Uptown Girl (33 page)
Authors: Olivia Goldsmith
I'd also like to acknowledge the help and support of Val Hudson, Philip Gwyn Jones, David Young, Malcolm Edwards, Imogen Taylor, and my very dear friend Adrian Bourne.
I am sure I have inadvertently left out others who have been wonderfully kind. Your omission is not for lack of appreciation but for lack of functioning brain cells. Please forgive me and know that, despite my momentary lapse, you have my thanks.
Olivia Goldsmith is the bestselling author of
The First Wives Club, Flavour of the Month, Bestseller, The Switch, Young Wives, Bad Boy
and most recently,
Insiders.
She has contributed to
The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, In Style
, and the
Observer
, among other publications. She lives in Manhattan. For more about Olivia Goldsmith, visit her website at www.olivia-goldsmith.com.
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âFull of wisecracks and gossip ⦠Olivia Goldsmith can keep you reading'
Cosmopolitan
âA bubbly, fizzy story'
Daily Mail
âOlivia Goldsmith's forte has always been the writing of revenge novels with great good humor'
Washington Post
âGoldsmith hands out her characters' rewards and comeuppances like Jane Austen dealing blackjack ⦠You keep licking your fingers and reaching for the next page as if it were another potato chip'
Newsweek
âFizzing with acerbic dialogue and high-level sexual slapstick'
Good Housekeeping
The First Wives Club
Flavour of the Month
Fashionably Late
Simple Isn't Easy
Bestseller
Marrying Mom
The Switch
Young Wives
Bad Boy
Insiders
This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters, incidents and organizations portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, localities or organizations is entirely coincidental.
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