Annie Sanders

In this poignant and witty debut, a bohemian and a Gucci-clad socialite form an unlikely friendship after leaving the city.

Goodbye, Jimmy Choo

To a casual observer, Londoner Alex Hill is every inch the calm and collected executive of a global sportswear company. In reality, she's constantly frantic, with barely enough time to take out the trash. When her demanding mother, a 1960s style icon, has a bad fall and has to move in with her indefinitely, Alex realizes she needs someone more committed than a maid-what she needs is a wife. An ad in the local paper soon produces a young woman who seems both enthusiastic and capable. But something odd is definitely happening behind the scenes of Alex's new, perfectly ordered existence. Someone distinctly male is charming her mother as well as doing all the ironing. He's no one Alex would ordinarily ever notice, never mind date. But now she can't help wondering if her new "wife" could perhaps have husband potential...

Busy Woman Seeks Wife

After twenty years of comfortable marriage, and with the kids finally off her hands, Sarah Lewis realises she has filled the washing machine once too often. Surely there must be more to life than this? What she wants is an adventure - a wild, unpredictable adventure - but her husband, good old reliable David, is very happy with the status quo. Besides, he's got his old car to tinker with, when he eventually gets round to it. What Sarah needs is a gap year for grown-ups - and she wants to do it alone. Confident the grass must be greener elsewhere, she heads for France, leaving behind a devastated and resentful David, faced with an empty house and a freezer full of meals-for-one. But is life really better on the other side of the fence? With a gorgeous French man demanding her company and a renewed joie de vivre, Sarah certainly seems to think so. But then a catastrophe threatens to de-rail much more than Sarah's little adventure. Pretty soon, she begins to wonder whether gap years are for grown-ups after all...

The Gap Year for Grown-ups

Three women rent a holiday house in Cornwall for the summer. Each brings with her children, baggage (in every sense) and expectations... Imogen, who organised the holiday, is frighteningly capable and a bit of a control freak. With three children who are at the centre of her world, she's determined that this holiday will be perfect. But is Imogen's tidy life quite as happy as it seems? Sophie is Imogen's oldest friend, dating back to the days when they would chat long after lights out at their Home Counties boarding school. Sophie knows she should be feeding her offspring organic couscous, but they love McDonald's apple pies too much - and where's the harm in that? But is there more to Sophie than dogged loyalty to her rather overbearing old mate? And then there's Jo, an acquaintance of Sophie's roped in at the last minute when the first choice of housemate pulled out. An east London GP and single mother, and very easy-going with her son, she appears to be the polar opposite to Imogen. A group holiday seemed such a good idea back in January...

Warnings Of Gales

Lucy Streeter, a single mother and fashion designer, has never been much of a risk-taker. But when an enigmatic fortune teller informs Lucy that her life is coming to an end, she races against the clock to squeeze a lifetime of fulfillment into just four days.

Famous Last Words

Lucy spends her days beavering away at her sewing machine, making divine, flamboyant clothes that express all the passion and flairthat she cannot, and at night she sits alone with her latest creations, fretting over her struggling business.

Two women become unexpected friends when they (unwillingly) move to the countryside, leaving London and city life behind. The results are quite something. . . Izzie and Maddy would never normally have met - one bohemian and free thinking, the other materialistic and designer obsessed - weren't it for their respective husband's careers. Dumped in the countryside, both feeling like a fish out of water, their world's collide at an event. Here, they discover a mutually deep appreciation for life in London - and an equally deep hatred for women's lunches. Soon, tragedy strikes, and Maddy has to find a way to make money fast. Together, they launch a company from their kitchen which proves to be more successful than they ever could have imagined. But when the media spotlight turns on them, the pair are forced to walk away from all they hold dear and embrace a lifestyle they hate. The question is - how far will they be willing to go?

