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When Annie Valentine agrees to help her best friend Svetlana pull off a charity fashion show, she thinks it’ll be a breeze. After all, no one knows couture quite like Annie, so how hard can it be? Answer: very. With no venue, no clothes, and definitely no showstopper, Annie’s in danger of her first ever fashion fail. And just when the wardrobe rails are about to collapse, her family life does too. Daughter Lauren is home from New York with a broken heart, son Owen is off to university with an empty wallet, and Annie is hanging on by a thread.

There aren't enough hours in the day for Jo Randall, overworked, sleep-deprived newspaper reporter, newly single mum, and logistical genius (when it comes to Barbie-themed birthday parties, anyway). Between wrangling her two young daughters, dodging her smug ex-husband and his new girlfriend, and trying to remember where she last saw her car keys, Jo’s barely got time to breathe — she's not just breaking news, she's at breaking point.

Hamburgo, 1970. Henny celebra su cumpleaños rodeada de su familia y de sus inseparables amigas. El hilo de la complicidad que unía su vida con la de Käthe, Lina e Ida continúa ahora en las nuevas generaciones: Florentine, la modelo que regresa de París con una inesperada noticia; Katja, que sueña con fotografiar conflictos por todo el mundo.

Tess Simpson needs a break. No one appreciates her at home. No one appreciates her at work. And now her dog has died. She’s had enough! Maybe what she really needs is a break from hopeless husband, Dave, the ungrateful ‘kidults’ and the lacklustre job.

Sofía Montalvo y Mariana León fueron amigas en el colegio. Sofía, joven imaginativa, de carácter abierto, se ha visto atrapada en una anodina existencia de esposa y madre de familia. Mariana se ha convertido en una brillante psiquiatra de moda. Al cabo de más de treinta años, el azar las hace coincidir y el recuerdo de su amistad desencadena en ambas una revolución interior que irá creciendo a lo largo del libro. En el encuentro, Mariana evoca la afición de Sofía por las palabras y la anima a escribir.

After her first ex abandoned her and her second ex let her down, Eve has worked hard to rebuild her family’s life and now, she’s doing just fine, or so she thinks. She definitely doesn’t have the time or the energy to trust anyone else with her fragile heart. But then eldest son Tom drops a bombshell and precocious daughter Anna is determined to make Eve see that there is a man in her life who could be absolutely perfect for her.

Ambitious, succesful, attractive, and newly married, Bella Browning is determined to Have It All. She wants love, sex, a beautiful home, a fabulous career, kids AND to keep her jaw-dropping looks. How hard can it be?! Her journalist husband, Don, is terrified. He’s not against babies, but his job takes him all over the world and into warzones! The last thing he wants is a war at home. But he'll do anything to make Bella happy. Won't he? But Bella's about to discover that having it all is absolute rubbish.

Personal shopper Annie Valentine is back! Older and bolder! Fashion guru Annie is struggling to cope with her hectic life. With the demands of two older children, plus four-year-old twins, her marriage to Ed is in a romance-free rut and she’s clinging by a couture thread to her job as the nation’s favourite fashion fixer. And where is Svetlana, her multi-millionaire friend, when Annie needs her? Busy with an expensive mid-life crisis, that's where!

Jennifer McAndrew thinks she’s living her best life in London – wonderful man, great job, happily child-free. Except the ‘wonderful man’ turns out to have a secret that ruins everything. Shocked and devastated, Jen doesn’t know what to do. So, she packs her bags and runs for the hills – away from her problems, all the way to her childhood home in Scotland and the safety of her dad. But her dad is a changed man. Busy with his girlfriend, golf and G&Ts, he doesn’t have time for Jen’s worries. And she can’t see her sister, Isla, who she fell out with years ago.

Tired of being underestimated, Annie Valentine is determined to prove to everyone that she can make her life a success. Her job as a personal shopper is brilliant, but she’s now intent on setting up a shoe and handbag empire of her own. To get there, she’ll do anything and go anywhere—the handbag factories of Italy are calling! But what started out as a fun after hours project is getting slightly out of hand. Because Annie is working around the clock to bag the perfect bargain, and her family life and relationship with adorable Ed is feeling the strain.

Fashion-guru Annie’s well-dressed world is falling apart – first she has lost her legendary sense of style, and now her daughter Lauren seems to have become her worst enemy. Even her multi-millionairess friend, Svetlana, is having daughter trouble – she’s at war with Elena over their business in New York.

Cosa saresti disposto a fare per il tuo migliore amico? Pola, 1946. La guerra è finita, ma la pace è ancora un’illusione. Mentre l’Italia cerca di risollevarsi, nella città di Pola due ragazzi, Zeno e Alvise, vivono quella che potrebbe essere la loro ultima estate insieme. Hanno appena terminato le scuole elementari e cercano di aggrapparsi alla loro amicizia, l’unico punto fermo in un mondo che sta cambiando troppo in fretta. È un’estate di scoperte e di prime volte.

Aluna, una bruja que vive en la serenidad de su vieja casa en el pueblo de El Santuario, se ve obligada a viajar a La Civilización para investigar la misteriosa desaparición de su padre y chamán, Daniel Jolugo. Juntos recorrerán los confines de la esperanza, cómplices de un trayecto que oscila entre lo espiritual y lo político, entre la sombra de sus más profundos secretos y la luz del fuego que durante siglos permaneció oculto.

Jess and Nina, Nina and Jess … to everyone else they’re typical best friends, sharing closeness and confidences in their own little world. But Nina and Jess have a secret. Simply by touching their foreheads together, they can swap bodies. In Jess’s assertive persona, self-conscious Nina turns bolder, free to say what she’s frightened to voice on her own. Inhabiting Nina, Jess becomes part of the loving, stable family she craves. Now, in crisis after her father’s death, Jess has reentered Nina’s life following a long separation.