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Sex and Vanity

Delightful ... complete with designer outfits, glamorous parties, and exotic locations.

Sex and Vanity scores high on all intended fronts; the opening half, set in Capri, is bathed in sunshine and sexual tension. The novel reads like travel porn, listing the island's best and lesser-known sights, places to eat, stay and drink. And then there is the story of Lucie Tang Churchill, a biracial New York princess from the Upper East Side, attending an eye-wateringly extravagant wedding.

Sex and Vanity is basically your PERFECT SUMMER READ. Set in Capri, New York &amp; the Hamptons, the location descriptions are so evocative you will feel like you're there. The characters bounce around the globe engaging in pretty much the binary opposite of social distancing so a double win for this delicious, delightful romp.

This satirical romp through the gilded lives of the international super-rich is laugh-out-loud funny, with all the crackle you'd expect from the author of Crazy Rich Asians, plus a tender love story at its heart.

Sex and Vanity, another decadent romance novel by Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan ... [is] the perfect summer read.

Effervescent, grand cru escapism. All the playful Kwan hallmarks are present and correct. Sex and Vanity may poke plenty of fun at the moral iniquities of the impossibly wealthy but it's also astute on the racism that can exist within Asian families as well as without.

Delicious and delightful, I adored it.

As fizzy and refreshing as a peach Bellini.

A whip-smart homage to EM Forster's A Room With A View, but with designer outfits, lavish parties and Instagram.

With a warm love story at its heart, Sex and Vanity is also a satire on the rich and privileged that you'll devour in one gulp.

Love and gossip and glamour... oh my!

Kwan follows up his Crazy Rich Asians trilogy with an intoxicating, breezy update of E.M. Forster's A Room with a View . . . There are moments both catty and witty . . . [A] delectable comedy of manners-the literary equivalent of white truffle and caviar pizza.

True love will find a way, even among the status-obsessed and filthy rich . . . [With] irresistibly knowing humour and delightful central characters . . . This is the only way you're getting to Capri this year. Why resist?

From the writer of Crazy Rich Asians comes another bombshell book exploring the internal conflict when you pit class and love against one another.

Sex and Vanity is light-hearted, unadulterated entertainment - ideal for lifting any lingering lockdown blues.

Sex and Vanity is a deliciously decadent romp through Manhattan, the Hamptons and the Italian idyll of Capri.

If you loved Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, you are no doubt going to love this story too . . . there is love and gossip and glamour - and what more would you want, really?

Kevin Kwan's witty, frothy and entirely delectableromcom is a sharp but affectionate satire on the luxurious lives of the international smart set.

Kevin Kwan is the author of Crazy Rich Asians, the international bestselling novel that has been translated into more than 30 languages. Its sequel, China Rich Girlfriend, was released in 2015, and Rich People Problems, the final book in the trilogy, followed in 2017. For several weeks in 2018, the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy commanded the top three positions of the New York Times bestseller list - an almost unprecedented single-author trifecta, and the film adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians became Hollywood's highest grossing romantic comedy in over a decade. In 2018, Kevin was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON CRAZY RICH ASIANS RETURNS WITH THE GLITTERING TALE OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO FINDS HERSELF TORN BETWEEN TWO MEN. 
 
'Your perfect summer read' Daily Mail 
 
'Delightful' Independent 
 
'Laugh-out-loud funny' Sunday Mirror 
 
When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish wedding in Capri, she can't stand him. She can't stand that he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so she can have a sea view, that he knows more about the island than she does, and worst of all, that he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins. What would her Mayflower-descended, Wall Street-wealthy family think of him? But years later, when Lucie is weekending with her fiancé in East Hampton, George unexpectedly appears and Lucie must decide - does she follow her head or her heart? 
 
 A gloriously decadent homage to A Room with a View, Sex and Vanity is a glittering modern love story and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.

Rich People Problems

A sweeping, gloriously wicked novel of a family riven by fortune, from bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
'Flashy, funny ... Delicious ... A memorable, laugh-out-loud Asian glitz fest that's a pure pleasure to read' USA Today 
 
Nicholas Young's grandmother Su Yi is on her deathbed. While he rushes to be by her bedside, he's not the only one. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. With all parties vying to inherit a trophy estate in the heart of Singapore, Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of sabotage and scandal. 
 
