bookends by Jane Green novel

Catherine Warner and Simon Nelson are best friends: total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatterbrained, messy, and emotionally closed off. Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. They live in London's West Hampstead along with their lifelong friends, Josh and Lucy, who are happily married with a devil-spawn child called Max and a terrifying Swedish nanny, Ingrid All's well (sort of) until the sudden arrival of a college friend-the stunningly beautiful Portia, who's known for breaking hearts. Her reappearance soon unleashes a rollicking series of events that tests the foursome's friendships to the limit. Fortunately, Cath has plenty to take her mind off Portia's schemes-like her gutsy decision to fulfill her dream of opening a bookstore, and a budding romance with sexy real-estate agent James. With his irresistible smile and boyish charm, could he be the one to melt Cath's heart? Told with Jane Green's captivating wit and flare, Bookends is above all a story about friendship-its twists, turns, and complications-and how it weathers the challenges of love, ambition, marriage, and, most of all, growing up. Warm-hearted, sophisticated, and full of delicious surprises, Bookends is Green's most dazzling novel yet.