Ihr letzter Tag. Und was danach geschah. Lucy kann nicht glauben, was ihr der Wahrsager prophezeit: Sie hat nur noch kurze Zeit zu leben? So ein Quatsch! Doch dann kommt sie ins Grübeln. Was, wenn es morgen tatsächlich vorbei wäre? Ist sie wirklich mit sich im Reinen? Lucy beschließt, in ihrem Leben aufzuräumen und fortan jedermann ganz offen die Meinung zu sagen. Und sie will all die verrückten Dinge tun, für die sie bisher zu brav war. Oder zu schüchtern: Dem attraktiven Richard wird sie nach all den Jahren endlich reinen Wein einschenken! Doch der vermeintliche Todestag verstreicht. Und Lucy hat plötzlich jede Menge Probleme. Die Liebeserklärung auf Richards Anrufbeantworter ist nur eins davon ... «Die Bücher von Annie Sanders bieten perfekte Sofalektüre – Eifersucht, Liebeskummer und viel Humor. Alles drin!» (Sun)

Jetzt kann ich's dir ja sagen

Thank goodness Christmas comes just once a year...! 'A heart-warming and sparkly comedy - ideal for the time of year' WOMAN'S OWN 'A funny festive read' HEAT 'A book you'll enjoy long after the last Christmas cracker has been pulled' CHOICE Meet two women with two totally different approaches to the festive season. Beth: it's only September, and already she has performance anxiety. Not surprising when she has agreed to lay on the annual Christmas Eve village bash - the piece de resistance of her husband's former wife - not to mention having to host Christmas for his difficult offspring. New to this frenzied build-up to the festivities, Beth begins to lose sight of what it all means. To her the Christmas lights are looking more like the headlamps of an oncoming train. Carol: glamorous magazine editor, who put her aspirational Christmas issue to bed sometime in July and is so involved in finding a scoop to save her ailing magazine that she fails to notice the impending festive rush. Panicked and wracked with guilt, she is determined to make it a picture-perfect time for her little boy and, opting for convenience, books a lovely-sounding cottage in a quaint village. Even the best-laid plans have a habit of unravelling - and no plan at all is a recipe for disaster. So when these two Christmases collide, it looks like it's going to be anything but goodwill towards men...

The perfect festive treat!

The Xmas Factor

It's not the promises we make that count, it's the ones we keep... Alice is living the life she always dreamed of: a travel guide writer, her life is one of carefree adventure, with no ties, no constraints and no worries. Virginia finally has everything she ever wanted. The loving husband, the beautiful daughter and the successful career. Life hasn't always been easy, but she knows that her family can weather any storm. They have been best friends since university - so much so that Virginia trusts Alice with all she holds dearest. Then tragedy strikes, and Alice finds she must honour a rash promise she made to her friend. It's then she discovers that it can be the people you think you know best who hold the most closely guarded secrets...

Instructions for Bringing Up Scarlett

Seven charming women's fiction novels, packed with romance, humour and great characters. Including: GOODBYE, JIMMY CHOO; WARNINGS OF GALES; BUSY WOMAN SEEKS WIFE; THE GAP YEAR FOR GROWN-UPS; GETTING MAD, GETTING EVEN; FAMOUS LAST WORDS; INSTRUCTIONS FOR BRINGING UP SCARLETT.

The Annie Sanders Collection

From the bestselling authors of GOODBYE, JIMMY CHOO comes a hilarious novel about what happens when a man gets his leg over - and a woman gets revenge... Georgie and Flick are a girl's best friend - and secret weapon. Their agency, Domestic Angels, provides invaluable help to armies of harassed women. After years of hard work, Georgie and Flick have built a small but grateful clientele - doing everything from booking the plumber to replacing dead hamsters. Then one evening, they are visited by a pale, nervous-looking woman who makes the strangest request yet. Her husband has combined a takeover with a leg-over. Would Georgie and Flick help her get her own back? It isn't long before word gets out. Inundated with requests from angry wives, Georgie and Flick begin to wonder whether all these men are really as black as they are painted. Meanwhile, the disgruntled husband of a client has rumbled them. It may be that they aren't the only masters of revenge after all...

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