BRIT LIT
Funnny Contemporary Fiction from "Across the Pond"
 
Love, Rosie

by Cecelia Ahern

What happens when two people who are meant to be together can't seem to get it right?
 
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Every Woman for Herself

by Trisha Ashley

Charlotte (Charlie) Rhymer's husband wants a divorce. Charlie isn't sure what she wants, but after the incident with the frying pan, even she has to concede that their differences may be irreconcilable after all.
Hens Dancing

by Raffaella Barker

Meet Venetia Summers, a charmingly disorganized, thirtysomething single mom who's doing her best to raise her kids and keep her sanity in a rural English cottage amidst a maelstrom of pets, plants, and wacky relatives. 
The Little Lady Agency
by Hester Browne

Out of work for the third time in 18 months, Melissa decides to open an agency and hire out her organizational skills to bachelors who don't have a "little lady" to take care of their shopping, social calendars, and other domestic chores.
Separate Beds

by Elizabeth Buchan

Tom and Annie's kids have grown up, the mortgage is do-able, and they're about to get a gorgeous new, state-of-the-art French stove. Life is good -- or so it seems. Beneath the veneer of professional success and domestic security, their marriage is crumbling.
 
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Amanda's Wedding

by Jenny Colgan

One woman's mad dash to put a stop to the wedding of her old school friend who's the complete opposite of the sweet Scottish lord she's marrying.
 
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Miss You

by Kate Eberlen

what if you just walked by the love of your life, but didn't even know it?
 
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Tuscany For Beginners

by Imogen Edwards-Jones
 
Belinda Smith has found her very own Tuscan valley in the sun, her own too, too divine bed and breakfast.  Everything is coming up sunflowers and olive groves for La Contessa of the Valley. Life couldn’t be more perfecto!  Until, that is, the arrival of Lauren ...
A Perfect Proposal

by Katie Fforde

Eagerly visiting New York to escape her suffocating family, young Englishwoman Sophie clashes with her hostess's arrogant grandson, who follows her back to England with an unconventional proposal. 
 
Bridget Jones's Diary
 
by Helen Fielding

With it's roots in a London newspaper column written by Fielding, this is really the book that catapulted "Chick Lit" into hugely popular genre, which, in turn, spawned all the various "subgenres" of Chick Lit.
 
Watermelon

by Marian Keyes

"February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated."
 
Twenties Girl

by Sophie Kinsella

Normal professional twenty-something young women don't get visited by ghosts. Or do they?
 
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Behaving Like Adults

by Anna Maxted

Holly is a charming British twentysomething who runs her own upstart dating agency, Girl Meets Boy. Although she has broken up with fiance Nick - who, except for lack of maturity and direction, seems utterly darling - they still cohabit in the London house they own (Holly has been too busy to give him the boot).
A Good Year for the Roses

by Gil McNeil

London-based Molly Taylor, a newly divorced mother of three boys, inherits her late Aunt Helena's manor house and bed-and-breakfast, located on the Devon coast in England. Her inheritance includes caring for her Uncle Bertie, a former navy officer, and his pesky parrot.
 
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Paris for One and Other Stories

by Jojo Moyes

Nell Simmons has gone out on a limb for once and booked a spontaneous romantic weekend in Paris with her boyfriend, Pete. By the time Pete admits that he's not just late but not coming at all, it's too late for Nell to turn back.
 
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Persuading Annie

by Melissa Nathan
After years as a sweet, good-natured pushover, Annie has had to face up to three hard truths: You've got to be tough to succeed.
Sometimes your meddling loved ones are right about your worthless, no-good boyfriend being worthless and no good.
The only reliable thing about men is that they're totally unreliable.
 
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I Don't Know How She Does it : the Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
 
by Allison Pearson

 London career woman and mother Kate Reddy, begins her day at 1:37 one morning as Kate, disdainful of stay-at-home moms but intimidated by their homemaking skills, alters store-bought pies to pass off as homemade at her daughter's school the next day.
 
 
One Day in December

by Josie Silver

On a winter day in London, Laurie spots Jack from her bus home and he sparks a feeling in her so deep that she spends the next year searching for him. Her roommate and best friend, Sarah, unknowingly ends the search by finding Jack and falling for him herself.
The Wedding Girl

by Madeleine Wickham

As Milly Havill prepares for her elaborate wedding to the precisely perfect man, she doesn't give a thought to her frivolous past-not until the photographer mentions seeing her on her previous wedding day 10 years before.
Out of the Blue

by Isabel Wolff

Believing she has the perfect marriage and husband, weathergirl Faith Martin unexpectedly finds her world spinning out of control when her stylish best friend makes a casual remark that forces Faith to question her husband's fidelity.
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