombrante famille... Au sein de cette respectable bourgeoisie, les arnaqueurs - à l'argent comme aux sentiments - ne sont pas forcément ceux qu'on croit...

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.