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Love and the City: Les gens changent/Changing People; Les confessions de Bambou/The Bamboo Confessions
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125 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 1, 2010
About the author
Sophie Kinsella
130 books40.3k followersSophie Kinsella has sold over 40 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages.
Sophie Kinsella first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel in the Shopaholic series – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (also published as Confessions of a Shopaholic). The book’s heroine, Becky Bloomwood – a fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping but is hopeless with money – captured the hearts of readers worldwide. Becky has since featured in seven further bestselling books, Shopaholic Abroad (also published as Shopaholic Takes Manhattan), Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic & Sister, Shopaholic & Baby, Mini Shopaholic, Shopaholic to the Stars and Shopaholic to the Rescue. Becky Bloomwood came to the big screen in 2009 with the hit Disney movie Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy.
Sophie has also written seven standalone novels which have all been bestsellers in the UK, USA and other countries around the world: Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, Wedding Night, and My Not So Perfect Life, which was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Best Fiction in 2017.
In 2014 she published a Young Adult novel Finding Audrey about a teenage girl with social anxiety and her madcap family, and in January 2018, Sophie published her first illustrated book for young readers about the charming adventures of a mother-daughter fairy duo, Mummy Fairy and Me (also published as Fairy Mom and Me).
Sophie’s latest novel, Surprise Me, published in February 2018, presents a humorous yet moving portrait of a marriage—its intricacies, comforts, and complications. Surprise Me reveals that hidden layers in a close relationship are often yet to be discovered.
Sophie wrote her first novel under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, at the tender age of 24, whilst she was working as a financial journalist. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten bestseller. She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Residence, Swimming Pool Sunday, The Gatecrasher, The Wedding Girl, Cocktails for Three and Sleeping Arrangements.
Sophie was born in London. She studied music at New College, Oxford, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She now lives in London, UK, with her husband and family.
Visit Sophie's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SophieKinsell...
Series:
* Shopaholic
Sophie Kinsella first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel in the Shopaholic series – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (also published as Confessions of a Shopaholic). The book’s heroine, Becky Bloomwood – a fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping but is hopeless with money – captured the hearts of readers worldwide. Becky has since featured in seven further bestselling books, Shopaholic Abroad (also published as Shopaholic Takes Manhattan), Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic & Sister, Shopaholic & Baby, Mini Shopaholic, Shopaholic to the Stars and Shopaholic to the Rescue. Becky Bloomwood came to the big screen in 2009 with the hit Disney movie Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy.
Sophie has also written seven standalone novels which have all been bestsellers in the UK, USA and other countries around the world: Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, Wedding Night, and My Not So Perfect Life, which was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Best Fiction in 2017.
In 2014 she published a Young Adult novel Finding Audrey about a teenage girl with social anxiety and her madcap family, and in January 2018, Sophie published her first illustrated book for young readers about the charming adventures of a mother-daughter fairy duo, Mummy Fairy and Me (also published as Fairy Mom and Me).
Sophie’s latest novel, Surprise Me, published in February 2018, presents a humorous yet moving portrait of a marriage—its intricacies, comforts, and complications. Surprise Me reveals that hidden layers in a close relationship are often yet to be discovered.
Sophie wrote her first novel under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, at the tender age of 24, whilst she was working as a financial journalist. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten bestseller. She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Residence, Swimming Pool Sunday, The Gatecrasher, The Wedding Girl, Cocktails for Three and Sleeping Arrangements.
Sophie was born in London. She studied music at New College, Oxford, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She now lives in London, UK, with her husband and family.
Visit Sophie's Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SophieKinsell...
Series:
* Shopaholic
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November 9, 2020
Les histoires sont courtes et prenantes. L'anglais n'est pas trop difficile et il y a beaucoup de définitions/traductions.
C'est un bon livre pour débuter la lecture en anglais.
C'est un bon livre pour débuter la lecture en anglais.
February 3, 2013
Fun way of learning French! We can read both in English and French in one page. The story is light but still interesting. Can't wait to get my other bilingue books.
August 6, 2013
Un peu déçue par ces deux nouvelles j'attendais mieux de ces auteurs que j'aime beaucoup
October 14, 2020
J'ai beaucoup aimé et ça aide à se remettre a l'anglais!! Mais les histoires sont vraiment très courtes!!
January 2, 2024
Livre sympa. Histoires courtes mais prenantes. C’est un livre bilingue donc on s’y perd un peu avec les traductions mais ça reste gérable.
August 15, 2023
Would never read this in English but love it as a bilingual easy to read book. Read it in French in 2 days. Really boosted my confidence and both stories were really funny.
September 7, 2018
Des nouvelles vraiment bien, j'ai appris beaucoup de vocabulaire en anglais et j'ai découvert des auteures dont j'ai hâte de lire les autres livres !
Petite préférence tout de même pour Les Confessions de Bambou, la nouvelle était un peu plus longue et plus intéressante !
Ma revue sur ce livre : https://moncarnetpivoine.com/2018/09/...
Petite préférence tout de même pour Les Confessions de Bambou, la nouvelle était un peu plus longue et plus intéressante !
Ma revue sur ce livre : https://moncarnetpivoine.com/2018/09/...
July 24, 2019
I LOVE this format for reading. It's helping my French so much to try and decipher the text before consuming the English translation. Obviously I'm now incredibly slow but it's worth it. The selection of these was terrible (this was the only book besides Frankenstein written by a woman)... But that's not this book's fault. These two short stories were cute but wow is Sophie Kinsella much easier to comprehend in a foreign language than Weisberger... Looking forward to more of these.
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