"Venturing beyond Saks and Barney's, the bestselling author of
Confessions of a Shopaholic and
Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. . . . Kinsella's down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter."
--Publishers Weekly "If laughing out loud in public places is your bag, be sure to pick up [
Can You Keep a Secret?]. Heroine Emma Corrigan is going to be your new best friend."
--Boston Herald "Kinsella's timing is so perfect, her instincts so spot-on, that it's easy to . . . devour the book like the guilty pleasure it is."
--Miami Herald "Chick lit at its lightest and breeziest . . . filled with fabulous clothes, stalwart friends, and snotty enemies waiting to be taken down a peg."
--Orlando Sentinel "[Kinsella's] dialogue is sharp, even her minor characters are well drawn, and her parody of the marketing world is very funny."
--Washington Post Book World "[A] comedic frenzy of ill-fated events . . . punchy . . . fast-moving."
--Rocky Mountain News "Kinsella's witty take on mundane office and family life will really make you laugh out loud. . . . Move over, Bridget [Jones]!"
--Evening Chronicle (U.K.) "Hilarious."
--Sun (U.K.) "Kinsella's light touch keeps this very funny look at life and relationships flying along and builds Emma into a genuinely endearing character. Romantic, but refreshingly witty."
--Sunday Mirror (U.K.) "Like a riotous gossip with your best friend--it'll have you laughing, cringing and hopelessly engrossed from the first page."
--Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail "A delightful new novel . . . Kinsella has another irresistible hit on her hands."
--Booklist
With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:
Secrets from her mother:
I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.
Sammy the goldfish in my parents’ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.
Secrets from her boyfriend:
I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.
I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.
From her colleagues:
When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.
Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world:
My G-string is hurting me.
I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.
Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.
But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from
the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse—Until they do.
From the Hardcover edition.