Pauline Lawless Bücher

"No more meeting crappy men in crappy pubs! Online dating is the modern way to meet Mr Right." declares Viv to her two friends and housemates. All three are in their mid-thirties and have been unlucky in love. "Out of every ten replies I'll probably get two perverts, two nerds, two frauds - usually married - and four genuine guys. Not a bad percentage really." Claire is apprehensive about it and Megan downright sceptical but Viv with her usual joie de vivre, takes to it with gusto. Many men and many dates later - from the boring to the bizarre - Viv thinks she has found her Mr Right. But does the course of true love ever run smoothly? Meanwhile she coerces a doubtful Claire into joining the dating site too. Add to this mix Claire's nasty sister Sarah, who bored with her marriage, embraces online dating with even more enthusiasm than Viv. Not to mention Megan's thrice-married mother who's looking for a toy boy not a husband ...

Four women arrive in Paris to spend a year there. Each has different expectations, fears and dreams of what this year will bring. Ashling is thrilled when her banker husband is asked to relocate to Paris to work on a financial project which is all very hush-hush. She has always loved France and feels she will be living a dream come true. New Yorker Taylor has no choice but to join her husband when he too is posted there. A spoilt, prescription-drug addict, the only thing that makes the move bearable for her is all that designer shopping on Rue St Honore. Felicity is devastated at the thought of leaving London when her husband is chosen to work on the project. Nervous and uptight, how can she face a whole new world? Jazz is a beauty. She is also clever and ambitious but her biological clock is ticking loudly. Then in Paris she meets the man she once loved and lost. He's married but surely this is her last chance of happiness. Yet Paris manages to surprise them all . . .

They'd met on their first day at school - four little girls who were all very different from each other but who somehow became close friends. Their friendship has now lasted 35 years. As their birthdays all fall in the same week they long ago made a pact to spend each big decade birthday together. So far they'd managed it. Now as their 39th birthday looms, Angel, a famous Hollywood actress, announces that this will be her last birthday. Terrified of aging, she absolutely refuses to turn 40. So Lexi, the mother hen of the group and an artist, invites them to Florida for a week-long celebration of this, their last birthday together. The four come together for the celebration but soon things start to unravel and the week ends disastrously. Lexi is distraught. Can their friendship endure? Only time will tell.