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Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month.

Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover - and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her.

Maggie:capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with - motherhood.

Candice:honest, decent, or so she believes - until a ghost from her past turns up, and almost ruins her life.

A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship...

Length: 353 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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"Wickham has a deft touch with character and these three women fairly sashay - or should that bestagger - off the page."--"Marie Claire" --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man

Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -- motherhood

Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes -- until a ghost from her past turns up

At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed.

In Cocktails for Three, Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B004GKMUU8
Publisher : Transworld Digital; 0 edition (23 December 2010)
Language: : English
File size : 1608 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 353 pages

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Sandy Bodycote

Great Book

Reviewed in Australia on 12 April 2014

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Great girly read, loved the characters & story so true to life. If you love cocktails & liked "Sex in the City you will love this book!

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Nena Monfries

Three Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 8 June 2015

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An easy, enjoyable read.

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Steph

Cocktails for me...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 August 2011

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'Cocktails for three' is a great novel written as Madeline Wickham. Now for anyone who doesn't know this, Madeline Wickham is Sophia Kinsella's real name and a name she frequently writes under. Both personas write very different novels and I myself like both kinds but others seem to have varied opinions so I can't recommend this to someone who likes the shopaholic series for example as Madeline's books take a very different tone. Now I don't mean this in the sense that if you liked shopaholic you won't like this, I just can't tell you that if you like Sophia you will defiantly like Madeline cause they just take different tones.

I like both personas for very different reasons. I like Sophia's laugh out loud humour and not too serious novels but I also like Madeline's more serious topics and although there is some humour it does focus more on serious drama than a clumsy girl who really likes to shop.

Anyways on to the book. This book centres round 3 girls who meet every month for cocktails in the same place. There are a lot of main characters in the book but Madeline only writes from the 3 women's perspective. The book mainly focuses on different relationships, from mistress and mister to mother and baby from friend to friend and the book is not short of drama.
Now the start of the book was a bit tedious. I usually struggle to put a book down and at the beginning I was putting it down quite a lot but I persevered and I did eventually really enjoy the last part and could not put it down. The last half is really where all the drama unfolds which is probably why I was so hooked, but in the beginning nothing much was happening and it was just a bit boring.

The different relationships into the book were really thrilling and in-depth and although it is generally a very light heated book the struggles the characters go through are very real and serious and not your typical affair scandal. You have Maggie who is beginning a life of motherhood in the country and is struggling to settle into life away from the big city. Then you have Roxanne, she is a mistress to a high profile man and is struggling to fight her feelings of love towards him. Then you have Candice who is making up for her father's mistakes many years ago and ultimately gets burned.

It's a quick read but an enjoyable one and although 3 stars may seem pretty mediocre this was purely because of the effort it took for me to settle into the book. I would recommend it regardless of the score but would point out that it is not a Sophia Kinsella style of book and that it can be tedious at the beginning but at the end there is a good solid story.

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Alison Marie

Weak characters, Weak Story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2011

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I am a massive Sophie Kinsella fan and especially love the Shopaholic series so I was keen to read cocktails for three one of the books she wrote under her own name Madeline Wickenham and has now republished as Sophie Kinsella writing as Madeline Wickenham. I guess why not use the success of Shopaholic to cash in on some books that didnt do that well in the first place right?

Cocktails for three tells the story of Roxanne, Maggie and Candice who all work together in the glossy world of publishing and always meet for cocktails once a month. The three are the best of friends but when Maggie becomes overwhelmed by the world of new motherhood and Candice tries to put right her buried past by inviting an old friend back into her life and Roxanne hiding a deep secret of her own the dynamics of their friendship are suddenly thrown into turmoil.

I thought this book sounded like a really good girly read but I felt pretty disapointed with it. The characters felt really flat and massively lacked any humour, you do expect a bit of a laugh with chick lit. There was only one moment in the book that made me go OMG, other than that I felt I could guess pretty easily what was about to happen. The scenarios that faced each of the characters individually just seemed to be predictable or resolved really easily without much of a sense of a journey,emotion or any big twist in events about them.

I was looking forward to some characters you could really love like Becky Bloomwood in shopaholic and an exciting story but sadly it just wasn't to be with this book.

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Pauline Canter

A readable novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 August 2020

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As previous reviewers have stated this is an early work of Sophia Kinsella and therefore has a completely different style to her later works. Some parts of the three individual stories are predictable. On the whole it was quite readable, not exactly a page turner, as it missed the confident pace and the humour of her later stories which I usually race through.

Fiona PM

Great Value Fab Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2019

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Would buy from this seller again, book arrived exactly as described. Never bought a second hand book before but definitely would again

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A delightful read of true friendship

Yve

Excellent read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2014

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Yes, I really particularly liked this one of Sophie's. Have read quite a few of hers. I like the way she writes, but this was pretty good. She is a very clever. Her books always start well, gripping you from the beginning and are readable all the way through and then at the end there is usually a very poignant reason for the whole story ..... very clever.

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