Madeleine Wickham Books

Roxanne, Candice en Maggie, sinds jaren dikke vriendinnen, werken alle drie bij een glossy tijdschrift in Londen. Elke maand hebben ze een vaste afspraak om bij te kletsen over alles wat er in hun leven gebeurt, met veel cocktails, de laatste roddels en slappe-lachbuien. Maar achter hun succesvolle pantser verbergen de jonge powervrouwen een groot geheim. Roxanne heeft een geheime minnaar. Maggie denkt dat ze niet geschikt is voor het moederschap. Candice wordt meedogenloos door haar verleden ingehaald. Een toevallige ontmoeting in de cocktailbar zet de levens van de vriendinnen op scherp. Zullen zij elkaar door dik en dun blijven steunen?

Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose, but then his big question involves a trip abroad — not a trip down the aisle. Completely crushed, Lottie reconnects with an old flame, and they decide to take drastic action. No dates, no moving in together, they’ll just get married . . . right now. Her sister, Fliss, thinks Lottie is making a terrible mistake, and will do anything to stop her. But Lottie is determined to say “I do,” for better, or for worse.

If you like Sophie Kinsella, you'll love Cocktails for Three. 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. 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...

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

Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses and her partner is having trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife seems more interested in the granite for the new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it all, he barely has time to see their children. But his old schoolfriend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Both families arrive at the villa and get a shock- Gerard has double-booked. An uneasy week of sharing begins, and tensions soon mount in the soaring heat. But there's also a secret history between the families - and as tempers fray, an old passion begins to resurface...

Four couples come together on the Pimm's-soaked terrace: Patrick and Caroline, who are rich; the Mobyns, who are even richer; Stephen and Anne, who aren't rich at all and don't even have designer clothes; and Valerie and Don, who are just dreadful and really care about winning the tournament. Thus begins two days of tempers, shocks, revelations, the arrival of an uninvited guest, and the realization that the weekend is about anything but tennis.

Vier dagen voor haar huwelijk met de felbegeerde zoon van een miljonair wordt een jonge vrouw geconfronteerd met het schijnhuwelijk dat zij tien jaar eerder sloot met een homoseksuele vriend om hem aan een verblijfsvergunning te helpen.