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Jane Green Warburg, who writes as Jane Green, was born in London and has lived in Connecticut for seven years. One of the founding writers behind the genre known as chick lit', Green now writes novels that reflect the lives of real women today, with all the trials and tribulations that come with real life: from in-laws, motherhood, mid-life crises and loss, all of which are told with Green's trademark warmth, wit and wisdom. She began her writing career in entertainment journalism and P.R., the sort of glamorous-sounding but low-wage salt mines in which readers might expect to find a Bridget Jones, or, to take an example from Green's own fiction, a Jemima Jones. She moved up to become a feature writer at The Daily Express in London, where she became known for her wry take on dating and relationships.

Then, like all good heroines, Green decided to take a chance and follow a dream. She left the Express to freelance, and started work on a novel. In August of 1996 there was a bidding war for her first novel, Straight Talking, an overnight success. Jemima J, her second novel, was an international bestseller. Since then, Green has continued to charm and entertain readers with novels like Mr. Maybe, Bookends and To Have and To Hold. According to People magazine, Green's writing is deliciously witty and her heroines authentic. A charming book that demands Read me in one sitting!' .

The Washington Post describes her writing as smart and complex , Entertainment Weekly says unexpectedly honest , and USA Today has said: Happy, melancholic and beautifully written . The winner of a Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Fiction Award, contributor to the most recent Chicken Soup for the Soul: Power Moms book, Jane Green Warburg lives with her husband, Ian Warburg, and their blended families of six children, in Connecticut, where her passions are food, gardening and throwing parties. When not attempting to juggle running the lives of small people, a household and a career, she can usually be found either cooking, or covered in dirt, planting vegetable seeds.

Available Books by Jane Green

Babyville by Jane Green

Babyville
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140295931
RRP: $24.95

Julia and Mark are stuck in a loveless relationship. Julia thinks a baby will help, but perhaps that isn't the answer to her problems . . . Maeve is totally allergic to commitment - she breaks out in a rash whenever she passes a buggy. A one-night stand results in an unwanted pregnancy, but just how unwanted is it? Samantha is besotted with her baby. But how is Chris, her husband, coping wit...

Beach House by Jane Green

Beach House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141022031
RRP: $24.95

Nan is an independent, free-spirited woman who couldn't care less what people think about her living alone in her beloved beach house. But when she discovers that the money she was relying on is running out and her house might be at stake, she knows that something has to change. Nan decides to rent out rooms in her house for the summer and soon people start moving in, filling it with noise, l...

Bookends by Jane Green

Bookends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140276527
RRP: $24.95

Cath and Si are best friends, both unlucky in love. Cath is scatty, messy and emotionally closed, Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy and desperate for a man of his own. When Portia steps back into their lives, her reappearance sets off a chain of events that tests them to the limit. ...

Dune Road by Jane Green

Dune Road
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141049540
RRP: $24.95

The New York Times bestselling author Jane Green returns with a timely novel about old flames, new friendships, and lives reclaimed. Set in Connecticut's tiny Gold Coast town of Highfield, Dune Road tells the story of Kit Hargrove, whose divorce has granted her a new lease on life. No longer a Wall Street widow with her requisite diamond studs and Persian rugs, Kit revels in her clapboard Cape...

Jemima J by Jane Green

Jemima J
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140276909
RRP: $24.95

Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the 'Kilburn Herald' by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing. But can Jemima reinvent herself? Should she? A ...

Life Swap by Jane Green

Life Swap
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141028378
RRP: $24.95

Amber Winslow has got the kids, the hubby, the suburban home in Connecticut, USA - and the feeling that somehow life is passing her by. Vicky Townsley is features editor at Poise! magazine in London, she's single, solvent and seriously successful - but she'd ditch it all for marriage, a country home and kids. So when one day Poise! offers one lucky married reader the chance to life swa...

Mr Maybe by Jane Green

Mr Maybe
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140276510
RRP: $24.95

At 27 years old, Libby thinks there's a lot to be said for rich husband. So when Nick comes along - lovely, funny, handsome Nick, who has no money whatsoever, lives in a grotty North London bedsit and thinks the perfect night out consists of the pub, his mates and few pints - she decides he's only good for a fling. No strings attached. Investment banker Ed, on the other hand, could possib...

Promises to Keep by Jane Green

Promises to Keep
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241954751
RRP: $24.95

Loving wife and mother Callie has always worked to provide the best life she can for her family. And as a successful photographer, always looking for the perfect, truthful shot, she knows how lucky she is to have achieved so much. That's something her younger sister Steffi, a spirit, has never understood. Changing jobs and relationships frequently, Steffi hopes nothing will ever tie her dow...

