Anna Maxted Books In Order

Getting Over It

Helen Bradshaw isn’t exactly living out her dreams. She’s a lowly assistant editor at GirlTime magazine, she drives an ancient Toyota, and she has a history of choosing men who fall several thousand feet below acceptable boyfriend standard. Not to mention that she shares an apartment with a scruffy , tactless roommate, her best girlfriends are a little too perfect, and the most affectionate male in her life her cat, Fatboy occasionally pees in her underwear draw. Then Helen gets the telephone call she least expects: Her father has had a massive heart attack. Initially brushing off his death as merely an interruption in her already chaotic life they were never very close, after all, Helen is surprised to find everything else starting to crumble around her. Her pushy mother is coming apart at the seams, a close friend might be heading toward tragedy, and, after the tequila incident, it looks as though Tom the vet will be sticking with Dalmatians. Turns out Getting Over It isn’t going to be quite as easy as she thought.

Running in Heels

‘To say that Babs has been my closest friend for sixteen years is rather like saying that Einstein was good at sums. We were blood sisters from the age of eleven before my mother prized the razor out of Babs’s hand.’But now Babs, noisy and as fun as a day at the beach, is getting married. And Natalie Miller, twenty seven, senior press officer for the London Ballet, panics. What happens when your best friend pledges everlasting love to someone else?It doesn’t help that Nat is dating a guy named Saul Bowcock. As the confetti flutters, her good girl veneer cracks, and she falls into an alluringly unsuitable affair that spins her crazily out of control. Nat is on the rebound and allergic to the truth about Babs’s relationship, her boyfriend’s ambition, her parents’ divorce, and her golden boy brother’s little Australian secret. Her mother’s lasagna and her roommate Andy’s fuzzy slippers are also monstrous affronts. But what Nat really needs to face is the mirror and herself…
. Wickedly witty and refreshingly honest, Running in Heels is a hilarious look at the lies we tell ourselves and the unwanted truths that only our best friends can tell us.

Behaving Like Adults

Modern women don’t believe in love. Believing in love carries roughly the same stigma as halitosis. It’s as old fashioned as going on a diet as opposed to a detox…
. I know all that and yet I doWith her first two irresistible novels, Anna Maxted won the hearts of readers everywhere. Now, in Behaving Like Adults, she introduces us to twenty nine year old Holly, the sunny, optimistic owner of Girl Meets Boy, a dating service for those who are ‘beautiful inside and out.’ She’s ambitious and successful with her matchmaking, but she hasn’t quite fulfilled her own relationship dreams her ex fianc , Nick, seems unlikely to progress from his job as Mr. Elephant, children’s party entertainer. So when her friends dare her to pick a man off the top of the pile, she’s game. But in one awful evening the perfect on paper Stuart turns out to be a thorough cad, and Holly’s belief in the goodness of humanity takes a hit. How can she make good matches when she can no longer trust her ability to read people? What does this mean for her business and her romantic future? Holly’s friends and colleagues are drawn into the complicated drama of her life, while Holly learns her most important lesson: to trust herself.

Being Committed

A hopeless unromantic gets a crash course in love in the fourth hilarious novel from bestselling author Anna Maxted After her disaster of a marriage ends when she is just twenty, Hannah is convinced you have to be out of your mind or desperate to tie the knot. And life without a husband at thirty one is just fine, thank you very much. She has a steady job working as a private investigator albeit a mediocre one; a devoted boyfriend of five years, Jason; and a wonderful relationship with her dad it’s a shame her mother is such a lost cause. Then, on a romantic weekend retreat to a faux ancient castle, Jason proposes marriage, leaving Hannah with no choice but the obvious: to turn him down cold. Much to her horror, four weeks later, Jason becomes engaged to his next door neighbor, a fine baker and ‘proficient seamstress.’ Has Hannah blown her last chance at a solid relationship as her family claims? Jason agrees to give her another chance but only if she meets his terms, among them a promise to dust off the many skeletons in her closet. Brim*ming with her characteristic blend of humor and heartache, Anna Maxted’s Being Committed is a perceptive look at intimacy and its substitutes, commitment phobia, and the power others have over us.

A Tale of Two Sisters

Cassie is slender, clever, charismatic, successful. The one flaw in her perfect life may be her marriage. Her sister Lizbet is plumper, plainer, dreamier. An aspiring journalist, she’s stuck writing embarrassing articles on sex for Ladz Mag. Her one achievement is her relationship with Tim, who thinks she s amusing and smart. Despite Cassie being the favored child, she and Lizbet have always been best friends. But then Lizbet gets pregnant.

Forced apart by mistakes not their own, enticed by new loves, and confronted by challenges they never asked for, Cassie and Lizbet struggle to rediscover the simple goodness of their sisterhood, even as their lives take them on a collision course of heartache and new beginnings.

A Tale of Two Sisters is Anna Maxted at her best a highly entertaining yet deeply involving story of sisters who lose their way and need each other to find themselves again..

Rich Again

Walk in closet full of designer everything? Check. Private Caribbean island? Check. Connection to the aristocracy? Working on it. Cunning, malicious stalker? Double check. Welcome to the world of the Kents, a charismatic, ambitious, and fabulously wealthy English family with two sisters one as strong and sparkling as the other is delicate and wounded who must somehow put their differences aside to keep an unknown enemy from bringing them down. Wild and beautiful Emily Kent has had the world laid at her feet by her ruthless mother and billionaire father but it’s not enough. Gifted with her mother’s to die for looks, her father’s hard scrabble business sense, and both of her parents’ lust for control, Emily is determined to make her own luck by seducing the only man she’s ever wanted, a man who can make her dreams of attaining the heights of old money English society come true. By contrast, Emily’s step sister, Claudia, is a fragile soul her mother died when she was five, leaving her to the unkind reign of step mother Innocence. In an uncharacteristic burst of rebellion, Claudia trades her gilded lifestyle for an ordinary flat and daytime job where she meets the man of her dreams or so she imagines. But, Emily and Claudia are caught up in a desperate situation that may be beyond their control. As for their father, disgraced tycoon Jack Kent, and his wife Innocence, they are too obsessed with the fight for supremacy over their vast empire to see that a mighty and sinister opponent is plotting to ruin them all.