Can You Keep a Secret?

Can You Keep a Secret?

  • 作者: Kinsella, Sophie
  • 原文出版社:Random House
  • 出版日期:2005/12/01
  • 語言:英文
  • 定價:304
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Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:

Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.

Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.

Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.

Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger. . . .

But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse. Or could they?

 

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  • ISBN:9780440241904
  • 規格:平裝 / 10.8 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm / 普通級
  • 出版地:美國
 

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CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?
One

Of course I have secrets.

Of course I do. Everyone has a few secrets. Its completely normal. Im not talking about big, earth-shattering secrets. Not the-president-is planning-to-bomb-Japan-and-only-Will-Smith-can-save-the-world type secrets. Just normal, everyday little secrets.
Like, for example, here are a few random secrets of mine, off the top of my head:

1. My Kate Spade bag is a fake.

2. I love sweet sherry, the least cool drink in the universe.

3. I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even exactly what it is.

4. I weigh 128 pounds. Not 118, like my boyfriend, Connor, thinks. (Although, in my defense, I was planning to go on a diet when I told him that. And, to be fair, it is only one number different.)

5. Ive always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.

6. Sometimes, when were right in the middle of passionate sex, I suddenly want to laugh.

7. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.

8. Ive already drunk the wine that Dad told me to save for twenty years.

9. Sammy the goldfish at home isnt the same goldfish that Mum and Dad gave me to look after when they went to Egypt.

10. When my colleague Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.)

11. I once had this weird lesbian dream about my flatmate Lissy.

12. My G-string is hurting me.

13. Ive always had this deep-down conviction that Im not like everybody else, and theres an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

14. I have no idea what this guy in the gray suit is going on about.

15. Plus, Ive already forgotten his name.
And I only met him ten minutes ago.

"We believe in multi-logistical formative alliances," hes saying in a nasal, droning voice, "both above and below the line."

"Absolutely!" I reply brightly, as though to say "Doesnt everybody?"

Multi-logistical. What does that mean, again?

Oh, God. What if they ask me?

Dont be stupid, Emma. They wont suddenly demand, What does "multi-logistical" mean? Im a fellow marketing professional, arent I? Obviously I know these things.

And anyway, if they mention it again, Ill change the subject. Or Ill say Im post-logistical or something.

The important thing is to keep confident and businesslike. I can do this. This is my big chance, and Im not going to screw it up.

Im sitting in the offices of Glen Oils headquarters in Glasgow, and as I glance at my reflection in the window, I look just like a top businesswoman. My shoulder-length hair is straightened, after half an hour with the hair dryer and a bottle of serum this morning. Im wearing discreet gold swirl earrings like they tell you to in how-to-win-that-job articles. And Ive got on my smart new Jigsaw suit. (At least, its practically new. I got it from the Cancer Research shop and sewed on a button to replace the missing one, and you can hardly tell.)

Im here representing the Panther Corporation, which is where I work. The meeting is to finalize a promotional arrangement between the new cranberry-flavored Panther Prime sports drink and Glen Oil, and I flew up this morning from London, especially.

When I arrived, the two Glen Oil marketing guys started on this long, show-offy "whos traveled the most?" conversation about air miles and the red-eye to Washington—and I think I bluffed pretty convincingly. But the truth is, this is the first time Ive ever had to travel for work.

OK. The real truth is, this is the first business meeting Ive attended on my own. Ive been at the Panther Corpora- tion for eleven months as a marketing assistant, which is the bottom level in our department. I started off just doing menial tasks like typing letters, getting the sandwiches, and collecting my boss Pauls dry cleaning. But after a couple of months, I was allowed to start checking copy. Then a few months ago, I got to write my very own promotional leaflet, for a tie-in with washing powder! God, I was excited. I bought a creative-writing book especially to help me, and I spent all weekend working on it. And I was really pleased with the result, even if it didnt have a misunderstood villain like the book suggested. And even if Paul did just glance at the copy and say "Fine" and kind of forget to tell anyone that I wrote it.

Since then Ive done a fair bit of writing promotional literature, and Ive even sat in on a few meetings with Paul. So I really think Im moving up the ladder. In lots of ways Im practically a marketing executive already! Except for the tiny point that I still seem to do just as much typing as before. And getting sandwiches and collecting dry cleaning. I just do it as well as the other jobs. Especially so since our departmental secretary, Gloria, left a few weeks ago and still hasnt been replaced.

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這本書越看越有意思,看似很平凡的故事,卻又處處可見每個人都曾面臨過的窘境,讓人看了真的會忍不住的會心一笑。當然故事中也少不了人性中的小奸小惡,卻有更多值得珍惜的美好。如果想要重溫戀愛中的酸甜苦辣,這本是個不錯的選擇喔~
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