Second Chance by Jane Green

Second Chance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141021737
RRP: $24.95

Holly Macintosh is sitting round her kitchen table with her oldest friends - friends she hasn't seen since school - now reunited by an unexpected tragedy and catching up on the past 20 years. On the surface, they are all successful and happy. But scratch a little deeper after that extra glass of wine and it's not quite so straightforward: Paul and Anna are struggling to have a baby, Saff...

Spellbound by Jane Green

Spellbound
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140295948
RRP: $24.95

Alice knows she should be happy. After all she has a handsome husband, a beautiful house and membership to all the most exclusive clubs in London. So what if the rumours about her husband's skirt-chasing are becoming harder to ignore? When Joe's indiscretions force a transfer to New York, Alice hopes it might be a fresh start. And when they find a beautiful old house in Connecticut, Alic...

Straight Talking by Jane Green

Straight Talking
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141020976
RRP: $24.95

'Straight Talking', the first book 'ever' to launch chick lit, still blows the rest of them away! Are you Tasha - single and still searching? Are you one of her three best friends? Andy, hooked on passion; Mel, stuck in a steady relationship with a bastard; or Emma, endlessly waiting for her other half to propose? Do you know an Andrew - suave, good looking and head over heels ...

The Other Woman by Jane Green

The Other Woman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141024387
RRP: $24.95

Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract . . . He always follows instructions and she throws the manual away. He loves sports whereas Ellie s allergic to any form of exercise. Ellie doesn't have a mother. And Dan does - a mother who wants to take over . . . everything! At first Ellie is thrilled to have Linda as her 'adopted' mother and to be a part of the close, lovin...

The Patchwork Marriage by Jane Green

The Patchwork Marriage
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718154561
RRP: $29.95

Are love and devotion enough to create a happy family? When Andi married Ethan, she not only got the man she loved but also the chance to be a mother, to his daughters Emily and Sophia. Unable to have a child of her own, Andi saw this opportunity of motherhood as a precious gift. If only it were that simple. For this is not a happy family, and the trouble lies with Emily. Her conflicted feeli...



Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green

Another Piece of My Heart
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312591823
RRP: $33.95

Marrying a divorced father of two, Andi finds herself struggling to gain her stepdaughters' acceptance while preserving family peace in the face of daily dramas and competitions for her husband's attention....

Promises to Keep by Jane Green

Promises to Keep
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452297173
RRP: $19.95

The personal lives of sisters Callie and Steff, their friend, and their divorced parents are irrevocably changed throughout the course of an extraordinary summer in Maine that forces them to reevaluate their relationships and roles....

Promises to Keep by Jane Green

Promises to Keep
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670021796
RRP: $33.95

The personal lives of sisters Callie and Steff, their friend, and their divorced parents are irrevocably changed throughout the course of an extraordinary summer in Maine that forces them to reevaluate their relationships and roles. By the best-selling author of Dune Road....

Dune Road by Jane Green

Dune Road
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452296251
RRP: $19.95

A single mom working for a famously reclusive author in a tony Connecticut beach town stumbles on a secret that many of the eccentric and moneyed locals would love to get their hands on. Reprint. A best-selling book....

The Beach House by Jane Green

The Beach House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452295384
RRP: $19.95

Enjoying a near-scandalous retirement, free-spirited widow Nan Powell rents out summer rooms in her beautiful Nantucket home and finds her circle surprisingly enriched by new friends, returned family members, and an unexpected visitor who turns everyone's lives upside-down. Reprint....

Second Chance by Jane Green

Second Chance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452289444
RRP: $19.95

Reunited by the tragic death of one of their number, a group of former schoolmates works through their shared grief while evaluating the unforeseen ways in which each of their lives have been affected by the tragedy and their friendship. By the author of Swapping Lives. Reprint....

Swapping Lives by Jane Green

Swapping Lives
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452288508
RRP: $19.95

Longing for a traditional family life in the country in spite of her successful career, magazine director Vicky Townsley participates in a contest that has her switching places for one month with Amber Winslow, a busy wife and mother....

The Other Woman by Jane Green

The Other Woman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780452287143
RRP: $19.95

As her upcoming marriage to Dan, a proper man from a close-knit family, approaches, Ellie, an impulsive young woman with little or no family, finds herself coping with the intrusive attentions of Dan's mother, Linda, as she finds her own wedding plans turned upside down by Linda's interference and by her overpowering presence in Dan's life. Reprint. 250,000 first printing....

To Have And To Hold by Jane Green

To Have And To Hold
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780767912273
RRP: $18.95

Setting aside her dreams of living a grass-roots life in the English countryside, Alice accepts the proposal of wealthy man-about-town Joe, who shatters Alice's romantic ideals by criticizing her looks and cheating on her before an indiscretion forces them to move to a country house in America. Reprint. 125,000 first printing....

