Bookends: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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British sensationJane Green delivers a sparkling tale of old friends reunited and old jealousies rekindled.

Catherine Warner and Simon Nelson are best friends: total opposites, always together,and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatterbrained, messy, and—since she had her heartbroken a few years back—emotionally closed off. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, anddesperate for a man of his own. They live in London’s West Hampstead along with theirlifelong friends, Josh and Lucy, who are happily married with a devil-spawn childand a terrifying Swedish nanny, Ingrid.

All’s well (sort of) until the sudden arrivalof a college friend—the stunningly beautiful Portia, who is known for breaking they’ve grown up and grown apart from Portia, the four friends welcome herback into the fold. But does Portia have a hidden agenda or is she merely lookingto reconnect with old friends? Her reappearance soon unleashes a rollicking seriesof events that tests the foursome’s friendships to the limit and leaves them wonderingif a happy ending is in store.

Fortunately, Cath has plenty to take her mind offPortia’s schemes—like her gutsy decision to leave her job in advertising to fulfillher dream of opening a bookstore. And then there’s James, the sexy real-estate agentwho keeps dropping by even after the bookstore deal is done. With his irresistiblesmile and boyish charm could he be the one to melt Cath’s heart?

Told with JaneGreen’s captivating wit and flare, Bookends is above all a story about friendship—itstwists, turns and complications—and how it weathers the challenges of love, ambition,marriage, and, most of all, growing up. Warmhearted, sophisticated, and full of delicioussurprises, Bookends is Green’s most dazzling novel yet.