The Other Woman

The NO. 1 bestselling author of The Beach House and Mr. Maybe is back - exploring a dilemma that women everywhere will recognise in The Other Woman . . . 
 
'A compelling page-turner from start to finish' Daily Express 
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Ellie and Dan are proof that opposites attract. 
 
He always follows instructions - she throws the manual away. 
 
He loves sport - she's allergic to exercise. 
 
She doesn't have a mother - his wants to take over EVERYTHING. 
 
At first Ellie is thrilled to have Linda as her 'adopted' mother and to be a part of the close, loving Cooper family. 
 
But when she and Dan decide to get married, she starts to find her future mother-in-law is just a bit too involved, and suddenly her wedding is turning into something she never even wanted. Is Ellie marrying Dan . . . or his mother?! 
 
One thing's for sure, before the big day Ellie's going to have to work out who comes first in Dan's affections . . . 
 
'Will send a shiver down the spines of brides everywhere' Daily Mirror 
 
'Utterly compulsive' Company

Jane Green is the Number One bestselling author of fourteen novels: Straight Talking, Jemima J, Mr Maybe,Bookends, Babyville, Spellbound, The Other Woman, Life Swap, Second Chance, The Beach House, Girl Friday, The Love Verb, The Patchwork Marriage and The Accidental Husband. Jane and her husband live in Connecticut with their blended family of six children.

Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract. 
He always follows instructions and she throws the manual away. 
He loves sports whereas Ellie's allergic to any form of exercise. 
Ellie doesn't have a mother. And Dan does - a mother who wants to take over ... EVERYTHING. 
 
At first Ellie is thrilled to have Linda as her 'adopted'mother but when she and Dan decide to get married and wedding plans progress, she starts to wonder: is it normal for Linda and Dan to speak on the phone twice a day? How on earth do they come to be having a reception with Chilean bloody seabass and humongous bloody white ribbons tied everywhere when all she wanted was a quiet registry office? 
 
In fact, is she marrying Dan ... OR HIS MOTHER?

Straight Talking

Number one bestseller Jane Green - author of Babyville and The Love Verb - explores the hectic life of a single career girl looking to find love in her hilarious first novel Straight Talking. 
 
This could be about your best friend. Or your girlfriend. Or it might be about you. 
 
Are you Tasha - single and searching? 
Or her best friends: 
Andy, hooked on passion; 
Mel, stuck in a relationship with a bastard; 
or Emma, endlessly waiting for her other half to propose? 
 
Do you know an Andrew - suave, good-looking and head over heels in love . . . with himself? 
Or a Simon - allergic to commitment and dangerously treacherous? 
Or even an Adam - handsome, kind, humorous, but too nice to be sexy? 
 
Follow them all in their journey to find fulfillment and love. 
 
'Funny, honest, superb' Company 
 
'Any woman who's suffered a relationship trauma will die for this book. Wickedly funny, will make you squeal with laughter' Cosmopolitan

Jane Green is the Number One bestselling author of nineteen novels including: Straight Talking, Jemima J, Mr Maybe, Bookends, Babyville, Spellbound, The Other Woman, Life Swap, Second Chance, The Beach House, Girl Friday, The Love Verb, The Patchwork Marriage, The Accidental Husband and Tempting Fate. Jane and her husband live in Connecticut with their blended family of six children.

This could be about your best friend. Or your girlfriend. Or it might be about you. 
 
Are you Tasha - single and still searching? Are you one of her three best friends? Andy, hooked on passion; Mel, stuck in a steady relationship with a bastard; or Emma, endlessly waiting for her other half to propose? Do you know an Andrew - suave, goodlooking and head over heels in love . . . with himself? Or a Simon - allergic to commitment and dangerously treacherous? Or an Adam - handsome, kind, humorous, but too nice to be sexy? 
 
Follow them all in their journey to find fulfilment and love.

Spellbound

A sparkling and romantic novel from the No.1 bestselling author

Jane Green, author the best-sellers The Beach House and Second Chance, follows happily married Alice who moves from London to the USA only to discover that her life is not as fairy-tale as it seems in Spellbound. 
 
Alice has everything. So why isn't she happy? 
 
