Can You Keep a Secret?

By Sophie Kinsella

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Average Rating: (See all 4 reviews) Format: Paperback, 416 pages Published In: United States, December 2005 Quantity Available: 4 Condition: New 24 hour shipping With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her mother: Sammy the goldfish in my parents' kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt. Secrets from her boyfriend: I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. From her colleagues: When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times. Secrets she wouldn't share with anyone in the world: My G-string is hurting me.Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger. But come Monday morning, Emma's office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company's elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn't possibly get worse--Until they do. "From the Hardcover edition. About the Author Sophie Kinsella is a former financial journalist and the author of the bestselling novels Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, and Shopaholic Ties the Knot. She lives in England, where she is at work on her next novel.From the Hardcover edition. Praise Praise"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"Kinsella's timing is so perfect, her instincts so spot-on ... delightful." --The Miami HeraldFrom the Hardcover edition. Links Visit the author's website. Read an excerpt Publisher: Dell Publishing Company ISBN: 0440241901 EAN: 9780440241904 Dimensions: 17.37 x 10.87 x 2.77 centimetres (0.20 kg)

Just read this from cover to cover last night - not exactly deep and meaningful but a great read if you're in the mood for lighthearted engaging chick "flick" of a novel. Emma's learning curve to just be herself is the theme of the book and is one that is good to be reminded of.

This book is brilliant! It's hard these days for women in their early twenties which are sick of reading either teen reads and/or "I'm-in-my thirties" novels.
This is a story about a young woman trying to make her way in the world the wrong way. She tells fibs, is great at self delusion and creates more mess for herself than anything else.
Truly one of the greatest books to read when you're looking for romance and a HUGE laugh. Witty, different and light.

A great read. A simple idea that is well executed. I actually couldnt put the book down and read through the night. I even think i laughed out loud once or twice. Highly recommended.

Believing she is about to perish in a plane wreck, Emma Corrigan babbles out her secrets, desires and idiosyncrasies to the handsome and reassuring man seated next to her. Having survived (Emma, with her own jangled mind, was doubtful of this), she shows up for work the next day only to be introduced to that seatmate. He's the CEO of the U.S.-based Panther Cola she's been marketing.

As she tries to recover her professional stature with her boss Emma finds herself enmeshed in a tangled web of her own weaving as she tries to get to know more about Jack. It should be noted that Emma has considerable help at her crazy loom from her flatmates Lissy and Jemima. At the same time Jack is trying to get to know Emma, but his thoughts are more business-based than romance-based. Emma to him is a fine marketing specimen of a young working woman in her twenties. This part of the plot wears thin.

The early chapters, in which Emma's flight from Glasgow begins a precipitous plunge and she begins her ill-considered true confessions, are quite engaging and spring out of a genuinely sympathetic perspective: so many people are prone to chatter when in shock. And the comic element of having Emma's business-class seatmate wind up being her boss is classic stuff.

But Jack's "betrayal" of Emma does not seem genuine. Perhaps it's a cultural divide, but it's difficult to believe that any television show, even one on "Business Inspirations," would allow a CEO to go on and on about the tiny details Jack reveals, from Emma's Barbie bedspread to her borrowing her roommate's shoes (not to mention the other information about her roommate --- mortification alert!) Jack uses the elements of Emma's character that have made her so believable as a business ploy --- but what ensues feels like forced farce.