Bad Heir Day

  • ISBN: 9780747261308
  • Author: Wendy Holden
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    Anna's boyfriend Seb is impossibly handsome, impossibly rich and generally just impossible. When eventually he dumps her, she vows to give up men and throw herself into her career. Which is how she ends up working for Cassandra. The social climber from hell, Cassandra has a huge house in Kensington, a philandering rock star husband and the spawn of Satan for a son. So when desperate-to-escape Anna meets dashing Jamie, charming heir to a castle in Scotland, she can't believe her luck. And she probably shouldn't... About the Author Wendy Holden has previously worked for Harpers and Queen, The Sunday Times Style section and Tatler. Excerpted from Bad Heir Day by Wendy Holden. Copyright © 2000. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved The bride had still not arrived. Beside Anna, Seb fidgeted, sighed and tutted, while the surrounding cacophony of wailing babies and coughing increased. There seemed, Anna saw as she glanced round the candlelit chapel, to be an awful lot of people there. All better dressed than herself. As she caught the haughty eye of a skinny and impeccably turned-out brunette, Anna dropped her gaze to her feet. Realising that there had been no time even to clean her shoes, she immediately wished she hadnt. Everything had been such a rush. After breakfasting at his usual leisurely pace, Seb had glanced at the invitation properly for the first time and, after much panicked scanning of the Scottish mainland, eventually discovered the location of the wedding somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. Fucking hell, I thought it was in Edinburgh, he roared. Its practically in Iceland. Seb thrust the AA Road Atlas at her, his stabbing finger a good quarter inch off the far northwest coast of Scotland. Anna stared at the white island amid the blue, whose shape bore a startling resemblance to a hand making an uncomplimentary gesture with its middle finger. She glanced at the invitation. Dampie Castle, Island of Skul, she read. Well, I suppose getting married in a castle is rather romantic . . . Castle my arse, cursed Seb. Why cant they get married in Knightsbridge like everybody else? Perhaps we shouldnt bother going, Anna said soothingly. After all, she had met neither component of the unit of Thoby and Miranda whose merger they were invited to celebrate. All she knew was that Thoby, or Bollocks, as Seb insisted on calling him, was a schoolfriend of his. There seemed to be very few men who werent. While his habit of referring to Miranda as Melons confirmed Annas suspicions that she was one of his ex-girlfriends. Again, there seemed to be very few women who werent. Seb, however, was hell-bent on putting in an appearance. Abandoning plans to drive to Scotland, they flew first class from Heathrow to Inverness instead and drove like the wind in a hired Fiesta to the ferryport for Skul, Seb in a rage all the way. Being stopped by a highway patrol car and asked, Having trouble taking off, sir? had hardly improved his temper. In the end, they had arrived at Dampie too late to be shown their room, too late to look round the castle, too late to look at the castle at all, as darkness had long since fallen. Too late to do anything but rush to the chapel, where the evening service would, Seb snarled as they screeched up the driveway, be halfway through by now at least. Only it wasnt.
  • Pages: 448
  • Format: Paperback
  • Genre: General
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