Can You Keep a Secret? - Sophie Kinsella

Can You Keep a Secret?

By Sophie Kinsella

  • Release Date: 2004-03-23
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
4 Score: 4 (From 1,451 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life comes a novel with the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism as her beloved Shopaholic series.

“Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover

Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:
 
Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.
 
Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.
 
Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.
 
Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger. . . .
 
But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO.  Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse. Or could they?
 
Praise for Can You Keep a Secret?
 
“Venturing beyond Saks and Barney’s, the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. . . . Kinsella’s down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter.”Publishers Weekly

“If laughing out loud in public places is your bag, be sure to pick up [Can You Keep a Secret?]. Heroine Emma Corrigan is going to be your new best friend.”Boston Herald
 
“Kinsella’s timing is so perfect, her instincts so spot-on, that it’s easy to . . . devour the book like the guilty pleasure it is.”Miami Herald

“Chick lit at its lightest and breeziest . . . filled with fabulous clothes, stalwart friends, and snotty enemies waiting to be taken down a peg.”Orlando Sentinel

“[Kinsella’s] dialogue is sharp, even her minor characters are well drawn, and her parody of the marketing world is very funny.”Washington Post Book World

“[A] comedic frenzy of ill-fated events . . . punchy . . . fast-moving.”Rocky Mountain News

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Latest Impressions

  • Can’t put it down!

    5
    By Lindiche
    Excellent and easy read. Funny and thoughtful.
  • Question

    3
    By Jlr1217
    I just purchased this book because I have enjoyed some of her other books. This was released in 2004 but yet updated in 2021. My question is what was updated? What was changed? I guess there was a movie out or is. But I see this a lot. Now I understand if an update is made within a year but 17 years later? The first thing that comes to mind is politics. Some authors seem like they cannot resist throwing in a personal opinion but making it appear that it is the characters opinion.
  • Amazing

    5
    By amandabeppler
    I couldn’t stop to read this book, its sooo much better than the movie
  • Hilarious

    5
    By Megdevbla
    One of my favorite Sophie kinsella books. I LoLed many a-time
  • Promising but not sustainable plot.

    2
    By FellowWriter
    The story caught my attention at the very beginning with a powerful attention catcher: meeting a perfect stranger on a plane. Unfortunately, Emma’s internal dialogue is too dense and interests starts fading. At times boring. Spoiler alert: I thought the crisis/reconciliation she had with her family could have described more personal growth on her. Finally, the friend (or I should say psycho enemy) Jemima is worst than the syrup and handled with not too much balance to what she does and how Emma reacts. Too much weight on how psycho she is with a too much simple outcome. Entertaining, though. I like how she writes.
  • Hard to get into but then good

    3
    By -Reader13
    It was quite slow and dry initially and then the plot finally deepened and it became interesting.
  • Fun read

    5
    By Mia_flowerheart
    Quick and fun read. I couldn’t put the book down.
  • The absolute FUNNIEST

    5
    By Mih_Hall
    This book might be the most entertaining thing I’ve read in a long time. Just laugh out loud, lay in bed giggling FUNNY. Emma is the best, Jack is the best. Sophie is the best. Highly recommend,
  • Fun to read, ending not worth price

    3
    By not here for self promos
    Fun to read, ending was just ok. Characters were drawn out and I felt myself sometimes just flipping through the pages to get over them faster. Not worth the price in my opinion but still real fun hence the 3 stars.
  • This book was completely infuriatig

    2
    By jea o
    I won’t give this book 1 star, because the writing wasn’t terrible so I’ll give the author credit on that. However, everything about the plot and the characters made this book the worst book I’ve ever read, in that it absolutely infuriated me from start to finish. From the beginning, the main character is constantly being bullied and belittled by every other character. Just chapters and chapters of people being completely terrible human beings and then she gets some minor satisfaction and the reader is expected to be happy with that? Reading this book was an absolute pain in the neck and I would never recommend it to anyone who is hoping to have a good day, because this will surely ruin it.