Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life

Literature & Fiction

Manby, Chrissie

Contemporary

Hodder&Stoughton

Getting Personal

Seven Sunny Days

There's only one thing worse than being jilted on the day of your wedding - being ditched a week before you have to be your friend's chief bridesmaid. If you are the jilted bride, at least you don't have to go through with the ceremony. As the recently dumped bridesmaid, you don't have the luxury of locking yourself in your bedroom and sobbing your heart out. Lizzie Jordan, drama school graduate, is waiting for her great break and in the meantime is happily settled with her boyfriend Richard - until she hears those fateful words, "We have to talk". There is only one thing to do: escape to Hollywood and success. But running away from Richard has its own hazards.

Running Away From Richard

Hodder Paperbacks

Five years after leaving university, Lizzie Jordan considers herself one of life's failures. Unlike her highflying friends, Lizzie works as a lowly typist, shares a grotty flat and 'makes do' with her accountant boyfriend. She's never really been able to get over Brian, the handsome American student she dated at university, who is now a hugely successful Wall Street banker. Lizzie still corresponds with Brian by email. But the life she describes to him, with its extravagant parties and million-pound business deals, bears little relation to reality. Lizzie is overjoyed when Brian announces he's coming to stay. But how can she conceal from him the fact that the glamorous lifestyle she's been describing to him all these years is based on a tissue of lies Ever resourceful, Lizzie comes up with a cunning plan. But the best-laid plans have a habit of going horribly wrong.

'Her witty take on life and love hits the mark once again' - Buzz'Manby will have you in fits once again' - OK!Why is it that your best friend always seems to end up with men who treat her badly Why is that your best male friend seems intent on dating the kind of girl who thinks that Nietzche is an STD Why is it that your own little black book looks more and more like the non-celeb client list of the Priory Why can't any of you find someone quite rightRuby, Martin and Lou are three old friends who have spent too much time talking about the ones that got away. Facing another summer without love, they decide to approach the dating dilemma in the way they approached finding flatmates. They're going to place personal ads. For one another.

2006 Hodder Stoddard hardcover, 2nd printing, British Import. Chris Manby (Ready or Not?). Thrilled isn't the word for how Lindsey Parker feels when her widowed father announces his plans to marry his personal trainer, Karen. The devoted daddy's girl has already scared off three former fiancŽes, and the new one's got to go too-if for no other reason than her appalling taste in bridesmaids' gowns. Lindsey's driven to do something pretty drastic, and nearly manages to kill Karen. Fortunately, while her botched attempt at homicide fails, it does succeed in driving Karen away-along with her hideous velour tracksuits. The trouble is, Dad is genuinely crushed. Now, with a change of heart, Lindsey's on the road to something close to redemption. - Amazon

The Matchbreaker

Marrying for Money

When the glamorous Grosvenor sisters arrive in the exclusive Hamptons beach town of Little Elbow, they can't help but cause a stir. Gorgeous Grace and Charming Charity are soon hot favourites on everybody's guest-list. Except that of their neighbour, Marcella Hunter. Heiress Marcella doesn't want the competition and when Grace starts dating Marcella's 'Plan B' man - dull but extraordinarily rich Choate Fitzgerald - the gloves are off. Marcella determines to find out where the sisters really came from. And exactly how they can afford to rent a six-bedroom beach house in this millionaires' playground. In the process, however, it's discovered that quite a few of the people spending that summer in Little Elbow are not exactly what they seem ...

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Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life

Getting Personal

Seven Sunny Days

Running Away From Richard

Lizzie Jordan's Secret Life

Getting Personal

The Matchbreaker

Marrying for Money

Marrying for Money

Marrying for Money