Deja View
Published on 13. December 2004
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-340-82459-7 (ISBN)
Description
Alice and Charlie have the perfect marriage. They must have because everyone keeps telling them so. In fact, Alice's whole life is sussed. Two adorable(ish) children, one adoring(ish) husband, one nanny, one cleaner, one lovely house. And latterly a glamorous job, albeit part time and quite possibly nepotistically come by. What's not to be ecstatic about? And then a new couple move in across the road: a very perfect, impeccable, tiny stranger with a Gwyneth Paltrow accent, and a man Alice hasn't seen since she was 20. Alice has never admitted to herself that Caradoc broke her heart. But when she sees him again she begins to wonder...
Reviews / Votes
A brilliantly funny read' Heat on BAD MANORS'High on swank, a biting tale' Glamour on DEAD STYLISH.
'A wickedly funny second novel' - Heat on DEAD STYLISH.
Lisa Armstrong has done for frocks what Jilly Cooper did for polo . . . She has a wry eye, and what she saw was the zeitgeist . . . a merrily entertaining novel with an eerie finger on the pulse of everything modern . . . irresistibly funny' - Victoria Mather in the Daily Mail on FRONT ROW.
'Great escapism' - Woman's Own on FRONT ROW.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Illustrations
n/a
Dimensions
Height: 31 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 240 mm
Weight
621 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-82459-7 (9780340824597)
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Person
Lisa Armstrong became a journalist after graduating from Bristol University. She has worked on newspapers and magazines, and was Features Director of Vogue before becoming Style Editor at the Times.