I got this book for cheap at some Popular bookstore sale!
The author, Madeleine Wickham is in fact Sophie Kinsella, the famous writer of the Shopaholic series.
This is a pure chic-lit - simple story-line with the usuals; cheat, lies and deceit.
From the sleeve of the book:
Liz and Jonathan Chambers were stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter, Alice, and now couldn't sell their old house. Then Marcus Witherstone, senior partner in Silchester's leading estate agency, came into their lives - and at first it seemed he would solve all their problems. He knew the perfect tenants from London who would rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers.
But soon Marcus found himself involved with Liz in a way he'd never intended. At first he is happy with the affair but soon enough he finds himself uncomfortable and regretting the trouble he is digging himself into and his family i.e. his wife Anthea and his boys, Daniel and Andrew. Meanwhile, Liz was lost in blissful dreams of Marcus, Jonathan was left to run the tutorial college and neither of them had time to notice that their teenage daughter was developing a passion for the tenants, in particular Piers.
Everyone seemed to be entangled with everyone else, in the most awkward possible way. And as events closed in. they all begin to realise that some deceptions are just a bit too close to home.
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