Can you keep a secret? door Sophie Kinsella

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  • 19 oktober 2010
  • 12 keer beoordeeld
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Boek
Vertaald als
Hou je mond!
Auteur
Sophie Kinsella
Genre
Chicklit
Taal
Engels
Vak
Eerste uitgave
2004
Pagina's
329
Oorspronkelijke taal
Engels

Boekcover Can you keep a secret?
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Can you keep a secret? door Sophie Kinsella
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Author:

Sophie Kinsella
Title:

Can you keep a secret?
Number of pages:

384
Publisher:

Dell Publishing
Genre:

Novel

Why’d I chose this book:

I have read about this book in a magazine. They recommended the best Chick-Lit books. This book was one of them. At first, I wanted to read it in Dutch, but then I saw that the book wasn’t too thick, and I was still searching for an English book to read for my reading file. So the decision was quickly made.

First reaction:

It was a bit difficult to begin reading this book. But after some pages (about 10 – 15) it became very funny. I have that most of the time with books.

Summary:

Emma Corrigan is a 25-year old English girl. She lives in London and shares a flat with Lissy, who is a lawyer and also her best friend and Jemima, a rich girl who’s only interested in marrying a rich man. Emma is your typical girl-next-door. She’s a nice girl but she also has her flaws. She works in the Marketing department of Panthera Corporation and is going out with one of her co-workers Connor Martin. Emma’s particularity is that she has secrets. Not earth-shattering secrets, but little secrets. The kind that aren’t that important but that you still wouldn’t reveal to anyone, such as : she finds thongs uncomfortable, she lies about her clothes size, she thinks her boyfriend is a bit like Ken (as in Ken & Barbie), she doesn’t know where her G-spot is and in fact she's not even sure she has one, she feeds orange juice to one of co-workers’ plant, about the time she was very drunk and copied her bottom at the copier and so on. She is also very afraid to fly. So much that while on a business trip to Scotland she gets completely drunk and when the plane starts to move a little too much she starts telling all her secrets to the man sitting next to her, Jack Harper, who happens to be an American businessman. Of course the plane has landed without her noticing and she suddenly realizes that she has just told all her secrets to a complete stranger. However she thinks it doesn’t really matter since they’ll never see each other again. Except she’s wrong… The man next to her is Jack Harper, the founder of the company Emma works at. He is in town visiting the company and to top it off, he remembered every little detail of every little secret.

When he visits the company Emma works at, he recognizes her, but he never tells anyone about the airplane accident. He only asked her if she please won’t tell anyone that he was in Scotland. During his visit in London they’re starting to feel something for each other. Jack even lets Emma realize that Connor isn’t the right man for her. The relationship between Emma and Jack is getting better, Jack helped Emma with her parents, and he’s getting to know Emma better en better.
The only weird thing is that when they’re on a date Jack sometimes suddenly has to go away or has to phone someone and he just doesn’t want to tell Emma where it’s for. Then Jack goes back to America for business and some interviews.

When an interview with him is transmit on television, the whole company is watching.
When the interviewer asks him about his target group for his new project he said that his target is an ordinary, nothing special girl, who he even knows personally. in his enthusiasm he tells all Emma’s secrets. Her co-workers and all the people she knows recognize Emma in his discretion and they make a laugh of her. Emma is so angry with him that she wants revenge. She discovers his Scotland-secret. She is planning to tell her discoveries to the media, but at the last moment, she changes her mind.
Chick-Lit won’t be Chick-lit if it doesn’t end all good. Jack tells her he got carried away in his enthusiasm about her and to show her he loves her, he tells her all his secrets…

Characters

Emma Corrigan: she’s the main character of the book. Emma is a 25-year old woman, living in New York and working at Panther Cola at the marketing department. Emma is a spontaneous, lively woman with a terrible fear of flying.

Jack Harper: Jack is also a protagonist of this story. He is the founder of Panther Cola together with Pete Laidler (diseased). Jack is a funny, nice and social man. He also has his secrets.

Other characters: Lissy (best friend and roommate), Jemima (roommate), Doug Hamilton (co-worker),  Connor (ex-boyfriend), Artemis (colleague, the one from the orange juice).

Themes

Love, secrets, trust, friendship.

Explanation of the title:

The main character, Emma, tells all of her innermost secrets to a man sitting next to her in an airplane, on behalf of her fear of flying. She just hopes that this secrets won’t come out. But they eventually do: Jack hasn’t kept her secrets.

Point of view:

The story is told in the first person. 

Judgment:

The book was so hilarious that I laughed out loud quite a few times. I strongly recommend the book to girls. It’s really a funny Chick-Lit. