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She stopped at nothing. To get everything.

Scheming social climber Alexa may be humbly born. But she's a class-hopping cruise missile aimed at the very top of the gold-digging tree. Only a title, mansion and family tiara will do. Befriending feckless aristo Florrie (three surnames plus black hole where her brain should be) means the grandest doors swing open and the prince of her dreams is in sight. But has Florrie's mother, the formidable Lady Annabel, rumbled what Alexa is up to?

Beautiful but penniless student Polly, meanwhile, is in love. Is Max, the handsome young vet she's found in a country lane, quite as ordinary as he seems, however?

Passionate love, eye-widening snobbery and more than naked ambition abound in this contemporary Cinderella tale - a deliciously satirical novel of the upwardly mobile.

(P)2011 Headline Digital

Critics Review

'One of the country's greatest comic authors'
Mirror
'Holden's tale of social snobbery and bare-faced ambition is a modern fairytale that chimes perfectly with our post-Wills-and-Kate world'
Glamour
'A fruity, glamorous, modern take on the Cinderella story from heat favourite Holden, with a topical dash of royal wedding thrown in'
heat
'Pin-sharp social climbing comedy'
Grazia
Author Wendy Holden
Narrator Paula Wilcox
Duration 6 hours and 50 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780755391325
Format Audiobook
Publisher Headline
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Romance
Availability AU, GB, IE

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