Babyville by Jane Green

Babyville
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780767912242
RRP: $18.95

Three friends cope with the diverse challenges of maternity in their individual ways as Julia, obsessed with fertility rituals, struggles to conceive with her uninterested boyfriend; Maeve, a careerwoman and ardent fan of no-strings nightlife, deals with unexpected pregancy; and happily married Samantha finds marital strife and exhaustion after a new baby. Reprint....

Straight Talking by Jane Green

Straight Talking
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780767915595
RRP: $18.95

Navigating the modern London dating scene, television producer Tasha and her three best friends contend with empty relationships, one-night stands, and men who will not commit....

Bookends by Jane Green

Bookends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780767907811
RRP: $18.95

The world of four lifelong friends--best friends Catherine and Simon, both unlucky in love, and Josh and Lucy, happily married to each other--struggling to cope with their thirties is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of Portia, a stunningly beautiful college friend with a reputation for breaking hearts. By the author of Mr. Maybe. Reprint....

Mr. Maybe by Jane Green

Mr. Maybe
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780767905206
RRP: $18.95

Libby Mason, who dreams of marrying a wealthy man, finds herself torn between Nick, a struggling writer who makes up for his lack of funds with his passion in bed, and Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor....

Jemima J by Jane Green

Jemima J
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780767905183
RRP: $18.95

Plus-sized Jemina Jones struggles with weight, dating, and work issues as she navigates a treacherous world dominated by thinner women....

Beach House by Jane Green

Beach House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143051978
RRP: $29.95

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Dune Road by Jane Green

Dune Road
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670069132
RRP: $68.95

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Dune Road by Jane Green

Dune Road
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594133992
RRP: $21.95

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Dune Road by Jane Green

Dune Road
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781597229869
RRP: $61.95

A single mom working for a famously reclusive author in a tony Connecticut beach town stumbles on a secret that many of the eccentric and moneyed locals would love to get their hands on. (General fiction)....

Education, Professionalism and the Quest for Accountability by Jane Green

Education, Professionalism and the Quest for Accountability
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780415879255
RRP: $254.95

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Promises to Keep by Jane Green

Promises to Keep
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410427106
RRP: $61.95

The personal lives of sisters Callie and Steff, their friend, and their divorced parents are irrevocably changed throughout the course of an extraordinary summer in Maine that forces them to reevaluate their relationships and roles. By the best-selling author of Dune Road. (General fiction)....

The Beach House by Jane Green

The Beach House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594133428
RRP: $21.95

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Babyville by Jane Green

Babyville
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141008646

Julia and Mark are stuck in a loveless relationship, wondering why they ever got together. Julia thinks a baby will help, but perhaps that isn't the answer to her problems . . . Maeve is allergic to commitment. Happy with her career, she breaks out in a rash when she passes a buggy. A one-night stand results in an unwanted pregnancy. But just how unwanted is it? Samantha is not prepared for ...

Babyville by Jane Green

Babyville
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718144630

Julia and Mark are stuck in a loveless relationship, wondering why they ever got together. Julia thinks a baby will help, but perhaps that isn't the answer to her problems . . . Maeve is allergic to commitment. Happy with her career, she breaks out in a rash whenever she passes a buggy. A one-night stand results in an unwanted pregnancy. But just how unwanted is it? Samantha is not prepared ...

Bookends by Jane Green

Bookends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140297256

Cath and Si are best friends. Total opposites, always together, and both unlucky in love. Cath is scatty, messy, and emotionally closed, and Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy, and desperate for a man of his own. They live near each other in West Hampstead, close to their other best friends Josh and Lucy - married, with a devil-spawn child called Max. Then Portia steps back into their lives - beauti...

Dune Road by Jane Green

Dune Road
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670020867

A single mom working for a famously reclusive author in a tony Connecticut beach town stumbles on a secret that many of the eccentric and moneyed locals would love to get their hands on....

Dune Road by Jane Green

Dune Road
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718155551

Set in Connecticut's tiny Gold Coast town of Highfield, Dune Road tells the story of Kit Hargrove, whose divorce has granted her a new lease on life. No longer a Wall Street widow with her requisite diamond studs and Persian rugs, Kit revels in her clapboard Cape with the sea green shutters and sprawling impatiens. Her kids are content, her ex cooperative, her fiends steadfast, and each mornin...

Jemima J by Jane Green

Jemima J
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307888532

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Life Swap by Jane Green

Life Swap
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718148041

From the outside Vicky Townsley would appear to have it all. Features Director of the hugely successful Poise! magazine, she lives alone in London, is single, solvent, and seriously successful. But she'd give it all up in a heartbeat for marriage, children, and a house in the country. Amber Winslow on the other hand, has exactly what Vicky Townsley wants; a huge stone mansion in Highfield Conn...

