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Can You Keep a Secret? | 
 enlarge | Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  424 reviews
Sales Rank: 5193
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0385338082
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN: 9780385338080
ASIN: 0385338082
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Condition: Good; Paperback-This book is a First Printing with a full number line! The cover shows minor shelf and edge wear. Light water damage on lower page edges. There are no markings inside or out. This book is not a remainder and is not an ex-Library book. Satisfaction Guaranteed!!
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With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:
Secrets from her mother:
I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.
Sammy the goldfish in my parents’ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.
Secrets from her boyfriend:
I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.
I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.
From her colleagues:
When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.
Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world:
My G-string is hurting me.
I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.
Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.
But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from
the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse—Until they do.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 So cute and funny August 17, 2008
The story is pretty simple: Emma is a marketing assistant and so far she had no real business success. She gets send to a meeting in Glasgow and that could be her big chance to get a promotion. She totally blows it, gets a little tipsy at the airport and when she thinks her plane is going to crash down she tells all her secrets to the guy sitting next to her. She really spills all: from what underwear she is wearing, to her first sex, and that she waters her co-workers plant with orange juice.
She is totally embarrassed when she arrives at the office on monday and finds out that the stranger is the owner of the company she is working for. He took a year off after his best friend died but now he is back in London to check out what has been going on in his company while he was gone.
The story was a little predictable but darn funny. I loved how Jack was making smartass comments and teased her about her secrets. And of course they hook up and he is just the sweetest guy ever. But he also keeps a big secret from Emma and that causes some tension between them. That was so far my favorite of Kinsellas' books because it had so many ROFL moments and I just liked Emma so much because she was funny and a "normal" girl.
 C+ August 8, 2008
Surprisingly laugh-out-loud in its entirety, Kinsella further extends her pastiche for chick lit in this decent piece about lies and their consequences. That message is decidedly transparent and unsubtle, yet the heroine, Emma, is intriguingly relatable and funny. Her interactions with people around them are humorous and come close to the Department of Deadpan. It was also nice to see a somewhat strong, middle-class female character in the midst of hundreds of books in the same genre that deal with impossibly unreal women. Emma is an every woman. Thus, the novel succeeds in portraying a larger than life situation that would otherwise be unrealistic. However, the male protagonist is a bit ridiculous, as is the premise and the ultimate outcome. The requisite "happy ending" would have been nicer if it weren't so expected and rote. Every character gets their just desserts, be it good or bad. Kinsella gives us no surprises, yet she does deliver humor that is fresh and fun.
FUNNY!!! July 29, 2008
One of the funniest books I have read! I would love to see this book turned into a movie!
This book should not be a secret July 29, 2008
This was my first introduction to Sophie Kinsella. In this book, Emma spills all her secrets to the man sitting next to her on the plane. What she does not realize is who he is and how he will be involved in her life.
This is a laugh out loud book that you can not stop reading. It takes you back to her job, where you can get a sense of all her secrets.
 Less impressive than I expected... (three and a half stars) July 26, 2008
A big fan of Shopaholic, I got this book the minute it was available in my library (I rarely buy books I'm not 100% sure I'll read again). Frankly, I expected a bit more. Emma just seemed identical to Becky without the shopping need, yet I didn't "feel her pain" her as I did with Becky. The writing were great as usual, the plot a bit predictable. As a whole, certainly not about to produce a series.
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