It Could Be You (Can you Keep A Secret? - Sophie Kinsella)

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Product:	Can you Keep A Secret? - Sophie Kinsella
Date:	13/05/03 (178 review reads)
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Advantages: Funny, Easy reading, Silly

Disadvantages: Not serious literature

I have two friends called Emma. One has gigantic boobs and worked in the same resort as me last summer. The other works in marketing in London, and has normal sized breasticles. She’s also the main character in Kinsella’s latest novel. It’s strange, isn’t it, how you get to know fictitious people, and not just get to know them even – get to like them, want to help them, root for them when things get bad. Kinsella (author of the Shopaholic trilogy) writes in a chatty, laid back style, and you can’t help but get involved and feel as though you really know the people she’s telling you about.

Emma’s a normal enough gal. Certainly not the type to start ranting on about her personal life to strangers on a plane. Only silly people would do that. But when you’re a nervous flyer, and you encounter the worst turbulence the airline’s seen in years, well that’s a different story, isn’t it? Thinking you’re about to die, you might well waffle on to the guy beside you because he’s a stranger, so if you survive, you’ll never see him again, and if you die, well, you’re dead, so it doesn’t matter. Sounds like a simple enough plan, but what if there’s a problem. What if, as often happens in books, that simple stranger is a little more than meets the eye. What if, for example, he’s the big cheese of your company, rarely seen in the office, and therefore unlikely to be recognized? That would put you in a bit of a pickle really, wouldn’t it? What if, what if, what if?

Emma has the odd secret. Don’t we all, though? I know I do. There are sensible secrets (like not putting up my credit card details on this site for you all to use and abuse) and necessary secrets and silly secrets. Secrets are meant to be kept, not spilled, and although it’s horrid when someone tells something they’re not supposed to, it’s just as bad when you
do it accidentally yourself. Emma’s done this, and now she has to live with the consequences. The consequences of having someone in her life who knows everything, and I mean EVERYTHING about her – things you don’t even tell your nearest and dearest. Ouch. Emma’s got a lot to sort out, and fast, but with obstacle after obstacle in her way, has she even got a chance in doing so?

I bought this book without knowing anything about it apart from who it was written by. That’s how much I’ve enjoyed her other books, and how certain I was that I’d like this one too. I wasn’t wrong. It’s chick-lit at its finest – serious, entertaining, gripping, but most of all real. Emma could be each and every one of us, and you never forget that. It’s everything a book should be – non-put-downable, laugh-out-loud funny, not predictable in any way, shape or form. Definitely recommended.



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Can You Keep a Secret? By Sophie Kinsella

Published by Black Swan

ISBN: 0552771104

Price: £3.49 (rrp £6.99)

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