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Simply Divine [Paperback]

Wendy Holden
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)

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Book Description

8 July 1999
Champagne D`Vyne is a celebrity socialite with a charmed life and a mania for men, money and fame. Jane is a twenty-something journalist with an ordinary life - man stress, work stress and a spare tyre that won’t go away. As their contrasting worlds become bizarrely intertwined, Jane realises that the blonde, busty and blatantly ambitious Champagne will let nothing come between her and what she wants. Least of all Jane.

Meanwhile, in a crumbling country manor in the West Country, everything’s falling apart for Jane’s best friend Tally. The family seat is collapsing - money’s too tight to mansion - her brother the heir has gone AWOL and her mother’s a New Age hippy with a Red Indian boyfriend called Big Horn. Tally desperately needs a rich and handsome husband to save her beloved ancestral home.

Then Jane gets a brilliant new job. A knight on a gold chargecard turns up for Tally. Life finally looks blissful for both of them. But Champagne D`Vyne has other ideas...

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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Review; New Ed edition (8 July 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9999986277
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747261292
  • ASIN: 0747261296
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,258,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Twentysomething, magazine journalist Jane has enough stress--breaking up with her boyfriend, falling in love with a man who leaves the country the next morning and the spare tyre around her waist--without the added headache of the glamorous socialite Champagne D'Vyne, who pops effervescently into her life and proceeds to sour everything as their lives become inextricably intertwined.

Meanwhile, her best friend Tally's crumbling ancestral mansion in Lower Bulge is about to be sold off unless Jane can find a rich knight to come to Tally's rescue and, while she's at it, nab one for herself. The reader is launched into the world of double-barrelled socialites like the Front-Bottomes and Uppe-Timmselves, and the offices of the "Gorgeous" and "Fabulous" magazine worlds where only girls with slim calves and tinted bikini lines get onto the front covers.

Simply Divine sparkles with Wendy Holden's sharp, acerbic wit as she bursts the bubble of high society's extravagant pretensions and leaves the reader choking at some of her more shocking sentiments:

"How could [Tally] see that far? ... This honing of the optics came, Jane imagined, courtesy of the genetic inheritance of generations of Venerys scanning the horizons of their vast acreage. Being grand, however, had its downsides too. Like the girls at Fabulous, Tally had always suffered the most agonising of periods. Blue blood was evidently more painful."
Wendy Holden holds nothing back in her outrageous satire on the rich and frivolous, from psychics to New Age ceremonies to modern, "glossy" bibles, she exposes the shallowness behind the façade --Nicola Perry

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'Just the thing if you need something frothy, frivolous, and fun' -- Harpers & Queen

'Literary equivalent of a post-Christmas-lunch box' -- Marie-Claire

'There are some fabulous one-liners and Ab-Fab style send ups of the more ludicrous side of journalism. Great fun' -- Woman's Journal

'Well observed and witty' -- The Mirror

'Wickedly witty' -- Esquire

'Witty, well-observed, with some jolly super, quite unforgivable, puns' -- bad heir

'You can't help but be entertained' -- Options

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Title says it all! 10 Sep 2004
Format:Paperback
A delightful chic flic! I'm not much a a reader because I don't get the time but this book was rarely closed! Filled with light wit and humour and some fantastic characters. The way Holden portrays the character Champagne is brilliant - I think everyone knows someone just like her! The ending has a real twist that I was never expecting. Holden certainly kept me smiling with this divine book! Definatly my fave story yet from Wendy!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Less than divine... 17 Feb 2000
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Format:Paperback
I was disappointed with this book. From the reviews, I expected a humorous, frolicking story. Instead, the book is predictable and, at best, mildly amusing. The character names are beyond belief. This is an OK book for times when you're stuck on a train or airplane. The Bridget Jones books are much better written and funnier.
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Format:Paperback
I bought this book with high hopes of an amusing read but found the characters were totally unbelievable and predictable. I still have 100 or so pages to go and have no incentive to continue
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favourite girly books
One of my favourite girly books, mad characters, fun story, lovely to get lost in the world of Champagne Devine!
Published 4 months ago by tilliemint
5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous!!
simply divine is the first wendy holden book i have read,and it was a very good story line,very humorous and with such a lovely ending! i would recommend it,a good holiday read .
Published 21 months ago by mrs l chadwick
1.0 out of 5 stars Awful!
Oh dear is all I can say in regards to this `novel'. Being an avid fan of chick- lit and considering it somewhat of a guilty pleasure I expect to find the odd shallow character and... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Tess
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulously Funny
This book made me laugh out loud on a train... Champagne D'Vyne is a fabulous creation of a character, and when added to a great story and Wendy Holdens witty one liners, it makes... Read more
Published on 14 April 2011 by babyd
5.0 out of 5 stars The queen of chicklit!
I'm never disappointed with Wendy's writing. She always entertains, with her fast paced stories, likable characters and witty observations. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2011 by Janie
5.0 out of 5 stars quick and quality
Very pleased with the condition the book was in and how quick the delivery was
Published on 1 Aug 2010 by Leo
3.0 out of 5 stars Just one question.........................
What is Wendy Holden's obsession with crumbling mansions??? There's one in almost all her books!!
Still I liked this book tho could have strangled Tally, but loved Champagne,... Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2009 by DebzM
4.0 out of 5 stars Good fun
First, keep in mind one thing: chick lit is about one thing, and one thing only - escapism. This is not literature by any stretch of the imagination. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2008 by E. Samara
1.0 out of 5 stars Hell on paper
I wanted so much to finish this book as it was lent to me, but I found in the end I lost the will to live. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2007 by Mrs. K. Smith
1.0 out of 5 stars absolutely awful
The only reason I have given this book any stars at all is because I can't give it 0.
This was one of the worst books I have ever attempted to read... Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2006 by Beauty on the Fire
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