Anna Maxted Bücher

Helen Bradshaw isn't exactly living out her dreams. She's a lowly assistant editor at GirlTime magazine, she drives an ancient Toyota, and she has a history of choosing men who fall several thousand feet below acceptable boyfriend standard. Not to mention that she shares an apartment with a scruffy , tactless roommate, her best girlfriends are a little too perfect, and the most affectionate male in her life—her cat, Fatboy—occasionally pees in her underwear draw.Then Helen gets the telephone call she least expects: Her father has had a massive heart attack. Initially brushing off his death as merely an interruption in her already chaotic life (they were never very close, after all), Helen is surprised to find everything else starting to crumble around her. Her pushy mother is coming apart at the seams, a close friend might be heading toward tragedy, and, after the tequila incident, it looks as though Tom the vet will be sticking with Dalmatians. Turns out getting over it isn't going to be quite as easy as she thought.

„Sie liebten und sie schlugen sich“ - der Roman für alle, die Geschwister haben! Abgesehen davon, dass die Schwestern Cassie und Lizbet die gleiche improvisierte Erziehung genossen haben - Posaune spielen lernen, in den Zoo gehen, täglich an die frische Luft - haben sie nichts gemeinsam: Während Cassie die erfolgreiche Businessfrau ist, ist die mollige Lizbet eher eine Träumerin. Doch trotz der Gegensätze hatten sie immer ein gutes Verhältnis. Bis das Schicksal der einen Schwester genau das beschert, was sich die andere ein Leben lang wünschte, und die Geschwisterliebe auf eine harte Probe gestellt wird. Eine wunderbare Komödie darüber, dass kein Mann auf der Welt die Schwester ersetzen kann.

Eine Hochzeit kommt selten allein - bk93; Goldmann Verlag; Anna Maxted; pocket_book; 2003

Hannah Lovekin ahnt nichts Böses, als ihr Freund Jason sie zu einem romantischen Wochenendausflug einlädt. Doch dann ruiniert Jason den Kurzurlaub, indem er feierlich um ihre Hand anhält. Hannah hält vom Heiraten überhaupt nichts und schmettert seinen Antrag prompt ab. Doch als sich Jason vier Wochen später mit einer anderen verlobt, will Hannah ihn mit allen Mitteln zurückerobern. Dabei entdeckt sie allerdings, für wen ihr Herz wirklich schlägt …

A witty and intelligent novel about a young woman with serious commitment issues. Ideal for fans of Marian Keyes and Jane Green.

A fabulous new novel from the bestselling author of Behaving Like Adults. Hannah thinks you have to be absolutely nuts to want to get married. She s quite content with her life thank you very much -- her job as a private investigator for Hound Dog investigations, Jason, her boyfriend of ten years standing, and her relationship with her wonderful dad (pity her mum is such a disaster). Besides which, she s tried marriage once but she and Jack ended up divorced before she was 21: it was a bit much to ask a girl to stay faithful when she s scarcely out of her teens and the world of full of wonderful men. So when the long-suffering Jason proposes, Hannah doesn t think twice about turning him down. But would she have said no if she d known that only a month later Jason would be engaged to someone else? Is she really the emotional retard that Jason thinks she is? Maybe, just maybe, there s something in his theory that being committed means first coming to terms with your past. Brimming with the warmth, perception and understanding that characterizes Anna Maxted s writing, Being Committed mixes heartache with humour and is perhaps her finest novel yet. "From the Hardcover edition.""

"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 hand)." 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.

Holly Appleton knows that modern women don't believe in love, and yet she believes in love so much that she sets up a dating agency, Girl Meets Boy, to help others fulfil their romantic destiny and find true happiness.Holly's life is a growing success, yet her own love life is beginning to unravel. She has just become un-engaged to Nick. But Nick won't move on, he won't even move out. Holly decides Nick needs to be shocked into shifting and agrees to go on a date with one of the men who writes to her agency. And that's when the problems really start. Not only is Stuart Marshall not her type, he's deeply unpleasant and unaccustomed to taking no for an answer.Will Nick see sense? Will Holly discover what she really wants and needs? Will Girl Meet Boy survive? Maybe they will, when they stop acting like children and start behaving like adults.