Behaving Like Adults

A STUNNING, EMOTIONALLY SATISFYING READ FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RUNNING IN HEELS

Anna is exceptional at telling hilarious - but also at times, heartbreaking - stories about life and love ... you'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll feel, and isn't that what a good story is all about?

With warmth and humour Maxted pulls the strands together in a satisfyingly romantic ending

A razor-sharp and witty read, with serious undertones

Anna Maxted lives in London with her husband Phil and their three sons Oscar, Conrad and Casper. Anna read English at Cambridge and works as a freelance journalist. She is also the author of the international bestsellers, Getting Over It, Running in Heels, Behaving Like Adults, Being Committed and A Tale of Two Sisters.

Holly runs a dating agency. Up to now she's had no need of her own services, but, convinced her relationship with her fiancé Nick has staled, she turfs him out and determines to go in pursuit of hearts-and-flowers romance, true love and the soul-mate she has convinced herself must exist. 
 
In the meantime, to get back into practice, she accepts a date with the hugely eligible Stuart. Rich, arrogant and charming, he's not her type at all, but he's her guinea pig. But Stuart rather likes Holly. And he's used to getting his own way. Much to her dismay, Holly finds Stuart won't take no for an answer and suddenly things don't look so easy. 
 
Brimming with warmth, perception and understanding, Anna Maxted once again mixes the heart-breaking with the humorous to deliver a page-turning, laugh-out-loud, emotionally satisfying read.

A Tale of Two Sisters

THE FABULOUS NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEING COMMITTED ...

Maxted has always succeeded in writing thoughtfully on assorted knotty issues without ever losing her sense of humour

With her winning combination of honesty and warmth, Maxted has ensured herself another triumph

Anna Maxted applies her usual intelligent, witty approach, making you laugh and cry in equal measure. Anyone who's had a sister, or ever wanted to scream with frustration about family life, will recognise themselves in this page-turner

Hilariously funny tale which also manages to be wonderfully touching in places, too

Got a sister? Get ready to giggle and nod knowingly as you read this. Haven't got a sister? Get ready just to giggle as you read this anyway

Anna Maxted has the extraordinary gift of being able to write a deeply humorous and racy tale covering the most heartbreaking situations without detracting in any way from the seriousness of the subjects of her story

Fab and funny ... Anyone with a sister will be nodding their head the whole way through

Anna Maxted tells a tale of sibling rivalry with wit and emotion

Anna Maxted lives in London with her husband Phil and their three sons Oscar, Conrad and Casper. Anna read English at Cambridge and works as a freelance journalist. She is also the author of four international bestsellers, Getting Over It, Running in Heels, Behaving Like Adults and Being Committed.

They were the best of friends, they were the worst of friends ... 
 
Lizbet and Cassie are close, yet far apart. After a clueless upbringing (their parents' basic childrearing beliefs: 'play a trombone, see a monkey, get some fresh air'), the two sisters strike out in opposite directions, both desperate to escape... 
 
Cassie is skinny, clever, charismatic, successful - every right-thinking girl's worst nightmare. The one flaw in her quality-controlled life may be her marriage - and if there are any other flaws lurking, Cassie has them covered. 
 
Lizbet is plumper, plainer, dreamier - more concerned about the design on her coffee cup than whether she can afford her new house. She works reluctantly for Ladzmag, desperate to make her name as a writer, but stuck writing embarrassing articles on sex. Her one achievement is her relationship with Tim, who thinks she's cute not stupid for asking why Jesus has a Mexican name. 
 
Despite Cassie being the favoured child, she and Lizbet have managed to stay friends. Perhaps because - as Cassie says - they've always wanted different things. But that's about to change. Confronted by challenges that they never asked for, forced apart by mistakes not their own, will Cassie and Lizbet ever realise the real meaning of sisterhood, or will true nature ruin everything...?

Being Committed

THE FABULOUS NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEHAVING LIKE ADULTS

Funny and a little kooky, even the coldest heart will be thawed

Hannah thinks you have to be insane to get married. She's content with her life - the job as private investigator at Hound Dog Investigations, the boyfriend of five years, Jason, and the wonderful father (pity her mother is such a disaster). Besides, she's tried marriage once before, but she ended up divorced before she was 21. 
 
So, when the long-suffering Jason proposes, Hannah doesn't think twice about turning him down. Still, she is a little shaken when, a month later, the man has the nerve to get engaged to someone else. Is she not up to settling down? Hannah's family are convinced she blew her one chance of hooking a permanent man, and maybe - just maybe - there's something in Jason's theory that being committed means first coming to terms with your past...

Running In Heels

ANNA MAXTED'S TRADEMARK MIX OF LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY AND POIGNANCY WORKS ITS MAGIC ONCE AGAIN IN HER MOVING, WARM AND TRUTHFUL SECOND NOVEL

Funny and inspiring, you'll be turning the pages 'til the small hours

Powerful without being didactic, moving without being sentimental, riotously comic without being superficial. Accomplished, well-written chick lit

Warmth, humanity, and a great dollop of sympathetic humour

'To say that Babs is my closest friend is rather like saying that Einstein was good at sums. And if you've ever had a best friend, you'll know what I mean. Babs and I had such a beautiful relationship, no man could better it. And then she met Simon.' 
 
Now Babs, noisy, funny Babs, is getting married. And Natalie, 27, is panicking. What happens when your best friend pledges everlasting love to someone else? As the confetti flutters, Nat feels her good-girl veneer crack. She teeters into an alluringly unsuitable affair that spins her crazily out of control and into trouble - with her boss, Matt, and with Babs. 
 
Caught up in the thrill of bad behaviour, Nat blithely ignores the truth - about her new boyfriend, her best friend's marriage, her mother's cooking and the wisdom of inviting Bab's brother Andy - slippers and all - to be her lodger. But perhaps what Nat really needs to face is the mirror - and herself...

Anna Maxted

Side-splittingly comical and heart-wrenchingly tragic . brilliant

Witty and clever ... compelling, humane and worryingly funny

Helen Bradshaw, 26, has a lot to get over. A dogsbody job on a women's magazine. An attraction to unsuitable men. Being five foot one. Driving an elderly Toyota. 
 
She is about to ditch the infuriating Jasper when she hears the news that will change her life. Her father has collapsed with a massive heart attack. Initially Helen thinks of this as an interruption in her already chaotic lifestyle. But with his death everything starts to fall apart around her - her relationship, her mother, even her cat. 
 
Her flatmate Luke has the tact of a traffic warden with toothache, her friend Tina is in love with her new man, her landlord Marcus is in love with himself, and, after the tequila incident, it looks as though Tom the vet will be sticking to Alsatians. Seems like Helen will be dealing with this one herself...

Anna Maxted

Praise for Getting Over It

Had this reviewer laughing out loud

Side-splittingly comical and heart-wrenchingly tragic . brilliant

Witty and clever ... compelling, humane and worryingly funny

Had this reviewer laughing out loud

Side-splittingly comical and heart-wrenchingly tragic . brilliant

Witty and clever ... compelling, humane and worryingly funny

Had this reviewer laughing out loud

Side-splittingly comical and heart-wrenchingly tragic . brilliant

Witty and clever ... compelling, humane and worryingly funny

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