Running in Heels: A Novel - Hardcover

Maxted, Anna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060393211 ISBN 13: 9780060393212

Publisher: Regan Books, 2001

Synopsis

To say that Babs has been my closest friend for sixteen years is rather like saying that Einstein was good at sums. We were blood sisters from the age of eleven (before my mother prized the razor out of Babs's, But now Babs, noisy and as fun as a day at the beach, is getting married. And Natalie Miller, twenty-seven, senior press officer for the London Ballet, panics. What happens when your best friend pledges everlasting love to someone else?

It doesn't help that Nat is dating a guy named Saul Bowcock. As the confetti flutters, her good-girl veneer cracks, and she falls into an alluringly unsuitable affair that spins her crazily out of control. Nat is on the rebound and allergic to the truth-about Babs's relationship, her boyfriend's ambition, her parents' divorce, and her golden-boy brother's little Australian secret. Her mother's lasagna and her roommate Andy's fuzzy slippers are also monstrous affronts. But what Nat really needs to face is the mirror-and herself....

Wickedly witty and refreshingly honest, Running in Heels is a hilarious look at the lies we tell ourselves-and the unwanted truths that only our best friends can tell us.

About this title

Review:

"Funny and inspiring, you'll be turning the pages 'til the small hours" (Company)

"Powerful without being didactic, moving without being sentimental, riotously comic without being superficial. Accomplished, well-written chick lit" (Daily Express)

"Warmth, humanity, and a great dollop of sympathetic humour" (Hello!)

From the Publisher:

ANNA MAXTED'S TRADEMARK MIX OF LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY AND POIGNANCY WORKS ITS MAGIC ONCE AGAIN IN HER MOVING, WARM AND TRUTHFUL SECOND NOVEL

About this edition

• Publisher: Regan Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060393211
• ISBN 13: 9780060393212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432