Book description
It was Patrick's idea that they should have the tennis party. After
all, he has the perfect setting - the White House, bought out of his
bonuses as an investment banker. He hasn't actually told Caroline, his
brash and beautiful wife, what the real reason for the party is. She
is glad to welcome Stephen and Annie, their impoverished former
neighbours, less glad to see newly wealthy Charles and his
aristocratic wife Cressida, and barely able to tolerate the deadly
competitive Don and Valerie.
But as the first ball is served over the net it signals the start of
two days of tempers, shocks, revelations, the arrival of an uninvited
guest, and the realization that the weekend is about anything but tennis.
Sophie Kinsella is an international bestselling writer and former
financial journalist. She is the author of the number one bestsellers
Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?
and Twenties Girl, as well as the hugely popular
Shopaholic novels, the first of which is now the hit Hollywood
movie Confessions of a Shopaholic.
As Madeleine Wickham she has written seven bestselling novels. She
lives in London with her husband and children.
