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Champagne D'Vyne is a celebrity socialite with a charmed life and a mania for men, money and fame. Jane is a twenty-something journalist with an ordinary life - man stress, work stress and a spare tyre that won't go away. As their contrasting worlds become intertwined, Jane realises that the busty and blatantly ambitious Champagne will let nothing come between her and what she wants. Least of all Jane. Meanwhile, in a crumbling manor in the West Country, everything's falling apart for Jane's best friend Tally. The family seat is collapsing, her brother has gone AWOL and her mother's a New Age hippy with a Red Indian boyfriend called Big Horn. Tally desperately needs a rich and handsome husband to save her beloved ancestral home. Then Jane gets a brilliant new job. A knight on a gold chargecard turns up for Tally. Life finally looks blissful for both of them. But Champagne D'Vyne has other ideas...

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'There are some fabulous one-liners and Ab-Fab style send ups of the more ludicrous side of journalism. Great fun' -- Woman's Journal 'It is rare, outside Wodehouse, that comic novels live up to their titles, but SIMPLY DIVINE is just that, to borrow from the Ab Fab critical lexicon. Wendy Holden writes a sort of profiterole prose, with paragraphs so funny and readable you worry about their calorie content' -- The Sunday Times 'Just the thing if you need something frothy, frivolous, and fun' -- Harpers & Queen 'Wickedly witty' -- Esquire 'Literary equivalent of a post-Christmas-lunch box' -- Marie Claire 'Well observed and witty' -- Mirror 'You can't help but be entertained' -- Options 'Witty, well-observed, with some jolly super, quite unforgivable, puns' -- bad heir 'There are some fabulous one-liners and Ab-Fab style send ups of the more ludicrous side of journalism. Great fun' -- Woman's Journal 'It is rare, outside Wodehouse, that comic novels live up to their titles, but SIMPLY DIVINE is just that, to borrow from the Ab Fab critical lexicon. Wendy Holden writes a sort of profiterole prose, with paragraphs so funny and readable you worry about their calorie content' -- The Sunday Times 'Just the thing if you need something frothy, frivolous, and fun' -- Harpers & Queen 'Wickedly witty' -- Esquire 'Witty, well-observed, with some jolly super, quite unforgivable, puns' -- bad heir

* 'There are some fabulous one-liners and Ab-Fab style send ups of the more ludicrous side of journalism. Great fun' - Woman's Journal * 'It is rare, outside Wodehouse, that comic novels live up to their titles, but SIMPLY DIVINE is just that, to borrow from the Ab Fab critical lexicon. Wendy Holden writes a sort of profiterole prose, with paragraphs so funny and readable you worry about their calorie content' - The Sunday Times * 'Just the thing if you need something frothy, frivolous, and fun' - Harpers & Queen * 'Wickedly witty' - Esquire * 'Witty, well-observed, with some jolly super, quite unforgivable, puns' - bad heir

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Number one bestselling author Wendy Holden has written ten consecutive Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. A former journalist on the Sunday Times, Tatler and the Mail on Sunday, she contributes to a range of publications and is a TV and radio regular. She was a judge for the Costa 2013 Novel and Book of the Year Awards. Wendy lives with her husband and two children in Derbyshire. Visit her on her website www.wendyholden.net, or follow her on Twitter @Wendy_Holden and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wendyholdenauthor.

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