Author:Julia Llewellyn Smith

My name is Natasha
I have a successful career
A gorgeous penthouse flat
Trouble is, I'm in love with a man who already has a girlfriend
My name is Sophie
I have a man I love
He's gorgeous and we've been together four years
Trouble is, he won't propose
Natasha and Sophie met when they were eleven and rapidly became best friends. Natasha was always the more intelligent and Sophie the more beautiful, but it never came between them ... until now. Suddenly the tiny, niggling, inescapable fact of their envy for each other's life is trying to surface and a number of casualties are getting caught in the crossfire. Is a fading love worth clinging to at all costs? Is marriage the be-all-and-end-all? And can an affair ever be fulfilling?
Natasha and Sophie need to learn that they might be hunting for happiness in all the wrong places ...
Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there
—— Matt Bates , WH Smith TravelAn exciting tale and Jean Plaidy tells it with accurate knowledge
—— Times Literary SupplementPlaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama
—— New York TimesJean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticiy of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read novelists
—— Sunday TimesFull-blooded, dramatic, exciting
—— ObserverOne of England's foremost historical novelists
—— Birmingham MailAn excellent story
—— Irish PressA penetrating and thoughtful study of Catherine de'Medici
—— Northern Daily Telegraph'Irrestistably engaging'
—— Kirkus'Witty and intelligent...just the thing for a lazy summer day'
—— NewsdayGenuine wit and charm
—— ImageWitty novel about life and love after divorce, Hollywood-style.
—— Daily ExpressA bitchy and entertaining look at life in La-La Land
—— The SunA perfect poolside read
—— New Woman






