Pants on Fire [Mass Market Paperback]

Maggie Alderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 6, 2005

When a heartsick London woman moves Down Under to start over, she finds that Sydney is populated with men who look all too familiar-making it far too easy for her to repeat the mistakes of her past.

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About the Author

Maggie Alderson has been an editor at British Elle and several other magazines and has covered international fashion shows for more than 15 years.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (September 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425205711
• ISBN-13: 978-0425205716
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #820,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Summer Read, January 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Pants on Fire (Paperback)

Having been a fan of Alderson's column in The Age (Australian newspaper) for years, I was looking forward to reading this book. I read it over a couple of days on holiday and it's perfect when you want a "light" entertaining read. It is well written, with many funny scenes and is well worth reading, however I think Mad About The Boy is better. My favourite books by Alderson are Handbag Heaven and Shoe Money, which are compiled from her many fashion columns. May be hard to get in the US, but would be worth tracking down!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a nice reading, December 15, 2004

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Patrizia (Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pants on Fire (Paperback)

It's a fine, light and entertaining read. I'm still reading and I can't put it down .I like the humorous way that the author - an Australian writer- shows the incoherence of life.
It's about a journalist who lives and works in London and moves to Australia to work in a women's magazine to try to forget her broken heart. She mets a lot of people involved in a lot of confusion.Love, sex, drugs, work, richness and poorness are some of the things that this "girly" book embodies in an intelligent way.
As another reader said, is a class above most girly reads.
It's a good read, and it's worth tracking it down, since it 's not so easy to find it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive Chic Lit, June 8, 2010

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Ms. Nikita J. Hall (Melbourne, VIC Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pants on Fire (Mass Market Paperback)

Ahh, chick lit at its finest.
After buying this book, I immediately went out and purchased all the books ever written by Maggie Alderson (she's a great newspaper columnest too).