Pippa Wright

'Have you ever noticed that the modern romantic heroine can be, not to put too fine a point on it, a bit useless?' Lizzy Harrison has everything under control Lizzy Harrison isn't a romantic heroine. Not even close. She doesn't have a cat, owns no more shoes than the average person, and is in no way hopelessly scatty and disorganised. In fact her life is in perfect order, and that's just how she likes it. Okay, so she hasn't met the right man yet, but she really doesn't have the time what with her busy job in PR and her packed schedule of improving activities. Her diary is planned months in advance and she's determined that nothing spontaneous will force its way into her life. ...hasn't she? But when her best friend Lulu questions her need for control, Lizzy starts to wonder if she needs to let go a little. So when she's thrown into the arms of her boss's number one client, notorious comedian (and love-rat) Randy Jones, she reluctantly relaxes her hold on routine. Lizzy Harrison is about to find out that losing control could win her more than she had ever imagined. 'Funny, moving, totally gripping' Harriet Evans

Lizzy Harrison Loses Control

Finding it hard to meet Mr Right? Perhaps you should try looking for Mr Wrong instead... After eleven years of coupled-up domesticity, Rory Carmichael is single for the first time in her adult life. Even she would admit that her ex-boyfriend Martin wasn't the most exciting man in the world – let's face it, his idea of a rocking night was one spent updating his Excel spreadsheets – but Rory could rely on him and, having watched her mother rack up four turbulent marriages, that's what matters. But when she discovers that her supposedly reliable Mr Right is a distinctly unreliable cheater, she's forced to consider the possibility that everything she knows about relationships is wrong. In an effort to reinvigorate both her love life and her lacklustre career at posh magazine Country House, she sets herself a mission to date as many unsuitable men as possible. Toyboys. Sugar daddies. Fauxmosexuals. Maybe the bad boys she's never dated can show her what she's been missing in life. But if Mr Right can turn out to be so wrong, maybe one of her Mr Wrongs will turn out to be just right...

Unsuitable Men

Friendship is like a shark: it has to keep moving forwards to survive. Esther and Laura have been best friends since they were seven, when Esther was chubby and Laura was already perfect. So much has changed since then - school, boyfriends, drink, experimental hair-dye, university, jobs, London, babies - and their friendship has changed just as much, but they are still close, still inextricably linked to one another. So when Esther is told that Laura has gone missing, she leaves everything behind - including her husband and small child - to fly to San Francisco and trace her friend's last movements. All she has is an email from Laura: 'I'm channelling Drew Barrymore, as ever. The Gospel, right?' In trying to understand why Laura has disappeared, and what on earth Drew Barrymore has to do with it, Esther needs to look back. Back at the secrets woven into their friendship and the truths she's avoided facing for so long.

The Gospel According to Drew Barrymore

Witzig, bewegend, schräg – eine wunderbare Ode an die Freundschaft! Esther und Laura sind die besten Freundinnen seit sie sieben Jahre alt sind, und auch Jahre später stehen sie einander noch immer sehr nah. Als Esther erfährt, dass Laura spurlos verschwunden ist, lässt sie alles stehen und liegen und macht sich auf die Suche nach ihrer Freundin. Der einzige Hinweis, den sie hat, ist eine kryptische E-Mail von Laura: »Ich lasse mich von Drew Barrymore leiten – wie immer, du weißt schon.« Um zu verstehen, was passiert ist, und was um Himmels willen Drew Barrymore damit zu tun hat, muss Esther in die Vergangenheit blicken – zurück zu den Geheimnissen, die ihre Freundschaft verbinden ...

Roman

Wenn du aus der Reihe tanzt, tanze ich mit

In love and marriage, practice makes perfectShortlisted for Contemporary Romantic Novel in the Romantic Novelists Associations Book Awards 2014. Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the bright lights of London when she was eighteen, and never looked back. She had it all: the glamorous career, the lovely house, the gorgeous husband. But now she's back: unemployed, separated, and holed up in her dead granny's bungalow. Worse still, she's forced to share the bungalow with Ben, the clueless and domestically challenged fiancé of her bossy sister Prue. Ben is a man in need of simple instruction. And Kate is a woman in need of a project. So she decides to secretly train Ben, her foster husband, as a selfless pre-wedding gift to her sister. But Kate may still have a few lessons of her own to learn...

The Foster Husband

Esther and Laura have been best friends since they were seven, when Esther was chubby and Laura was already perfect. So much has changed since then - school, boyfriends, drink, experimental hair-dye, university, jobs, London, babies - and their friendship has changed just as much, but they are still close, still inextricably linked to one another. So when Esther is told that Laura has gone missing, she leaves everything behind - including her husband and small child - to fly to San Francisco and trace her friend's last movements. All she has is an email from Laura: 'I'm channelling Drew Barrymore, as ever. The Gospel, right?' In trying to understand why Laura has disappeared, and what on earth Drew Barrymore has to do with it, Esther needs to look back. Back at the secrets woven into their friendship and the truths she's avoided facing for so long.

Lizzy heeft geen vriend en ook geen kat. Daar heeft ze helemaal geen tijd voor met haar drukke baan. Volgens haar beste vriendin Lulu moet Lizzy nodig eens uit haar dak. Wanneer ze in de armen van de ruige megaster Randy Jones wordt gedreven, ontwaakt er een vlammetje in Lizzy's hart. Ze moet hem uit de problemen zien te houden maar sex-on-legs Randy blijkt onverbeterlijk.

Lizzy gaat los

Traummänner fallen nicht vom Himmel ... Arbeitslos, getrennt und verzweifelt. Das ist Kate. Ihre Ehe ist am Ende. Ihren tollen TV-Job ist sie auch los. Genau deswegen flüchtet sie aus London in ihr Heimatstädtchen Lyme Regis. Doch dort kommt es noch schlimmer, denn plötzlich muss Kate ihre vier Wände mit Ben teilen, dem völlig idiotischen und faulen Verlobten ihrer Schwester. Ben ist einer, der simple Anweisungen braucht. Kate ist eine, die Herausforderungen sucht. Auch wenn ihre eigene Ehe nicht mehr zu retten ist, ist es vielleicht die ihrer Schwester. Daher fasst sie einen Entschluss: Sie will Ben heimlich zu einem selbstlosen Ehemann erziehen ...

Das Schwagermonster

Wenn sich »der Richtige« als Frosch entpuppt, ist dann »der Falsche« der Prinz? Rory Carmichael ist nach elf Jahren Beziehung – und damit sozusagen zum ersten Mal in ihrem Erwachsenenleben – wieder Single. Und obwohl Martin nicht unbedingt der Prototyp des Traummanns war, ihr Herz ist gebrochen! Rory flüchtet erst einmal zu ihrer Tante, um den Kopf wieder frei zu bekommen. Und wie gut, wenn auch gleich ein Ablenkungsplan parat steht: Triff dich mit so vielen unpassenden Männern wie möglich, schreibe eine Kolumne darüber, und stürze dich völlig haltlos kopfüber ins Chaos ...

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