After all, she has a handsome husband, a gorgeous home and membership of London's most exclusive clubs. Okay, Joe can't keep his hands to himself - but she got what she wanted, didn't she? 
 
When Joe's indiscretions force a transfer to New York, Alice hopes it'll be a fresh start. And when they find a beautiful old house in Connecticut she is overjoyed. For a while Alice and Joe are as happy as newlyweds. 
 
But then the late nights and unexplained absences start. Alice is desperate to give her marriage a fairy tale ending. What should she do? Stay and fight for Joe? Or try to break the spell he's cast over her? 
 
'Will have you hungrily turning page after page' Heat 
 
'Green whips up a sparkling morality tale that points the finger at bad boys and low-rent romance' Independent 
 
'Her books are just damn readable' Glamour 
 
Jane Green's novels, including The Other Woman, Jemima J., Babyville, The Love Verb (published as Promises to Keep in the USA), Girl Friday (Dune Road), Life Swap (Swapping Lives), Straight Talking, The Patchwork Marriage (Another Piece of My Heart), Mr. Maybe, and Bookends, are as moving as they are funny and have achieved best-seller status internationally. Spellbound is published in the USA as To Have and to Hold.

Simply the highest quality a chick can get...Spellbound will have you hungrily turning page after page...So delicious you'll want to wolf it down in one go

Green whips up a sparkling morality tale that points the finger at bad boys and low-rent romance

Alice knows she should be happy. 
 
After all she has a handsome husband, a beautiful house and membership to all the most exclusive clubs in London. So what if the rumours about her husband's skirt-chasing are becoming harder to ignore? 
 
When Joe's indiscretions force a transfer to New York, Alice hopes it might be a fresh start. And when they find a beautiful old house in Connecticut Alice is overjoyed. For a while she and Joe seem as happy as newlyweds. 
 
But then the late nights and unexplained absences start again. What should Alice do? Stay and fight for him? Or leave with her head held high?

Second Chance

Jane Green, author of the bestsellers The Love Verb and The Beach House, examines love, life, and friendships in her moving and entertaining novel Second Chance. 
 
Holly Macintosh is sitting round her kitchen table with her oldest friends - friends she hasn't seen since school - now reunited by an unexpected tragedy and catching up on the past 20 years. 
 
On the surface, they are all successful and happy. But scratch a little deeper after that extra glass of wine and it's not quite so straightforward: Paul and Anna are struggling to have a baby, Saffron the actress is still waiting for that really big break that - at 39 - is looking less and less likely, and Olivia, always the wallflower of the group, is newly single and mourning her lost love. 
 
And what about Holly Mac? Can she and her husband Marcus get their marriage back on track for the sake of the children? Or has someone just come back into her life who will change everything forever? 
 
'A corker of a story' Heat 
 
'Witty and wise . . . another winner' Daily Express 
 
'Will keep you entertained to the last page' Cosmopolitan

A corker of a story, sharply and elegantly told

Fizzing with fast-and-furious dialogue, this is vintage Green

Holly Macintosh is sitting round her kitchen table with her oldest friends &ndash; friends she hasn&rsquo;t seen since school - now reunited by an unexpected tragedy and catching up on the past 20 years. 
 
On the surface, they are all successful and happy. But scratch a little deeper after that extra glass of wine and it&rsquo;s not quite so straightforward: Paul and Anna are struggling to have a baby, Saffron the actress is still waiting for that really big break that &ndash; at 39 &ndash; is looking less and less likely, and Olivia, always the wallflower of the group, is newly single and mourning her lost love. 
 
And what about Holly Mac? Can she and her husband Marcus get their marriage back on track for the sake of the children? Or has someone just come back into her life who will change everything forever?

The Beach House

Lose yourself in the perfect heart-warming read for summer, for fans of Jill Mansell, Katie Fforde, and Carole Matthews, from number one bestseller Jane Green 
 
Nan, a widow whose family has flown the nest, is an independent, free-spirited woman who couldn't care less what people think about her living alone in her beloved beach house. 
 
But when money starts running out and she might lose her home, she knows it's time for a drastic change. 
 
Nan decides to rent out rooms for the summer, filling the house with noise, laughter and tears. 
 
