In many books the leading character has something that he or she is trying to hide from the rest of the world. This week we are going to turn our attention to three of these books.
For starters we have "The Little Lady Agency" by Hester Brown. After Melissa loses her job she feels completely down on her luck. She decides that the way to pick herself back up is to create an alter-ego Honey. The things Honey would do are the kind of things Melissa would run from screaming, its amazing what a blonde wig and sexy wardrobe will do for a person. She spends all her time renting her services to men desperately in need of a woman - buying presents for difficult secretaries and pretending to be a girlfriend are just two of the roles she fills. But what happens when the boundary between Melissa and Honey starts to blur?
Carry on across the cut to see which other two books made this week's selection.
Secondly comes Maria Beaumont's "Marsha Mallow and Me". Amy is leading a double life; by day she is a secretary on the local free rag, but by night she writes raunchy, sex-filled books the Daily Mail loves to hate. If her mother was to find out what her secret was there would be a lot of trouble - no one would understand her. She must go to whatever ends necessary to prevent it from happening.
The third choice this week is "The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella. Becky Bloomwood is a financial advisor, dispensing money saving tips to all and sundry. Her advice has become so popular she's even about to get a role that will allow the whole country to follow it. The only snag is that behind closed doors her own finances are in a desperate state. Her spending is completely out of control, and the letters from her bank manager are getting more and more frequent. She'd surely lose a lot of respect if the truth came out.
