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Confessions of a Shopaholic Book

Financial journalist, Rebecca Bloomwood, spends her working day advising others on how to invest and budget money. However, she doesn't practice what she preaches and guiltily spends her private life hitting the shops! For Rebecca, retail therapy is the answer to all her problems, an addiction, that she knows she should control, but can't. Cutting back and making more money have all failed miserably and have left Becky struggling to gain control of her credit cards. Her love life is just as disasterous as her finances and seems to be taking a turn for the worse until she meets PR Millionaire Luke Brandon. Have you ever found yourself justifying purchases to yourself and emotional shopping? Well, this amusing and light-hearted read will have you giggling at the resemblances to your own … read more...

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On the face of it, Rebecca Bloomwood has it all. Confident, single and happily living in des-res Fulham with her best friend Suze, she's a financial journalist who spends her days writing articles advising other people on the importance of budgeting and prudent investing. Her private life is a different story though; Rebecca manages her own finances in a way that would make most of her readers' hair curl--for Rebecca is a woman on a mission--she just can't stop spending.
I look up and I'm in front of Octagon. My favourite shop in the whole world. Three floors of clothes, accessories, furnishing, gifts, coffee shops, juice bars and a florist which makes you want to fill your entire home with flowers. I've got my purse with me. Just something small, to cheer me up. A T-shirt or something. Or even some bubble bath. I won't spend much. I'll just go in and... I'm already pushing my way through the doors. Oh God, the relief. The warmth, the light. This is where I belong. This is my natural habitat.
As the plot unfolds, Rebecca finds increasingly bizarre and often highly comical ways to ignore her ever-growing debts and mounting pile of unpaid Visa bills and red bank statements. Got a bill you can't pay? No problem. Just take it out for a walk and deposit it in the nearest skip whilst no-one is looking. Need to justify that Â£120 velvet scarf? Don't worry! It was a snip at half price in the sale, so what initially looks like a splurge is actually an example of canny discount shopping. Rebecca's disastrous love life mirrors her finances. And her career seems to be taking a turn for the worse, too. That is, until she finds a financial story that really sparks her journalistic interest, and begins to spar with handsome and successful financial PR millionaire Luke Brandon. Witty, light-hearted and often hilarious, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic is the ideal read for anyone who has ever found themselves mentally justifying rash purchases in their heads, or buying just one more pair of black trousers because they are so different from the other eight pairs in their wardrobe. --Emily Lowson
Blackwell
Now in paperback--the New York Times bestselling all-too-true debut novel that chronicles one woman's hilarious efforts to overcome her expensive--if stylish--addiction to shopping.

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