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Madeleine Wickham

    This author is celebrated for her literary exploration of the intricate relationship between material desires and personal happiness. Her works keenly capture the modern obsession with shopping and its impact on individuals, often with a humorous touch. Through her characters, the author delves into themes of financial irresponsibility and the quest for life balance. Her distinctive style blends sharp social commentary with accessible, engaging narratives.

    Невеста
    Sleeping arrangements
    The gatecrasher
    The Gatecrasher
    Cocktails for Three
    The Wedding Girl
    • 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.

      Surprise Me2018
      3.5
    • Rebecca Bloomwood Has The Dream Job. She S A Personal Shopper, So Is Able To Spend Other People S Money All Day Instead Of Her Own. And She Gets Paid For Doing It. The Perfect Job, The Perfect Man - Gorgeous Luke Brandon And Now & The Perfect Wedding.Yes, Luke Has Proposed And Wedding Bells Are In Sight. No Excuses Are Needed To Start The Shopping Trip Of All Time. And Becky S Parents Are Just Assuming That The Wedding Will Be At Home A Marquee In The Garden And Becky In Her Mum S Wedding Dress, Which She S Been Saving Specially For The Occasion. But Luke S Mother Has Very Different Ideas A Huge Affair In New York In A Forest Glade Setting Or Perhaps A Venetian Ball, Or A Fin De Siecle Extravagance?Now Becky S Getting Confused. She Doesn T Want To Say No To Anyone. The Plans Are Going Ahead, And Soon It Will Be Too Late To Turn Back From Either Wedding&

      Shopaholic ties the knot2014
      3.8
    • Remember me?

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Trixie wakes in a hospital room after a car accident thinking that it is 2004 and that she is a woman of 25 years!

      Remember me?2013
      3.6
    • The tennis party

      • 239 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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.

      The tennis party2013
      2.9
    • 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?

      Wedding Night2013
      3.6
    • Swimming pool Sunday

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      In an English village a girl injures herself in a neighbor's swimming pool and a lawyer convinces the mother to sue. Unaware he is using her to further his career, she does so, starting a string of unforeseen events

      Swimming pool Sunday2011
      3.4
    • De Cocktail Club

      Drie vriendinnen, drie mega-geheimen en een flinke scheut schandaal

      Roxanne, Candice en Maggie zijn sinds jaren onafscheidelijke vriendinnen en 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 (of bijna alles) met veel cocktails, de laatste roddels en slappe lachbuien. Maar achter hun succesvolle pantser verbergen de jonge powervrouwen alle drie een groot geheim. Roxanne heeft een geheime minnaar en hoopt tegen beter weten in dat hij ooit met haar zal trouwen. Maggie denkt dat ze alles aankan, tot het moederschap plotseling op haar pad komt. Candice, altijd eerlijk en behulpzaam, wordt meedogenloos door haar verleden ingehaald. Een toevallige ontmoeting in de cocktailbar zet de levens van Roxanne, Candice en Maggie op scherp. Zullen zij elkaar door dik en dun blijven steunen?

      De Cocktail Club2010
    • A Desirable Residence

      • 332 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house.Here they are, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then it seems Marcus Witherstone will solve all their problems. He knows the perfect tenants from London who will rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything is going to be OK. Or is it? As Marcus starts to become involved with Liz, while her teenage daughter develops a passion for the lodgers, it seems that some deceptions are too close to home... Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella- "I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail "Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan "Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it" Jojo Moyes "A superb tale. Five stars!" Heat

      A Desirable Residence2010
      3.0
    • Een voormalig financieel journaliste, nu 'personal shopper' voor een warenhuis, is zwanger en bereidt zich voor op de perfecte bevalling.

      Shopaholic & Baby2009
      3.8
    • You do a friend a favour - and then, years later, the past catches up with you...

      The Wedding Girl2008
      3.5
    • Невеста

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Тем незабываемым оксфордским летом восемнадцатилетняя Милли была готова на любую авантюру. С появлением Руперта и его возлюбленного, американца Аллана, у Милли началась новая, увлекательная жизнь, и когда Руперт предложил ей брак с Алланом, чтобы тот мог легально остаться в Британии, Милли не колеблясь сказала "да". Чтобы все выглядело по-настоящему, она нарядилась в дешевое свадебное платье и с удовольствием позировала перед туристами, щелкавшими фотоаппаратами. Прошло десять лет. Милли очень изменилась. Теперь она помолвлена с Саймоном, серьезным молодым человеком из богатой семьи, который считает свою невесту идеалом. Однако всего за четыре дня до торжества прошлое неожиданно возвращается к Милли. Мир, который она так тщательно выстраивала, вот-вот разлетится вдребезги. Как признаться Саймону о том, что она уже замужем? Тучи сгущаются, и наружу выплывает гораздо больше секретов, чем предполагала Милли…

      Невеста2007
      4.0
    • Shopaholic & sister

      • 329 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Rebecca Bloomwood is now happily married to Luke Brandon, and all her problems seem to be at an end. But suddenly into her life steps ... a sister, of whose existence Becky had hitherto been completely unaware. Becky is only too anxious to welcome her into the bosom of the family. But there is only one snag - she Hates shopping. She is the antithesis of the shopaholic. It all makes for some very difficult family relationships ...

      Shopaholic & sister2007
      3.9
    • The Gatecrasher

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      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.

      The Gatecrasher2004
      3.1
    • Sleeping arrangements

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      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...

      Sleeping arrangements2002
      3.3
    • Shopaholic abroad

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      For Rebecca life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, her bank manager is being nice to her, and the icing on the brioche is that she has been offered work in New York. The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, and she does intend to visit them all, but first Saks, then Bloomingdales.

      Shopaholic abroad2002
      3.8
    • 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...

      Cocktails for Three2000
      3.5
    • The gatecrasher

      • 313 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Madeleine Wickham is Sophie Kinsella, and The Gatecrasher is just as clever, chic, and sassy as her internationally bestselling Shopaholic series!

      The gatecrasher1998
      3.3