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The bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Everyone Worth Knowing returns with the story of three best friends who vow to change their entire lives...and change them fast. Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. She was this close to the ring and the baby she's wanted her... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Leigh Eisner: Leigh a successful editor in a famous publishing house, has a number of obssessions, always eager to always do the right thing
- Adriana De Souza: Add a description of this character.
- Emmy: Emmy has one main dream: to have a loving husband and lots of babies, yet always ends up with a heart break after long term relationship
- Russell: Leigh's picture perfect fiance
- Jesse Chapman: An awarding winning, bad boy, novelist
- Duncan: Emmy's Ex-Boyfriend
- Toby Baron: Famous movie director
- Mackenzie: Assistant editor at Marie Claire
- Otis: The annoying parrot
- Henry: Leigh's boss
- Gilles: Adriana's famous hairstylist
- Paul: A man Emmy meets in Paris
- Rafi: Israeli man Emmy meets in Tel-Aviv
- Kevin: Emmy sister, Izzie's husband
- George: A guy Emmy meets in Miami.
- Yani: Yoga teacher
- Catherine: The host at a party Toby and Adriana attend
- Chef Massey: Emmy's employer
- Jack
- Mama
- Mr. Baron
- Brianna: Emmy's ex-boyfriend, Duncan, leaves her for Brianna.
- Elaine
- William
- Marcia
- Tuti: Jesse Chapman's wife
- Mark
- Tobias
- Dr. Kim: Emmy's doctor
Quotes edit
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“God, that seemed like forever ago…the seven, eight years felt like a lifetime.”
Leigh -
“While her friends seemed enamored with the baubles, Emmy wondered if they even realized how lucky they were to have the loving men behind the jewelry. She would happily forsake all the diamonds in the world if she could just find the one person who was meant for her. Or, really, keep the one who was meant for her.”
Emmy
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Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.
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She didn’t necessarily want him to stay, she just wanted him to want to stay.
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“You know what they say, darling—if you can’t have a happy home, wreck one.”
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“First of all, girls, ‘one-night stands’ are for sad little people who meet in Atlantic City casinos or Midwestern hotels. ‘Hooking up’ is what drunken sorority girls do after their spring formals. We have affairs. Fabulous, sexy, spontaneous affairs.
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They sometimes require a gentle touch. Learn when to use a firm grip and when to cover it in velvet and they are yours forever.”
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If every single person refused to work with someone they’d slept with, the entire world economy would shut down.”
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“It’s a complete myth that once a man has sex with you he’ll lose interest. In fact, it should be just the opposite: If you’re doing your job well, it will make him want you more. It’s all about finding the balance of mysterious and unavailable and challenging with sensual and seductive and sexy. You make them work for it—not just the first time, but again and again and again—and they’ll love you forever.”
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“Friendly, outgoing, engaging, charming, whatever you want to call it, it still translates into ‘available and desperate’ when you’re the one who initiates contact.”
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She bit into a cookie and remembered all the years in her early and mid-twenties that she had wanted this scene so badly: the doting boyfriend, the romantic late-night picnic, the comfortable apartment filled with all the things she loved. Back then it had felt almost impossible or, at least, very far away; now she had it all, but the reality didn’t feel anything like the fantasy.
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“Why, me, of course. You haven’t seen a man enjoy a blowjob until you’ve watched a guy who hasn’t gotten one in ten years.”
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Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- New York
- Manhattan
- Paris
- Israel
- Miami
- Upper East Side
- Los Angeles
- Bali
- Angelina
- States
- Greenwich
- Hollywood
- Bonaire
First Sentence edit
When Leigh’s doorbell rang unexpectedly at nine on a Monday night, she did not think, Gee, I wonder who that could be. She thought, Shit. Go away.
Table of Contents edit
panties is a vile word
if you think it’s too big, you don’t deserve
it once they’re in, they’re real
mommy drinks because i cry
all cocky confidence and killer smiles
count him as south america
friendly really means available and desperate
three men do not a femme fatale make
the perfect-for-right-now relationship
may her huge, perky boobs give her back pain by thirty
it’d be nauseating if it weren’t so goddamn cute
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lauren Weisberger (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0743290119
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 0743290119
Page Count: 288
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3623.E453 C48 2009
- Dewey: 813.6
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