Anna’s boyfriend Seb is impossibly handsome, impossibly rich and generally just impossible. When eventually he dumps her, she vows to give up men and throw herself into her career. Which is how she ends up working for Cassandra. The social climber from hell, Cassandra has a huge house in Kensington, a philandering rock star husband and the spawn of Satan for a son. So when desperate-to-escape Anna meets dashing Jamie, charming heir to a castle in Scotland, she can’t believe her luck. And she probably shouldn’t...
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Becoming a writer is the dream of Oxbridge graduate Anna but a flurry of CV mail-outs draws nothing but blanks. However, when the poisonous novelist Cassandra takes her on, her luck appears to be changing. But, soon, Anna is in a domestic hell--a glorified au pair coping with Cassandra's philandering, ageing rock-star husband. So when Anna meets the handsome Jamie, a Scottish laird who is heir to a Balmoral-style castle, she is exhilarated at the thought of escape from her grisly circumstances. Her luck, though, is about to run true to form.
Wendy Holden's Bad Heir Day is a blackly comic anatomising of society life, with a liberal sprinkling of hilarious moments and a cast of characters that have a fully realised solidity, while still being several sizes larger-than-life. The superbitch Cassandra is a particularly memorable monster, spitting out cutting putdowns in a fashion that would give Bette Davis pause. Having honed an analytical eye working for Harpers & Queen, Holden made a splash with the similarly witty Simply Divine. This one takes the Wodehousian flair of her debut book and adds a more irresistibly plotted narrative to its corrosive picture of the glossy magazine world. Holden's take on modern manners among the Upper Crust is always clear-eyed and extremely funny, whatever the situation:
Sex scenes had been Cassandra's stock in trade. She was celebrated among the commuting classes for the ability to produce erections on the Circle Line at seven in the morning, "here was a writer at the peak of her powers." But for the moment, those powers had deserted her. Cassandra doubted now she'd be able to produce erections among a gang of footballers being lapdanced in Stringfellows.--BarryForshaw --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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'Tight plotting and controlled technique of a writer poised to become formidable in her field' (Sunday Telegraph )
'There are some fabulous one-liners and A-Fab style send ups of the more ludicrous side of journalism. Great fun' (Woman's Journal )
'It is rare, outside Wodehouse, that comic novels live up to their titles, but SIMPLY DIVINE is just that, to borrow from the Ab Fab critical lexicon. Wendy Holden writes a sort of profiterole prose, with paragraphs so funny and readable you worry about their calorie content' (The Sunday Times )
'Just the thing if you need something frothy, frivolous, and fun' (Harpers & Queen )
'Literary equivalent of a post-Christmas-lunch box' (Marie-Claire )
'Well observed and witty' (The Mirror )
'Wickedly witty' (Esquire )
'Witty, well-observed, with some jolly super, quite unforgivable, puns' (Mail on Sunday )
'You can't help but be entertained' (Options ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'There are some fabulous one-liners and A-Fab style send ups of the more ludicrous side of journalism. Great fun' (Woman's Journal )
'It is rare, outside Wodehouse, that comic novels live up to their titles, but SIMPLY DIVINE is just that, to borrow from the Ab Fab critical lexicon. Wendy Holden writes a sort of profiterole prose, with paragraphs so funny and readable you worry about their calorie content' (The Sunday Times )
'Just the thing if you need something frothy, frivolous, and fun' (Harpers & Queen )
'Literary equivalent of a post-Christmas-lunch box' (Marie-Claire )
'Well observed and witty' (The Mirror )
'Wickedly witty' (Esquire )
'Witty, well-observed, with some jolly super, quite unforgivable, puns' (Mail on Sunday )
'You can't help but be entertained' (Options ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By misty
Format:Hardcover
I persevered with this book because I thought it had to get better, but it didn't. My main gripe with it is that it's all so unbelievable. Some of the main characters were so over the top it was ridiculous. I know it's meant to be a comedy, but I didn't really find it that funny. The plot wasn't particularly rivetting either.
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By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
What an absolutely fantastic read...side splittingly funny. I thoroughly enjoyed Simply Divine and desperatly awaited Ms Holden's second novel and, boy, was it worth the wait. Hilarious from start to finish, this is one book I know I will read again and again and can be assured that I will still laugh out loud on the bus! Please, Please don't make me wait too long for Ms Holden's third book!
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By Ms. El Jones
Format:Paperback
i love a chick lit, but they have to be done well, i find if you dont care what happens to the character then the book is a bad one. i was bored by the storyline and thought the plot was rubbish and not at all interesting, i tried to finish the book and have got to the point where there is a chapter left and i have read many books inbetween and cant bring myself to finish it because, truth be told i just dont like it. i love a book where i can't put it down and am willing something to happen and i find with this one it leave me emotionless and quite frankly uninterested.
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Brilliant!
Such a lovely and funny book! My husband enjoyed it even if is a book for women mainly. Quality was good, too, looked like new.
Published 3 months ago by Cory
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Good book day
Hilarious, clever, brilliant! I read this book ages ago and bought this particular copy for my German friend to help her with her English. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2011 by Mr. S. D. Berla
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Very Clever
I chose to read this book because I had enjoyed "The Wives of Bath" and to begin with I thought it was less good. However I was soon drawn in. Read more
Published on 20 Nov 2010 by Shouna Falconer
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terriberri
I really can not believe people have given this book such bad reviews!!! This was the first book of Wendy's I have read and it made me go and buy 3 more!! Its great!! Read more
Published on 14 May 2010 by Terri Berry
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wendy's best book, one of my favourites
Absolutely loved this book it was hilarious, can't believe it got a bad review on here!!!
Cassandra is a fab character, hysterical and made the book shine. Read more
Cassandra is a fab character, hysterical and made the book shine. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2009 by DebzM
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Nanny Mafia
This is my favourite of WH's books so far, largely for some of the brilliant mini-scenes. I have to agree 100% with the reviewer who wanted to give Alice a bloody good shake: yep,... Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2008 by R. Griffiths
1.0 out of 5 stars
Slow and boring!
This was also my first Wendy Holden book and have found it very disappointing! Its slow to get into and the plot is very disjointed and lacks detail. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2008 by C. L. Scott
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth reading
This was the first Wendy Holden book that I read, and the last. I skipped huge chunks of this book just to get to the end. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2008 by JellyBeans
3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay read
When I picked up this book I thought from reading the back cover that it was going to be a really funny and enjoyable read. In some ways it was but I found that it dragged a bit. Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2007 by K. Gardner
1.0 out of 5 stars
Elongated synopsis
This book is purely an elongated synopsis. It glosses over relationships. for instance, Anna met Jamie, the nexst minute they are engaged without us being told anything in depth... Read more
Published on 1 July 2007 by Horselover
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