Four Blondes

If you were wowed by Sex and the City, the bestseller about love in the Big Apple, or you're a fan of the hit TV series featuring the antics of Carrie Bradshaw and her pals, you'll adore Candace Bushnell's new novel - four stories about the lives of a group of rich, successful, beautiful women - who, amazingly enough, don't have it all.

First up is Janey, a stunning model who attaches herself to a string of super-rich lovers in her quest to find the perfect summer house in the Hamptons - or so she deludes herself. Then there's the deliciously sinister Winnie Dieke, a high-profile political columnist with a child, a nanny and a beautiful home, who's engaged in a war of wills with her journalist husband - a man who will never understand her secret desire to be 'cherished'. Most alarming of all, though, is Cecilia, a gorgeous Cinderella who marries her prince only to begin a downward spiral into drugs and paranoia when she realises her 'dream' life is not the one she wants. And in the final, and most intriguing of the four stories, a glamorous - but still single - unnamed writer travels to London to hunt for the one thing she can-t find in New York: a husband.