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Can You Keep a Secret

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Sophie Kinsella Can You Keep A Secret

 


 

"If laughing out loud in public places is your bag, be sure to pick up this pink book. Heroine Emma Corrigan is going to be your new best friend." - Boston Herald

 

Description

Emma Corrigan is a woman who keeps many secrets. Unfortunately, when she thinks that she is going to die in a plane crash, she tells all, and I mean ALL of her secrets to a complete stranger (or so she thinks). When Emma arrives at work that Monday she is face to face with her company's elusive CEO, the stranger from the plane.

 

Author Background

Sophie Kinsella lives in England with her family. She is a former financial journalist whose childhood dream was to be one of the orphans in the stage show Annie. She is the author of the bestselling Shopaholic novels, and while she thought that Shopaholic Ties The Knot was going to be the last of the series, she admits that she fell in love with the character Becky, so there is in fact going to be another one. There is talk that the shopaholic series is going to be made into a movie.

 

 

Text, context, history

http://www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell/kinsella/ - Oficial Sophie Kinsella website

 

Further reading by Sophie Kinsella

* Confessions of a Shopaholic

* Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

* Shopaholic & Sister

* Shopaholic Ties the Knot

* The Undomestic Goddess

 

Bookclub questions

Plot questions

1) What was going through Emma’s head when she found out about Jack Harper?

2) What does Emma cry after she tells Connor she will move in with him?

3) Why does Emma feel funny using ‘darling’ with Connor?

4) What did Emma do to the goldfish?

5) Why did Emma go through so many jobs?

6) How does Emma feel when she realizes that Jack remembers everything that she told him?

7) Is Emma responsible for Katie’s date?

8) Is Emma trying too hard to make her relationship with Connor work?

9) Is it right that Jack left in the middle of his date with Emma after he received a phone call?

10) Why is Emma hesistant about telling Connor that she went out on a date with Jack?

11) Why didn’t Emma tell her parents about the picnic?

12) Why did Jack and Emma lead Emma’s parents on at the picnic?

13) What was Jack trying to do by telling the world all about Emma in his interview?

14) What is Jack’s secret?

 

Thinking/opinion questions

1) What would have happened if Emma never thought her plane was going to crash?

2) How is a relationship like a game of chess?

3) When faced with death, are we inclined to say/do things that we don’t really mean?

4) Should Jack be more open with Emma?

5) Do Jack and Emma have a one-sided relationship?

6) Is it justified that Jack says he doesn’t share too much with Emma because he is a private person?

7) Should Emma be mad at Jack for what he did on the television show?

8) Should Emma expose Jack’s secrets?

9) Is it honorable what Jack is doing for his friend Pete’s daughter?

10) Does everyone keep secrets?

 

 

Questions for Trashy Romance Readers Club

1) How is a relationship like a game of chess?

2) Is Emma trying too hard to make her relationship with Connor work?

3) Do Jack and Emma have a one-sided relationship?

4) What was Jack trying to do by telling the world all about Emma in his interview?

5) Does everyone keep secrets?

"Kinsella's light touch keeps this very funny look at life and relationships flying along and builds Emma into a genuinely endearing character. Romantic, but refreshingly witty." - Sunday Mirror (U.K)

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