Handbags and Gladrags by Maggie Alderson

Whilst looking for the remote control this evening I found behind the sofa a book I thought I had lost! Ah this book is fab I have read it so many times, although it does look a little bit rough, as I dropped it in the bath years ago when I was able to have them and had to dry it on the radiator.

The book focusses on Emily who is a married fashion journalist on a womens glossy magazine who embarks on an affair based around the fashion season with an Australian photographer called Miles. I love the descriptions of all of the clothes and the trips to London, Paris and Milan from Prada to Gucci.  Obviously Emily is playing a dangerous game juggling her work and her affair with her husband but you slowly see that her husband isn’t the angel he makes himself out to be.  

Definitely worth a read if that sounds like your sound of thing and remember, don’t drop it in the bath! 

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