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Touchstone
April 2008
On Sale: April 1, 2008
352 pages ISBN: 1416532072 EAN: 9781416532071 Trade Size
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Women's Fiction
EVERY CITY HAS A NOTTING HELL . . .
"A
spot of extramarital nookie with a close neighbor is one
thing. We're
all grown-ups here. But selling a rare-to-the-market
mid-Victorian
house -- not merely a house but our children's ancestral
family
home -- on a communal garden, the sort of house that a
banker would
trample over his own grandmother to spend his bonus on -- is
another
thing entirely. It's wrong."
Meet Mimi.
Mimi may "have it all" -- the house, the children, the
part-time vanity job, the skinny jeans, the feng shui
guru -- but life chez Fleming is not as cushy as she'd like
(husband
Ralph prefers the trout stream to the fast lane). And when
Mimi meets
Si, the new billionaire on the block, at a sushi party, she
soon faces
a choice of keeping up or keeping it real.
Then
there's her best
friend Clare, neat-freak garden designer, deep in biopanic
about her
childlessness with eco-architect husband, Gideon. Clare
monitors all
illicit activity in the private West London compound, from light
adultery to heavy construction, and she is watching Mimi. .
. .
Notting Hell
is a wickedly funny and oh-so-recognizable comedy of
manners, filleting
life on a communal garden in London. So take your irreplaceable
numbered key and enter Lonsdale Gardens, the world of wealthy
one-upmanship, where the old-fashioned laws of love still
rule among
the stainless steel kitchen appliances, cashmere throws, and
compassionately produced cups of latte.
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