Publisher Description

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes "a rollicking page-turner . . . It's funny. It's clever. It twists and turns. . . . Sophie Kinsella has yet another winner." (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

"Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter."—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover

Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her "happily ever after" begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill, but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
 
Well, perfect except that the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn't agree. He wants his phone back and doesn't appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life.
 
What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other's lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls, and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents, she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life.

"Fresh, fast-paced, and fiercely funny . . . Kinsella pens her most lovably neurotic protagonist yet. . . . A laugh-out-loud comic caper."—Publishers Weekly

"Poppy is easily as charming and daffy as shopaholic Rebecca Bloomwood."—Kirkus Reviews

"A screwball romance for the digital age."—The Star-Ledger

Author Biography

Sophie Kinsella is the author of the bestselling Shopaholic series, as well as the novels Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I've Got Your Number, and Wedding Night. She lives in England.

Review

PRAISE FOR SOPHIE KINSELLA
 
"[Kinsella] continues to tickle funny bones and touch hearts."—USA Today, on Twenties Girl
 
"Hilarious . . . a breezy blend of romantic comedy and cautionary fairy tale."—New York Post, on Remember Me?
 
"A fast, fun read that delves a little deeper."—The Plain Dealer, on The Undomestic Goddess

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PRAISE FOR SOPHIE KINSELLA

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CHAPTER 1 Perspective. I need to get perspective. It''s not an earthquake or a crazed gunman or a nuclear meltdown, is it? On the scale of disasters, this is not huge. Not huge. One day I expect I''ll look back at this moment and laugh and think, Ha-ha, how silly I was to worry-- Stop, Poppy. Don''t even try. I''m not laughing--in fact, I feel sick. I''m walking blindly around the hotel ballroom, my heart thudding, looking fruitlessly on the patterned blue carpet, behind gilt chairs, under discarded paper napkins, in places where it couldn''t possibly be. I''ve lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn''t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. To say this is a special ring is an understatement. It''s been in Magnus''s family for three generations. It''s this stunning emerald with two diamonds, and Magnus had to get it out of a special bank vault before he proposed. I''ve worn it safely every day for three whole months, religiously putting it on a special china tray at night, feeling for it on my finger every thirty seconds'.'.'.'and now, the very day his parents are coming back from the States, I''ve lost it. The very same day. Professors Antony Tavish and Wanda Brook-Tavish are, at this precise moment, flying back from six months'' sabbatical in Chicago. I can picture them now, eating honey-roasted peanuts and reading academic papers on their his ''n'' hers Kindles. I honestly don''t know which of them is more intimidating. Him. He''s so sarcastic. No, her. With all that frizzy hair and always asking you questions about your views on feminism. OK, they''re both bloody scary. And they''re landing in about an hour, and of course they''ll want to see the ring-- No. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive. I just need to look at this from a different angle. Like'.'.'.'what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn''t flap around in panic. He''d stay calm and use his little gray cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything. I squeeze my eyes tight. Little gray cells. Come on. Do your best. Thing is, I''m not sure Poirot had three glasses of pink champagne and a mojito before he solved the Murder on the Orient Express. "Miss?" A gray-haired cleaning lady is trying to get round me with a Hoover, and I gasp in horror. They''re Hoovering the ballroom already? What if they suck it up? "Excuse me." I grab her blue nylon shoulder. "Could you just give me five more minutes to search before you start Hoovering?" "Still looking for your ring?" She shakes her head doubtfully, then brightens. "I expect you''ll find it safe at home. It''s probably been there all the time!" "Maybe." I force myself to nod politely, although I feel like screaming, "I''m not that stupid!" I spot another cleaner, on the other side of the ballroom, clearing cupcake crumbs and crumpled paper napkins into a black plastic bin bag. She isn''t concentrating at all. Wasn''t she listening to me? "Excuse me!" My voice shrills out as I sprint across to her. "You are looking out for my ring, aren''t you?" "No sign of it so far, love." The woman sweeps another load of detritus off the table into the bin bag without giving it a second glance. "Careful!" I grab for the napkins and pull them out again, feeling each one carefully for a hard lump, not caring that I''m getting buttercream icing all over my hands. "Dear, I''m trying to clear up." The cleaner grabs the napkins out of my hands. "Look at the mess you''re making!" "I know, I know. I''m sorry." I scrabble for the cupcake cases I dropped on the floor. "But you don''t understand. If I don''t find this ring, I''m dead." I want to grab the bin bag and do a forensics check of the contents with tweezers. I want to put plastic tape round the whole room and declare it a crime scene. It has to be here, it has to be. Unless someone''s still got it. That''s the only other possibility that I''m clinging to. One of my friends is still wearing it and somehow hasn''t noticed. Perhaps it''s slipped into a handbag'.'.'.'maybe it''s fallen into a pocket'.'.'.'it''s stuck on the threads of a jumper'.'.'.'The possibilities in my head are getting more and more far-fetched, but I can''t give up on them. "Have you tried the ladies'' room?" The woman moves to get past me. Of course I''ve tried the ladies'' room. I checked every single cubicle, on my hands and knees. And then all the basins. Twice. And then I tried to persuade the concierge to close it and have all the sink pipes investigated, but he refused. He said it would be different if I knew it had been lost there for certain, and he was sure the police would agree with him, and could I please step aside from the desk as there were people waiting? Police. Bah. I thought they''d come roaring round in their squad cars as soon as I called, not just tell me to come down to the police station and file a report. I don''t have time to file a report! I''ve got to find my ring! I hurry back to the circular table we were sitting at this afternoon and crawl underneath, patting the carpet yet again. How could I have let this happen? How could I have been so stupid? It was my old school friend Natasha''s idea to get tickets for the Marie Curie Champagne Tea. She couldn''t come to my official hen spa weekend, so this was a kind of substitute. There were eight of us at the table, all merrily swigging champagne and stuffing down cupcakes, and it was right before the raffle started that someone said, "Come on, Poppy, let''s have a go with your ring." I can''t even remember who that was. Annalise, maybe? Annalise was at university with me, and now we work together at First Fit Physio, with Ruby, who was also in our physio course. Ruby was at the tea, too, but I''m not sure she tried on the ring. Or did she? I can''t believe how rubbish I am at this. How can I do a Poirot if I can''t even remember the basics? The truth is, everyone seemed to be trying on the ring: Natasha and Clare and Emily (old school friends up from Taunton), Lucinda (my wedding planner, who''s kind of become a friend) and her assistant, Clemency, and Ruby and Annalise (not only college friends and colleagues but my two best friends. They''re going to be my bridesmaids too). I''ll admit it: I was basking in all the admiration. I still can''t believe something so grand and beautiful belongs to me. The fact is, I still can''t believe any of it. I''m engaged! Me, Poppy Wyatt. To a tall, handsome university lecturer who''s written a book and even been on the TV. Only six months ago, my love life was a disaster zone. I''d had no significant action for a year and was reluctantly deciding I should give that match.com guy with the bad breath a second chance--and now my wedding''s only ten days away! I wake up every morning and look at Magnus''s smooth, freckled, sleeping back and think, My fianc

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