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If I Were You
If I Were You
Nov 27, 2025 8:51 PM

Author:Julia Llewellyn Smith

If I Were You

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 ...

Reviews

A masterpiece

—— The Times

A magnificent, Tolstoyan saga... unmissable

—— Cosmopolitan

Shamelessly entertaining

—— Guardian

Naguib Mahfouz's CAIRO TRILOGY puts all contemporary writers in the shade. He is the Arab Tolstoy

—— Simon Sebag Montefiore , Twitter

An engrossing work, whose author can take his place alongside any European master you care to name

—— The Sunday Times

Teeming with life and contention... it promises riches

—— Independent

Brilliantly combines the secret vocabulary of Islamic metaphysics with the techniques of the Egyptian novel

—— Times Literary Supplement

A 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'

—— Newsday

Genuine wit and charm

—— Image

Witty novel about life and love after divorce, Hollywood-style.

—— Daily Express

A bitchy and entertaining look at life in La-La Land

—— The Sun

A perfect poolside read

—— New Woman
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