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Handbags And Gladrags
Nov 10, 2025 4:41 PM

Author:Maggie Alderson

Handbags And Gladrags

Emily Pointer would rather jog naked through Harvey Nichols' beauty hall than be seen with last season's handbag.

A fashion stylist with Chic magazine, Emily is a natural blonde, a effortless size 10, travels the world for work and gets 30% discount at Prada. As far as she's concerned, life is perfect.

So surely a night of wild sex with a hunky Australian photographer during the fashion show season in Milan will be just another fabulous experience to add to the package? Instead, Emily starts to discover that life can be messy- and the designer clothes in your closet can be squeezed out by the skeletons lurking in there too.

From the bestselling author of Pants on Fire and a former magazine editor herself, comes the delicious tale of a woman who was kidding herself that another Birkin bag was all she needed to achieve fulfilment.

Reviews

Admirable...Brilliant...Fulton is wincingly sharp on female materialism... [The characters] are drawn with emotional exactitude and profound tenderness

—— Daily Telegraph

Make no mistake, this is one of the finest debuts in years. It is a treasure of a debut, beautifully written, a humane reminder that money is not everything despite the message behind the American Dream

—— Sunday Tribune

A heartbreaking story of shattered dreams. A promising, emotionally-charged first novel

—— Big Issue

A rigorous portrayal of the contemporary family, More Than Enough is riveting in its emotional acuity and unflinching honesty

—— Peter Ho Davies

Fulton pins his characters painfully and honestly to the page

—— Guardian

McEwan's exploration of his characters' lives and secret emotions is a virtuoso display of fictional subtlety and intelligence

—— Observer

A virtuoso display

—— Observer

[An] exquisite and suspenseful novel

—— Week

A page-turner, with a plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night

—— Alain de Botton , Daily Mail

Taut with narrative excitement and suspense...a novel of rich diversity that triumphantly integrates imagination and intelligence, rationality and emotional alertness

—— Sunday Times

He is the maestro at creating suspense: the particular, sickening, see-sawing kind that demands a kind of physical courage from the reader to continue reading

—— New Statesman

A novel of rich diversity

—— Sunday Times

From the first page to the last, The Time Traveler's Wife works its unique magic... A beautiful, lyrical book

—— Tony Parsons , The Times

After I read it I wanted to share it with everybody, and even gave a copy to Madonna when she co-presented my show

—— Jo Whiley , Easy Living

Dark, unpredictable, incredibly clever and a modern romance

—— Cecelia Ahern , Grazia

A delight

—— Bookseller

A love affair that will totally capture your heart

—— Glamour Magazine

An irrestible romance

—— InStyle

A beautifully written, compulsive look at a couple trying to live an ordinary life in extraordinary circumstances

—— Image

An intriguing, often funny love story

—— Eve
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