Notting Hell: A Novel - Softcover

Johnson, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416532072 ISBN 13: 9781416532071

Publisher: Atria, 2008

Synopsis

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.

INCLUDES

"Notting Hill for Beginners," a witty guide to the must-haves and must knows of Notting Hill

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Review:

"Notting Hell is witty, sharp, outrageous, and cringingly real. I was riveted!" -- Sophie Kinsella, author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and The Undomestic Goddess

"Deliciously witty, wickedly funny, and surprisingly touching. She captures the zeitgeist of a society obsessed with having it all with a heady combination of hilarity and heart. The perfect feel-good read." -- Santa Montefiore, author of Last Voyage of the Valentina and The Gypsy Madonna

"Acerbic and well observed . . . with her magpie eye for local detail and a couple of good cracking jokes per page, Notting Hell is snappy, witty, definitely clever, and hugely readable." -- Nicholas Coleridge, The Spectator (UK)

"Gripping . . . a pacy mix of lifestyle envy, sexual intrigue, and good, old-fashioned gossip. A real page-turner that will appeal to those far from Notting Hill itself." -- Easy Living (UK)

"A tale of the rich behaving badly in one of London's most exclusive enclaves. Notting Hell is delicious fun." -- Karen Quinn, author of The Ivy Chronicles and Wife in the Fast Lane

"A delicious dip into the absurdly competitive world of a brand-new, rather terrifying British tribe -- the Notting Hill nouveau riche." -- Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes and The Debutante Divorcée

From the Back Cover:

`Sharp, funny and knowing - I loved it' India Knight

'I loved Notting Hell...it is shiveringly brilliant' Jilly Cooper

'a wickedly funny comedy of modern manners' OK magazine

`a pacy mix of lifestyle envy, sexual intrigue and good old-fashioned
gossip. A real summer page-turner that will appeal to those far from
Notting Hell itself.' Easy Living

`An absolute riot' The Sunday Telegraph

`A wicked social comedy of manners' Tatler

`Johnson is a frantically funny writer' The Scotsman

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416532072
• ISBN 13: 9781416532071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352