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Pants on Fire
2000
First Published
3.50
Average Rating
338
Number of Pages
A broken heart is hard to mend. And a good heart is practically impossible to find...When Georgia Abbott's fiancé cheats on her, she's left with a broken heart and the reality of her humdrum life in London. Until someone tells her about a job on Glow in Sydney. That's Sydney, Australia - where the welcome is as warm as the weather and the men look like Mel Gibson, but taller. What's she got to lose? So Georgia packs up and ships out Down Under. And at first things seem promising, as she's swept up in a whirl of A-list parties, dancing, and debauchery. But while Australian water may go down the plughole the other way, Australian men are - oh dear - starting to look all too familiar...
Avg Rating
3.50
Number of Ratings
1,357
5 STARS
19%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
34%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

Maggie Alderson
Maggie Alderson
Author · 14 books

Maggie Alderson is a British-Australian author (that’s how I’m supposed to write it, but I’m not very good at talking about myself in the third person, so I’m going to can it). I was born in London, brought up in rural Staffordshire, and educated at the University of St Andrews - and then at the University of Life, Sydney campus. I spent many years covering the fashion shows in Paris, Milan, London etc which is the best people watching ever (I had to remind myself to look at the models…). An obsessed bookworm since childhood, all I wanted to do from the age of six was write books. I also hoovered up every magazine and newspaper I could lay my hands on and by the time I was a teenager was determined to edit a magazine and be a newspaper columnist. I have edited five magazines (including British ELLE) and my Style Notes column ran in the Good Weekend colour supplement for twelve years, as well as being syndicated to The Times. My first novel Pants on Fire was published in 2000 and was a bestseller in the UK and Australia. I’ve written eight more novels since, which have been translated into many languages. I’ve also published four collections of my columns and a children’s book called Evangeline, the Wish Keeper’s Helper, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Award in Australia. My latest novel is called The Scent of You and is the story of perfume blogger Polly, facing up to a crisis in her marriage – and her sense of who she is - told through a filter of her obsession with perfumes (and also featuring very well dressed, seriously damaged, red-hot men, which are my speciality). The book was inspired by attending perfume events in London and realising just how many fascinating people there are in that world (and a fair few brilliant nutters). You can read my heroine's blog fragrantcloud.net

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