Anna's boyfriend Seb is impossibly handsome, impossibly rich and generally just impossible. When eventually he dumps her, she vows to give up men and throw herself into her career. Which is how she ends up working for Cassandra. The social climber from hell, Cassandra has a huge house in Kensington, a philandering rock star husband and the spawn of Satan for a son. So when desperate-to-escape Anna meets dashing Jamie, charming heir to a castle in Scotland, she can't believe her luck. And she probably shouldn't...
Number one bestselling author Wendy Holden has written ten consecutive
Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. A former journalist on the
Sunday Times,
Tatler and the
Mail on Sunday, she contributes to a range of publications and is a TV and radio regular. She was a judge for the Costa 2013 Novel and Book of the Year Awards. Wendy lives with her husband and two children in Derbyshire.
Visit her on her website www.wendyholden.net, or follow her on Twitter @Wendy_Holden and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wendyholdenauthor.
Title: Bad Heir Day
Author: Holden, Wendy
ISBN: 9780747222798
Binding:
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2000-01-06
Number of Pages: 352
Weight: 0.4583 kg
Tight plotting and controlled technique of a writer poised to become formidable in her field - Sunday Telegraph
There are some fabulous one-liners and A-Fab style send ups of the more ludicrous side of journalism. Great fun - Woman's Journal
It is rare, outside Wodehouse, that comic novels live up to their titles, but SIMPLY DIVINE is just that, to borrow from the Ab Fab critical lexicon. Wendy Holden writes a sort of profiterole prose, with paragraphs so funny and readable you worry about their calorie content - The Sunday Times
Just the thing if you need something frothy, frivolous, and fun - Harpers & Queen
Literary equivalent of a post-Christmas-lunch box - Marie-Claire
Well observed and witty - The Mirror
Wickedly witty - Esquire
Witty, well-observed, with some jolly super, quite unforgivable, puns - Mail on Sunday