There’s the klutzy heroine with her ditzy moments, hunky male, challenging (read: mean) colleagues and sticky situations. In the ambitions and aspirations of Emma, she sees this as her opportunity to transcend from assistant to an executive. From then on, whenever they happen to cross each other’s paths, and this happens very, very often now, Jack always teases Emma with quips about the secrets that she relayed to him. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Kinsella’s] dialogue is sharp, even her minor characters are well drawn, and her parody of the marketing world is very funny.

She seemed sweet, but at times I wasn't sure where she was coming from, there was something 'going on' and I think the author was great in this confusion creating! I feel like I’ve achieved an understanding, perhaps a valuable observation that takes weight off my mind, rather than adds to everything else I have to carry in there. is author Sophie Kinsella's first "stand-alone" novel, published by Black Swan on March 1, 2003 in the United Kingdom. But on Monday morning, Emma's office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company's elusive CEO. I read this book around two weeks ago when I was still stuck in a reading slump (no thanks to the culprit that is One Day in December) and thankfully, it managed to get me out of that disastrous hell hole.Amongst the most famous and most beloved funny romance works of Sophie Kinsella, this book is frequently mentioned, and rightfully so. Lindsey, a forensic photographer for the Guards is at work at a crime scene close to Thornbury, a large house in the countryside outside Dublin and a place where she spent much of her teenage years. But Colby is smitten and for Caitlin, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, a blissful future awaits - marriage, a big house, a beautiful little boy.

I thought it was also rather adorable that he immediately zeroed in on Emma when he recognised her and I loved it when there’s a Jack and Emma scene.

Wickham lives in London with her husband, Henry Wickham (whom she met in Oxford), the headmaster of a boys' preparatory school. While some people want to talk about everything that happened in the past, others want to be sure that nobody ever talks about them again. When nervous flier Emma Corrigan thinks they are going to crash, her little corner of the plane becomes a confessional as she spills all of her little secrets to the random bloke sat next to her. She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Residence (1996), Swimming Pool Sunday (1997), The Gatecrasher (1998), The Wedding Girl (1999), Cocktails for Three (2000), and Sleeping Arrangements (2001).

her sex-life (from the loss of her virginity to her boyfriend’s failure to find her… uhhhh… okay, let’s leave it at that, shall we.She had a few good ideas, but overall her contribution to the story was being a plain-Jane with a phobia of flying. And when she realizes, thanks to an elderly relative, that the energy bars don't stick to dentures, she comes up with a simply brilliant idea that just might land her that big promotion! She’s not had much luck in her career choices, she has a cousin who takes the limelight and a boyfriend she’s completely in love with… or so she thinks. She knows how to create charming characters whose actions are believable and relatable, never recycling phrases or mishaps, and brings us back to her themes with subtly and brilliantly woven scenarios.