Among the visitors is Daniel, a recently divorced father, who's struggling to find out who he really is, and Daff, the single mother of a truculent teenager who blames her mother unreservedly for her parents' divorce. 
But as the house comes to life again, Nan finds her family growing . . . 
 
Her son comes home for the summer and an unexpected visitor turns up, turning all their lives upside down. 
 
From the bestselling author of The Sunshine Sisters, Summer Secrets and Falling comes a heart-warming and compelling story of friendship, love and those moments that can change your life. 
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'A corker of a story, sharply and elegantly told' Heat 
 
'A delicious treat confirming that Green is still the queen of chick lit' In Style

A delicious treat confirming that Green is still queen of chick lit

Nan, a widow whose family has flown the nest, is an independent, free-spirited woman who couldn't care less what people think about her living alone in her beloved beach house. But when she discovers that money is running out and she might lose her home, she knows it's time for a drastic change. 
 
Nan decides to rent out rooms for the summer and people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, laughter and tears. Among them is Daniel, a recently divorced father, who's struggling to find out who he really is, and Daff, the single mother of a truculent teenager who blames her mother unreservedly for her parents' divorce. 
 
As the house comes to life again, Nan finds her family growing. Her son comes home for the summer and an unexpected visitor turns up, turning all their lives upside down ... 
 
Compelling, absorbing and poignant, The Beach House is a story of friendship, love and those moments that can change your life.

Girl Friday

Jane Green, author of the bestsellers Second Chance and Straight Talking, examines love, friendships and their limits in her moving and entertaining novel Girl Friday. 
 
Since her divorce a year ago, Kit Hargrove feels she has finally got her life back on track. 
 
Gone is the lonely Wall Street widow she used to be, and in her place is a happier, more fulfilled woman, with a new job she loves - working for uber-famous novelist Robert McClore - a small but cosy new home with her children, and the beginnings of a tentative friendship with her ex-husband. She even has time for yoga classes with her new best friend Tracy. The only thing missing is a man. And when Tracy introduces her to Steve - charming, romantic and attentive - Kit wonders if he could be the final piece of the jigsaw. 
 
But Kit doesn't know that Tracy is hiding a secret, one that could destroy their friendship, her happiness with Steve, even her new life. Torn between suspicion and love, Kit doesn't know which way to turn. For there are some betrayals that a friendship can't survive . . . 
 
Praise for Jane Green 
 
'A densely plotted brew of love and mistakes' The Times 
 
'Green keeps us transfixed until the very last word' Heat

When Kit and Adam separated after almost fifteen years of marriage, Kit felt like she had lost her lover, her best friend and her identity all in one fell swoop. But now, a year on from the divorce, Kit has found herself again and she loves her life in the idyllic Connecticut town of Highfield. She has the perfect job - working for Robert McClore, the famous novelist - two wonderful children, a good relationship with her ex-husband and time to enjoy yoga with her friends. Then Tracy, Kit's yoga instructor and close friend, introduces her to Steve - attentive, charming, the perfect gentleman - and, for the first time in years, Kit thinks she may have found the right one. But is Steve really as perfect as he seems? And why does it bother Kit when Tracy starts dating Kit's reclusive boss, Robert? 
 
What no one knows is that Tracy is hiding a secret - one that threatens to ruin her new-found happiness with Robert and her friendship with Kit. And now Tracy must decide whether to keep her past hidden from them both for ever or whether she should reveal the truth before it's too late... 
 
Sparkling, poignant and wise, Girl Friday is a captivating tale of friendship, family and marriage as both Kit and Tracy discover that sometimes the people you thought you had lost make their way back into your life again... 
 
N.B. Girl Friday is called Dune Road in the US

Jane Green

At twenty-seven, Libby thinks there's a lot to be said for a rich husband. So when Nick comes along - lovely, funny, handsome Nick, who has no money whatsoever, lives in a grotty bedsit and thinks the perfect night out consists of the pub and his mates - she decides he's only good for a fling. No strings attached. 
 
Investment banker Ed, on the other hand, could possibly be the answer. His house in Regent's Park makes up for his hideous moustache and she can probably overlook his irritating habits, and anyway, he's crazy about her. But does Libby really know what she needs? Is she just in love with being loved? Or is she loving the lifestyle, rather than the man?

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