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Can You Keep A Secret

Author : Hema Blog :TELL A STORY - MY WAY Date: 11/30/2011 2:39:00 AM

Emma Corrigan is the nothing special ordinary girl, you find in every walk of your life. She is funny, talented and hardworking but yet she has tiny little secrets in her life. She has changed 4 careers in the past 3 years and is desperate to keep this one going to repay her father those few thousand quids and to avoid those humiliating, rash comments and jokes about her career. The meeting with the Glen oil corporation, which was a promise to her promotion, is a complete disaster, putting her career at stake. Even the recent upgrade to the business class, in her flight back home, does not cheer her up as she is a nervous flyer. To make this day even more eventful, the plane goes through some turbulence and Emma feels she is going to die. She feels the american next to her is the last person she is going to see when she is alive and spills out all her secrets.

Little does Emma know that this man is going to turn her fate around and make her life more difficult. When she sees him walk into her office the following Monday, she cannot quite believe her fate. More over this gentleman, Jack Harper, has not forgotten a word she has said and this leaves her more embarrassed. The chemistry between Jack and Emma slowly starts picking up and eventually they fall in love. Their relationship is put at stake when Jack breaks Emma's trust by revealing every single one of them on National Television. Now Emma is fuming and wants revenge. Emma can do nothing about this, she knows none of Jack's secrets except one. Will she get her revenge? What happens to Jack and Emma? Will Emma succeed in her career with Panther Corporation (Which was co-founder by Jack)?

The story was very enjoyable, though (I would say) Undomestic goddess made me set high grounds for the author. Sophie Kinsella's stand alone novel, makes you get 'gripped' by her sense of humor and lucid writing, The story does not take any unexpected turn, and is very down to earth. It is a chick lit and the author throws a lot of 'girl words' (if I may say so) which sets the ambiance just right. The secret about Jack, I wouldn't have guessed it right but I think that, it just created unwanted drama. Never the less it was a very entertaining novel, apt for a light read.