Can You Keep a Secret?: A Novel

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes a novel with the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism as her beloved Shopaholic series.

"Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter."--Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover

Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:

Secrets from her boyfriend: I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.

Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.

Secrets she wouldn't share with anyone in the world: 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. Or could they?

Praise for Can You Keep a Secret?

"Venturing beyond Saks and Barney's, the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. . . . Kinsella's down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter."--Publishers Weekly

"If laughing out loud in public places is your bag, be sure to pick up [Can You Keep a Secret?]. Heroine Emma Corrigan is going to be your new best friend."--Boston Herald

"Kinsella's timing is so perfect, her instincts so spot-on, that it's easy to . . . devour the book like the guilty pleasure it is."--Miami Herald

"Chick lit at its lightest and breeziest . . . filled with fabulous clothes, stalwart friends, and snotty enemies waiting to be taken down a peg."--Orlando Sentinel

"[Kinsella's] dialogue is sharp, even her minor characters are well drawn, and her parody of the marketing world is very funny."--Washington Post Book World

"[A] comedic frenzy of ill-fated events . . . punchy . . . fast-moving."--Rocky Mountain News

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368 pages

Average rating: 7.25

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SandyReads
Jul 17, 2024
5/10 stars
Fun and funny.
TheCleverReader
Feb 03, 2023
8/10 stars
This was a fun, and often giggle worthy, chick lit!
lmaoitsabby
Jan 12, 2023
10/10 stars
A heartwarming romantic comedy that debriefs on what seems as a chance encounter between two people in the most hysterical way, metamorphosizes into an irresistibly charming and a solicitous relationship.

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