Confetti Confidential

Four brides. One amateur wedding planner. Whose funeral will it be come the big day?

If you like Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic books and you miss Bridget Jones, then meet Isabel

I think Isabel and I were twins separated at birth. I love her!

I quite fell in love with Isabel. Funny, charming and accident-prone, she is the perfect heroine for today

The ultimate beach novel ... a tale that'll have you giggling

Holly McQueen has wanted to be a writer ever since discovering that the nuns at her junior school would let her off maths homework if she wrote a story instead. After unexpected detours via law, magazine journalism, and even musical theatre, she began writing her first novel in 2006. Holly lives with her husband in London. She still avoids maths.

Isabel Bookbinder dreams of pearly white weddings, happy brides, handsome grooms. And champagne towers that don't topple over. She dreams of the perfect wedding. But not for herself... for her clients. 
 
It's all about bride management as far as Isabel's concerned. Even when she misplaces a couple of brides and loses her job working for wedding guru Pippa Everitt, Isabel isn't disheartened. She throws herself straight into launching Isabel Bookbinder, Individual Weddings, and with a pop starlet and a millionaire as her first clients, business is looking rosy. 
 
Unfortunately for Isabel, nothing ever goes quite according to plan...

The Fabulously Fashionable Life of Isabel Bookbinder

Designer dresses, vertiginous heels and a very loose grip on reality - the brilliantly funny Isabel Bookbinder makes her mark on the world of fashion

I think Isabel and I were twins seperated at birth. I love her!

'Does exactly what it says on the tin: if you like Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic books and you miss Bridget Jones, then meet Isabel.... I'm looking forward to the sequel. Isabel will make McQueen a star

When aspiring designer Isabel Bookbinder bags a job with Nancy 'Fashion Aristocracy' Tavistock, she's sure her career is finally on track. Dazzlingly glamorous, this is a career that she can feel truly passionate about - after all, she knows her Geiger from her Louboutin, her Primark from her Prada, and she's always poring over fashion magazines. Well, ok, the fashion pages of heat. 
 
So, learning from the very best, the future's looking bright for Isabel Bookbinder: Top International Fashion Designer. Within days she's putting the final touches to her debut collection, has dreamt up a perfume line, Isabelissimo, and is very nearly a friend of John Galliano. And on top of that she might even have fallen in love. 
 
Yet nothing ever runs smoothly for Isabel, and fabulously fashionably as her life is, it soon seems to be spiralling a little out of her control ...

The Glamorous (Double) Life of Isabel Bookbinder

Isabel Bookbinder is the adorable series character from a bright new star in commercial women's fiction. 'A marvellously funny debut' Jilly Cooper

'like catching a snippet of gossip in the girls' loos and deciding you want to carry on listening ... As frivolous deckchair escapism...it certainly does the job'

The witty world of Isabel Bookbinder hooked me instantly...a warm and captivating debut novel. A great book to read wrapped in your warmest pyjamas, with a cup of hot chocolate on a miserable winter's day

I quite fell in love with Isabel. Funny, charming and accident prone, she is the perfect heroine for today

There's an aroma of fresh coffee and warming bagels as gorgeous bestselling novelist Isabel, 27, welcomes us into her sunny apartment, light glinting off the huge Tiffany diamond studs in her ears... 
 
For Isabel Bookbinder, there's no doubt about where she's headed. 
 
Reasons to become a bestselling author: 
- Opportunities to swish new Super-hair and captivate the lovely Joe Madison 
- Prove to father that Really Am Not a Waster 
- Leave column inch-measuring days at the Saturday Mercury behind 
 
Potential setbacks: 
- Don't yet have 'Yoko' bag, as carried by arch rival with book deal, Gina D... or honed size eight figure (useful for interviews) 
- Hmm. Am also at the centre of a major political sex scandal 
- Paparazzi are doorstepping my parents and boring boyfriend Russell 
 
Of course she hasn't yet quite got round to putting pen to paper yet, but Isabel's not one to let a little thing like that stand in her way ...

Holly McQueen

Polly Atkins is getting married. 
 
And her older sister Bella couldn't be more excited. Not only will Polly be home after five years in New York, but she's coming back to marry the most perfect man on the planet, Dev. Dresses, cake, first dance ... Bella's looking forward to getting stuck into the arrangements. 
 
Polly's best friend Grace is just as excited. She's can't wait to walk down the aisle behind her childhood ally, especially as the stylish Polly wouldn't dream of dressing her bridesmaids in anything but the best, which will make a welcome change to the 'mum-wear' she's adopted since her second child was born. 
 
The only person who doesn't seem to be bursting with enthusiasm is Polly. Which is why, before things can get any more chaotic, she calls the whole thing off. And there's no way she's going to tell them why. Some secrets are best kept hidden. 
 
But she's reckoned without Grace and Bella, who are determined to get Polly and Dev back together if it's the last thing they do. After all, solving someone else's problems has got to be better than dealing with their own ...?

Holly McQueen

Books by Holly McQueen

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