Taking us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, Kevin Kwan's final installment in this irresistible trilogy reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems.

Flashy, funny ... Delicious ... A memorable, laugh-out-loud Asian glitz fest that's a pure pleasure to read.

Kevin Kwan has done it again. Mastermind ... [is] back at it with the series final installment ... Rest assured, it's just as enthralling as the trilogy's first two volumes.

I gobbled all three volumes of Kevin Kwan's gossipy, name-droppy and wickedly funny Crazy Rich Asians trilogy as if they were popcorn. (Really fresh, still-warm popcorn, with that good European butter ... but I digress.) ... Irresistible.

Your next hit of over-the-top couture drama ... The perfect indulgent long-weekend read.

Something for everyone ... A smorgasbord of rich delights.

Kevin Kwan

LIES &amp; WEDDINGS is truly delicious - it's everything I want a book to be, exhilarating, clever and fun. Life is better when I'm in the middle of a Kevin Kwan book. I didn't want this to end. I think it's his best yet

Salacious and addictive, every page left me giggling with glee

This novel is vintage Kwan and this time we take a hilarious dive into the Anglo-Asian billionaire scene which is populated with fierce Chinese moms, power-mad aunties, penniless English Lords, fabulous weddings, stately homes and too many secrets to mention. Imagine Crazy Rich Asians mated with Saltburn and you've got Lies and Weddings - a heavenly summertime read!

Mr. Kwan knows how to deliver guilty pleasures . . . outrageous . . . wickedly delectable

A plot with more twists than an Elsa Peretti for Tiffany corkscrew

Endlessly entertaining . . . you can’t be in a bad mood while reading this book

'Truly delicious... everything I want a book to be' DAISY BUCHANAN 
'Wickedly delectable' NEW YORK TIMES 
'Hugely fun' i PAPER 
'Salacious and addictive, every page left me giggling with glee' ANNIE LORD 
‘Juicy, salacious and a whole lot of fun' GLAMOUR 
 
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS 
 
Eden Tong is used to feeling out of place. Growing up next door to Greshamsbury Manor, she spent her days in the shadow of the chilly matriarch Arabella and her children: free-spirited Augie, golden child Bea, and Rufus, Eden’s childhood best friend. 
 
When she receives an invite to a luxurious wedding in Hawaii, she finds herself thrown back into the family’s orbit: and face-to-face with Rufus. The future Earl is gorgeous, artistic, and – unbeknownst to Eden – desperately in love with her. 
 
But his mother has other plans. Arabella knows the terrible truth – the Greshamsbury family is drowning in debt. Rufus needs to find a match with serious money to keep them afloat. Arabella is prepared to destroy anyone who gets in her way. Including Eden . . . 
 
Lies and Wedding transports its reader from the white-sand beaches of Hawaii to the colourful medinas of Marrakech, via the glitzy bachelor pads of Beverly Hills and opulent English countryside manors. This is a hilarious, juicy, and page-turning story about love and money – and the lies we tell to keep them. 
 
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PRAISE FOR KEVIN KWAN 
 
'Your perfect summer read' DAILY MAIL 
'Delightful' INDEPENDENT 
'Laugh-out-loud funny' SUNDAY MIRROR 
'Pure entertainment' NYLON 
‘Hilarious’ COSMOPOLITAN

Kevin Kwan

Praise for Lies and Weddings

LIES & WEDDINGS is truly delicious - it's everything I want a book to be, exhilarating, clever and fun. Life is better when I'm in the middle of a Kevin Kwan book. I didn't want this to end. I think it ...

Expect glorious, salacious fun

Salacious and addictive, every page left me giggling with glee

LIES & WEDDINGS is truly delicious - it's everything I want a book to be, exhilarating, clever and fun. Life is better when I'm in the middle of a Kevin Kwan book. I didn't want this to end. I think it ...

Expect glorious, salacious fun

Salacious and addictive, every page left me giggling with glee

LIES & WEDDINGS is truly delicious - it's everything I want a book to be, exhilarating, clever and fun. Life is better when I'm in the middle of a Kevin Kwan book. I didn't want this to end. I think it ...

Expect glorious, salacious fun

Salacious and addictive, every page left me giggling with glee

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