Madeleine Wickham Livres

Roxanne, Maggie et Candice travaillent ensemble dans un grand magazine de mode, ce qui ne les empêche pas d'être amies. D'ailleurs les trois copines ont une tradition : une fois par mois, c'est cocktails et gossips au Manhattan Bar. Aujourd'hui, c'est spécial : on fête le départ en congé maternité de Maggie. Qui fanfaronne mais n'en mène pas large à l'idée de se retrouver à la campagne avec un nouveau-né et sa belle-mère. Et on ne peut pas dire que Roxanne lui soit d'un grand réconfort, obsédée qu'elle est par son mystérieux amant marié. Quant à Candice, très perturbée par une histoire familiale compliquée, elle ne trouve rien de mieux qu'inviter la serveuse à partager leur table. Sans réaliser que cette dernière est loin d'être une inconnue bien intentionnée... Le cocktail club résistera-t-il à la trahison ?

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...

An early bestseller from the fabulous author of the Shopaholic series. Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses and her partner Philip has 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 Amanda 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 for his family. 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.

La quarantaine resplendissante, Fleur Daxeny s'est fait une spécialité de séduire de riches veufs. Sa technique ? Repérage des victimes dans la rubrique nécrologique du Times et première approche le jour même de l'enterrement de l'épouse... Le charme et l'aplomb extraordinaire de la jeune femme font alors le reste... Ainsi, lorsque Fleur jette son dévolu sur l'austère Richard Favour, elle ne doute pas d'arriver très vite à ses fins. Mais elle a pourtant un rival de poids dans la course aux millions, car, si Richard Favour a perdu sa femme, il n'a pas perdu son encombrante famille... Au sein de cette respectable bourgeoisie, les arnaqueurs - à l'argent comme aux sentiments - ne sont pas forcément ceux qu'on croit...

Fleur Daxeny is beautiful, unscrupulous, and has a large wardrobe of black designer suits. With the help of the obituaries, she gatecrashes the funerals and memorial services of the wealthy, preying on rich and newly vulnerable men. Charming her way into their lives, their beds, and their bank accounts, she takes what she can and moves swiftly on

Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses, her partner Philip has troubles at work, the whole family wants a break. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect.Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife Amanda seems more interested in her new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it, he barely has time for his children. Maybe he'll have a chance to bond with them on holiday. His old friend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain - perfect.Both families arrive at the villa and realise the awful truth - Gerard has double-booked. What no-one else realises is that Chloe and Hugh have a history, and as tensions rise within the two families, old passions resurface. It seems that Gerard's 'accidental' double booking may not be an accident after all...

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.

Après une lune de miel à rallonge, Becky rentre à Londres et retrouve son train-train de citadine avec un goût amer : sa meilleure amie l'a remplacée par une fille se rapprochant plus du cheval que de l'idéal féminin, son jouet préféré - sa Carte Bleue - est bloqué, son mari est débordé. Mais le meilleur reste à venir : ses parents lui apprennent qu'elle a une sœur née des amours prénuptiales de son père ! Un nouvel horizon se dessine pour Becky : vivement la folle aventure familiale faite de séances intensives de shopping et de soirées pyjamas. Car elle n'imagine pas seul un instant que Jess soit tout sauf son double... ,Loin de renoncer malgré leurs différences, Becky va prouver une fois de plus qu'elle a plus d'un tour dans ses sacs !

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, telling people how to manage their money - a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn. And the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York ...and has asked her to go with him.New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to all these. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other places first. Like Bloomingdales. And Saks. And that amusing little place she's been told about where you can sometimes get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Anyway, it's full of fantastic bargains.Shopaholic Abroad - because there just aren't enough shops in Britain.

Selon Rebecca Bloomwood, "si l'on pouvait porter des vêtements neufs tous les jours, la dépression nerveuse n'existerait plus". Droguée au shopping, notre héroïne s'expose à un nombre de tracas aussi impressionnant que le montant du relevé de sa carte de crédit. Témoin de la riche correspondance qu'elle entretient avec son banquier... Comble de l'ironie: Beckie est journaliste à Réussir vos épargnes, où son travail consiste à expliquer à ses lecteurs comment gérer leur budget. Les dettes s'amoncellent... Un dernier shopping pour se remonter le moral ? Impossible, toutes ses cartes sont bloquées. De solutions empiriques en effroyables mensonges, c'est la panique. De quoi miner aussi son début d'histoire d'amour avec le séduisant homme d'affaires Luke Brandon. A ce stade, une issue heureuse ne tiendrait-elle pas du miracle ?