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Can You Keep a Secret?

Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

191 reviews
Sales Rank: 351

Media: Paperback
Pages: 329
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1

ISBN: 0276428153
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780552771108
ASIN: 0552771104

Publication Date: March 17, 2003
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Customer Reviews: Read 186 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars

I can't believe the overall rating for this book! June 13, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

I have always been a lover of chick lit, Marian Keyes, Jane Green, love 'em all for a bit of light reading. So I've been eyeing the Sophie Kinsella books for a while and finally picked up 'Can You Keep a Secret?'...oh dear. Unfortunately I cannot keep the secret of how much I hated this book! Sadly I am the sort of person who cannot leave a book once I've started it and so I stayed until the bitter end.

I have never written a negative review (I would simply stay silent) so I'm very sorry Ms Kinsella. However, I have had to suffer an entire book where the plotline is so painfully obvious and the heroine was such an utter moron that if I were to meet someone like that I would shake her by the shoulders and tell her to stop being such an idiotic wimp! As the reader, I am generally meant to feel some sort of sympathy or empathy with the main character in these types of book, not so in this case. Emma Corrigan is an imbecile and the type of 'friend' one would tend to avoid at all costs. Nothing the character does is remotely realistic and the only reason I give this book 1 star is because if Emma can end up with a rich successful boyfriend AND a promotion, then there is hope for us all! Although I really think this is stretching the meaning of 'fiction' to it's outer limits, maybe it should be reclassified under 'fantasy'.

Usually I share my books with my friends and family or give them to the charity shop when I've finished with them. This time I simply left it on the bus and walked away. Now I'm off to pick up some Aldous Huxley in attempt to get some of those brain cells back...

5 out of 5 stars

Just Brilliant June 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is fantastic, I read it in a day I just couldn't put it down, it's really touching and moving in parts. I think Sophie Kinsella is a fantasic author, one of my favorites, Im not one for reading but I ordered her whole collection and i'm getting though them pretty quick.....

5 out of 5 stars

love it love it love it love it May 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Well the title says it all! I didnt realise sophie kinsella had written this book until I just read it and Oh my god i was so not disappointed! I am a huge fan of the shopaholic series and can never wait for sophie to bring another book out - this book is sooooooooooooooooooooooo funny! Seriously all i can say is i love it ! praise for sophie - I havent read a disappointing book of hers yet!

5 out of 5 stars

Loved it May 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'm sorry I read this book so quickly, but I couldn't put it down. Emma, the main character, is fantastic. She is so funny. Her troubles start when, during a bad bout of turbulence on a plane she tells all her secrets to the man sitting beside her. He turns out to be the big boss of the company she works for, and he knows everything about her! Their romance is lovely. Emma learns that it's okay to be herself, and to be honest. She even starts telling people some home truths, which is well overdue. Jack learns to open up too. The ending is perfect.

5 out of 5 stars

Another book, another great review... April 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Sophie Kinsella is a legend - there is no other description. If you are new to the wonders of Miss Kinsella, this will make you a die-hard fan. Alright, the Shopaholic series is by far her best work but this little delight is nothing short of brilliant. Emma is a typical 20-something girl who wants the great things in life but lacks the confidence to seek them. She works for a global organisation as a marketing assistant along with her boyfriend and together they make the 'perfect couple' ..or do they? On a flight to Glasgow for a business meeting, she expereiences some turbulence and i'm not just talking about the flight. Suddenly she finds her self spilling her entire lifes worth of secrets to a total stranger and thats when Emma's life takes a bumpy ride straight into the arms of Jack Harper. The stranger on the plane? Well not so much a stranger when it turns out he is the founder and owner of that global organisation she works at...

Read it, you'll love it!!