Life Swap by Jane Green

Life Swap
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718148058

We may think we are happy, whether we're married with children, living in a big house out in the suburbs with an adoring husband and two beautiful children, or footloose and fancy-free in a cool flat with a great job and lots of friends, but isn't there often a small part of us that thinks the grass is always greener? That longs for what we don't have? 'Life Swap' is the stor...

Promises to Keep by Jane Green

Promises to Keep
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718157173

Love is not an abstract idea. It is not saying 'I'm here for you, let me know if you need me'. It's making the decision, when someone close to you is in trouble, about what you will DO to fix as much as you can for them. It's a 'doing' thing. A verb. For Callie, love is about looking after her family her husband and two children and their beautiful home. For Steff...

Second Chance by Jane Green

Second Chance
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670038572

Reunited by the tragic death of one of their number, a group of former schoolmates works through their shared grief while evaluating the unforeseen ways in which each of their lives have been impacted. By the author of Swapping Lives. 175,000 first printing....

Second Chance by Jane Green

Second Chance
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718153458

Step inside the home of Holly Mac and meet her successful, distinguished husband Marcus, notice how beautiful her home is and how gorgeous her children Daisy and Oliver are. You might say they are the perfect family, but you would be very wrong . . . Holly is desperately lonely. She has spent her entire married life trying to be the perfect wife but she is missing the one thing she really wants ...

Spellbound by Jane Green

Spellbound
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141012452

Alice knows she should be happy. After all, she has a handsome husband, a beautiful house and membership to all the most exclusive clubs in London. So what if the rumours about her husband's skirt-chasing are becoming harder to ignore? So what if she's had to try and forget her dreams of a thatched cottage in the Cotswolds, of a quiet country life surrounded by children and animals? To mo...

Straight Talking by Jane Green

Straight Talking
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141011516

This could be about your best friend. Or your girlfriend. Or it might be about you. Are you Tasha - single and searching? Are you one of her three best friends? Andy, hooked on passion; Mel, stuck in a steady relationship with a bastard; or Emma, endlessly waiting for her other half to propose? Do you know Andrew - suave, goodlooking and head over heels in love . . .with himself? Or Simon - aller...

The Beach House by Jane Green

The Beach House
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670018857

Disregarding local gossip that pegs her as an eccentric, sixty-five-year-old Nantucket widow Nan skinny-dips in unattended pools and steals her neighbors' flowers before her dwindling funds force her to take in boarders, a change that brings new friends and an unexpected visitor. 150,000 first printing....

The Beach House by Jane Green

The Beach House
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718148089

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The Beach House by Jane Green

The Beach House
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718148270

Nan is an independent, free-spirited woman who couldn't care less what people think about her living alone in her beloved beach house. But when she discovers that the money she was relying on is running out and her house might be at stake, she knows that something has to change. Nan decides to rent out rooms in her house for the summer and soon people start moving in, filling it with noise, ...

The Beach House by Jane Green

The Beach House
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781597227735

Disregarding local gossip that pegs her as an eccentric, sixty-five-year-old Nantucket widow Nan skinny-dips in unattended pools and steals her neighbors' flowers before her dwindling funds force her to take in boarders, a change that brings an unexpected visitor....

The Other Woman by Jane Green

The Other Woman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140295955

"There were three of us in the marriage" Ellie can't push Princess Diana's infamous words out of her mind, except Ellie isn't dealing with a matriarch, and she can't decide which is worse . . . The Coopers were everything Ellie always wanted. A large, loving family, parents Linda and Michael doted on their three children, and when Ellie married Dan, their eldest son, she ...

The Other Woman by Jane Green

The Other Woman
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718144654

"There were three of us in the marriage" Ellie can't push Princess Diana's infamous words out of her mind, except Ellie isn't dealing with a matriarch, and she can't decide which is worse . . . The Coopers were everything Ellie always wanted. A large, loving family, parents Linda and Michael doted on their three children, and when Ellie married Dan, their eldest son, she ...

The Other Woman by Jane Green

The Other Woman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718146351

"There were three of us in the marriage" Ellie can't push Princess Diana's infamous words out of her mind, except Ellie isn't dealing with a matriarch, and she can't decide which is worse . . . The Coopers were everything Ellie always wanted. A large, loving family, parents Linda and Michael doted on their three children, and when Ellie married Dan, their eldest son, she ...

This Christmas by Jane Green

This Christmas
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780758234889

The holidays can sometimes make or break a relationship. Now, in this trio of warm, witty, insightful stories, three very different women face questions of the heart that could change all their Christmases to come . . . When her husband's job takes him away from home indefinitely, a restless suburban wife and mother must confront Christmas alone and decide whether she's better off that wa...



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