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Zusatztext “Venturing beyond Saks and Barney’s! the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans! competition! scandal! love and sex. . . . Kinsella’s down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter.” — Publishers Weekly “If laughing out loud in public places is your bag! be sure to pick up [ Can You Keep a Secret? ]. Heroine Emma Corrigan is going to be your new best friend.” — Boston Herald “Kinsella’s timing is so perfect! her instincts so spot-on! that it’s easy to . . . devour the book like the guilty pleasure it is.” — Miami Herald “Chick lit at its lightest and breeziest . . . filled with fabulous clothes! stalwart friends! and snotty enemies waiting to be taken down a peg.” — Orlando Sentinel “[Kinsella’s] dialogue is sharp! even her minor characters are well drawn! and her parody of the marketing world is very funny.” — Washington Post Book World “[A] comedic frenzy of ill-fated events . . . punchy . . . fast-moving.” — Rocky Mountain News “Kinsella’s witty take on mundane office and family life will really make you laugh out loud. . . . Move over! Bridget [Jones]!” — Evening Chronicle (U.K.) “Hilarious.” — Sun (U.K.) “Kinsella’s light touch keeps this very funny look at life and relationships flying along and builds Emma into a genuinely endearing character. Romantic! but refreshingly witty.” — Sunday Mirror (U.K.) “Like a riotous gossip with your best friend—it’ll have you laughing! cringing and hopelessly engrossed from the first page.” —Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail “A delightful new novel . . . Kinsella has another irresistible hit on her hands.” — Booklist Informationen zum Autor Sophie Kinsella is the author of the bestselling Shopaholic series! as well as the novels Can You Keep A Secret?! The Undomestic Goddess! Remember Me?! Twenties Girl! I’ve Got Your Number! and Wedding Night . She lives in England. Chapter One Of course I have secrets. Of course I do. Everyone has a few secrets. It’s completely normal. I’m not talking about big, earth-shattering secrets. Not the-president-is planning-to-bomb-Japan-and-only-Will-Smith- can-save-the-world type secrets. Just normal, everyday little secrets. Like, for example, here are a few random secrets of mine, off the top of my head: 1.My Kate Spade bag is a fake. 2.I love sweet sherry, the least cool drink in the universe. 3.I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even exactly what it is. 4.I weigh 128 pounds. Not 118, like my boyfriend, Connor, thinks. (Although, in my defense, I was planning to go on a diet when I told him that. And, to be fair, it is only one number different.) 5.I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. 6.Sometimes, when we’re right in the middle of passionate sex, I suddenly want to laugh. 7.I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. 8.I’ve already drunk the wine that Dad told me to save for twenty years. 9.Sammy the goldfish at home isn’t the same goldfish that Mum and Dad gave me to look after when they went to Egypt. 10.When my colleague Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) 11.I once had this weird lesbian dream about my flatmate Lissy. 12.My G-string is hurting me. 13.I’ve always had this deep-down conviction that I’m not like everybody else, and there’s an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner. 14.I hav...
