The Personal Shopper Book

Meet Annie Valentine a multi-tasker extraordinaire - juggling her job as a personal shopper in a swanky London department store with life as a single parent to sulky teenager Lorna and cripplingly shy Owen. But helping women shop isn't the half of it. In her job Annie helps people to change their lives for the better managing the image crises that usually go hand in hand with a major life upheaval. Stylish and feisty Annie projects the perfect image of a confident and independent woman. A genius at solving everyone's problems...except her own. Finally after lurching from one disastrous date to another she decides enough is enough! When eligible bachelor Gray appears on the scene Annie jumps at the chance to get serious. Yes he may not have much a sense of humour but since their father isn't around anymore the kids will relish having a man around the house again. Won't they? But Owen seems far keener on his jumble-sale-scruffy music teacher Ed than Annie's new man and somehow after getting to know him Annie begins to understand the appeal...