Showing results for "Coco" in Literature & Fiction

Since Coco Pinchard found first husband Daniel in bed with another woman, she hasn't just picked up the pieces: she's now a best-selling author married to her hunky soul-mate Adam. She feels stronger and wiser and surely the second time round she'll have learnt from her mistakes?

After a tumultuous divorce, Coco Pinchard has found love with the gorgeous, hunky, four-years-younger-than-her-so-technically-a-toy-boy Adam. Her career as an author is finally a success, and she has fabulous friends in Christopher, a neurotic middle-aged socialite, and Marika, a slightly alcoholic dog walker.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'He left you some money.' Mickey felt her mouth drop open. The first half of that sentence had rung clear and true. The second half had not. Her father was one to take, not give. After he left them for his new family, Mickey resolved never to think of her father again...

Coco Pinchard always dreamed of being a successful writer, but then life got in the way. She married young, had a son, and put her dreams on hold. But now she's 40, and her first novel is about to be published! Her husband Daniel has greyed nicely into a silver fox, and her son Rosencrantz is all grown up. Shouldn't it be time to enjoy life? That is, until the annual family Christmas when her hideous in-laws come to stay, and Coco opens her gift from Daniel. It's not the jewelry she chose, but an iPhone.

It's December 1992, and children are going crazy for the Tracy Island toy - almost as crazy as the parents! Christmas day is fast approaching and Coco Pinchard is desperately trying to track one down for her four-year-old son Rosencrantz. Throw into the mix a horrible boss, a lazy husband, and the prospect of her in-laws arriving for the festivities, and Coco wishes she could cancel Christmas and sail off to a desert island somewhere - preferably with the gorgeous-yet-unattainable Tom from work.

Ein Heiratsschwindler und Frauenmörder treibt sein Unwesen in Paris, doch die Polizei tappt im Dunkeln. Erst als eine Frau, die ihm entkommen konnte, behauptet, den Mann an seinem Eau de Toilette wiedererkennen zu können, öffnet sich eine Spur, die für keine Geringere als die Herstellerin von Chanel No 5 von Bedeutung ist: Coco Chanel. Nach der Trennung von ihrem Geliebten Dimitri Romanow und einer kurzen Affäre mit Picasso ist sie zudem einsam. Wird die Hobbydetektivin das nächste Opfer sein?

C'est dans un roman de Françoise Sagan emprunté à la bibliothèque que Catherine trouve un marque-page bien particulier : y sont inscrits le nom d'un homme - Jean-Philippe - et son numéro de téléphone, suivis de l'invitation "Appelle quand tu veux". Célibataire mais anéantie par sa dernière relation amoureuse, Catherine se lance dans un projet que son amie Margaux situe "à mi-chemin entre le plus fou des désespoirs et le plus admirable des espoirs". Appeler ce Jean-Philippe.