Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Chloe needs a holiday. She's sick of making wedding dresses, her partner Philip has troubles at work, and the whole family wants a break. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain--perfect.
Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife Amanda seems more interested in her new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it, he barely has time for his children. Maybe he'll have a chance to bond with them on holiday. His old friend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain--perfect.
Both families arrive at the villa and realize the awful truth--Gerard has double-booked. What no one else realizes is that Chloe and Hugh have a history; and as tensions rise within the two families, old passions resurface. It seems that Gerard's 'accidental' double booking may not be an accident after all...
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Customer Reviews:
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 Sleeping Arrangements February 15, 2010
Beth Gladstone
This is a great book. Fun easy reading! I have read alot of Sophie Kinsella books and didn't know that Madeleine Wickham is the same author. I plan to buy and read others by her
 She's just plain fun November 2, 2009
Victoria (Florida)
Wickham is fun, no matter what name she uses. I absolutely love to pick up one of her books to make me smile, laugh, and forget about all the stress in life. She's my number one pick right now for a "staycation" - even if just for one afternoon. This particular book isn't her best by a longshot, but it makes for a great day at the beach or in front of the fire, just escaping for a bit.
SORTING OUT THE VILLA October 23, 2009
Laurel-Rain Snow "Rain" (Fresno, California)
Sleeping Arrangements embodies the hopes and dreams of two stressed-out families.
Chloe and Philip are facing some serious financial and work-related concerns; their relationship is showing the strain of years of day-to-day life; and the promise of a villa in Spain for one week sounds like a Mecca for untold delights.
Then we have Hugh and Amanda--with their seemingly perfect life, free from financial strain, with all the comforts one could ask for--but to them, too, the villa sounds like an answer. To what, we don't know.
When Gerard loans each of them the villa (telling them separately, of course), they each think they're in for a delightful holiday.
Hugh and Amanda arrive first and have already settled in, with their children and their outspoken nanny Jenna, when Chloe and Philip and their two children descend.
A great deal of chaos ensues as they try to straighten it all out. Well, the house is huge, after all...they'll just make do.
But what unfolds in the following days is the unlayering of secrets, old wounds, lost love--while other unimaginable events transpire to turn this into so much more than a routine vacation in Spain.
Will the past histories of the individuals be revealed? Can they go back in time and change the choices they made years before, and if so, what will these choices mean for their futures? And did Gerard plan and manipulate these events for some unknown agenda of his own?
You'll find the answers in these pages, but while you're discovering it all, you'll have a rollicking good time exploring the relationships between the characters and coming to understand, with them, that sometimes, you just can't go back.
A lively, enjoyable read, I gave it five stars.
 Funny Light read September 9, 2009
LCR (Florida)
Funny Light summer read. Enjoyed for a diversion, storyline is somewhat predictable, but fun anyway. Shipping was super and very fast. Perfect condition.
 Should've gone to the library for this one... August 25, 2009
J.L. Cocca (New Jersey)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm very angry with myself for giving in to an impulse buy for this book. The plot was thin, the characters were annoying and I was praying for the end long before the midway point. Sadly, there's really not much else I can say...
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