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La Trilogie Notting HellSéries

Cette série offre un regard acéré et plein d'esprit sur la vie de l'élite londonienne. Elle suit les histoires de femmes qui semblent tout avoir : maisons parfaites, familles et statut social. Pourtant, sous la surface se cachent des relations complexes, des désirs cachés et des insatisfactions profondes. Les récits exposent de manière hilarante les absurdités et les superficialités de la vie aisée dans un quartier exclusif, où la quête de la perfection se heurte aux luttes personnelles.

Fresh Hell
Le diable vit à Notting Hill
Shire Hell

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  1. 1

    Le diable vit à Notting Hill

    • 386pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    2,9(769)Évaluer

    L'argent ne fait pas le bonheur... même quand on habite un square privé de Notting Hill, l'adresse la plus branchée, la plus recherchée, la plus snob de Londres. Prenez Clare et Mimi. Elles ont moins de quarante ans, sont mariées, copines, voisines, mènent une existence de rêve. Jusqu'au jour où débarque un milliardaire américain, célibataire, la tentation incarnée. Chassés-croisés amoureux et intrigues immobilières se succèdent alors sur la verte pelouse et ce coin de paradis si cher payé se révèle infernal. Notting Hill ? Notting Hell plutôt ! La tranquillité des beautiful people vole en éclats. Et le lecteur, lui, éclate de rire.Aïe, aïe, aïe, le ver est dans le fruit, les femmes croquent dedans, et nous, on se marre. Isabelle Lortholary, Elle.

    Le diable vit à Notting Hill
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    Shire Hell

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    2,8(108)Évaluer

    Mimi and Ralph have left social climbing, pushy parenting and their marital problems behind them in London, and moved west to the bucolic green depths of the country. Or so they thought. Yes, there's mud and masses of fresh air, plenty of handsome hayseeds and there's Rose, Mimi's new best friend and Dorset's answer to Martha Stewart. But what should be Shire Heaven is, it turns out, just as tricky to navigate as Notting Hell.There's low-level conflict between the racehorses in vintage/Diesel/Ralph Lauren and the brood mares in Barbour/Boden, there's guerrilla warfare between the landowners and eco-warriers and naked hostility between Old Money, New Money and No Money. Yes, in honeybourne, if you don't have:1) A landscaped garden within 1000 acres (minimum) of prime land2) A helipad for your trophy guests3) An organic farm shop selling 16 sorts of home-made sausages4) Four pony-mad polo-playing children5) A literary festival in your mini-stately6) A bottom that looks smackable in jodhpursThen, well...you're Mimi basically. And that's just the start of her problems. Mimi also has a secret. But can she keep it?

    Shire Hell
  3. 3

    Fresh Hell

    2,9(125)Évaluer

    'I just loved it. Lethally funny and so clever.' - Jilly CooperI ADORED it. It's the most fun I've had with a book in a long time, and I love how she writes - so many dazzling sentences and phrases.' - Marian KeyesDebt, double-basements, dastardly bankers...and DIVORCE?'Hell is other people' and journalist Mimi Fleming is fast realizing on her return to Notting Hill that there is no greater hell than the W11 neighbours with whom she shares an exclusive communal garden. Since she's been away, all her friends have become - impossibly - even richer, thinner, and YOUNGER. They're busy not just turning back the clock but also their homes into palatial iceberg houses - with basement swimming pools.But Mimi's troubles are just beginning. There's the compromising and risky mission she'd undertaking to re-launch her so-called journalism career (plus an embarrassing case of mistaken identity thanks to Google). Then there's her children who will only communicate via WhatsApp . And worst of all, Mimi's fallen for someone, and it's certainly not her husband Ralph.Ralph and Mimi have already been to Notting Hell and back. But is this the end or the beginning of something new?

    Fresh Hell
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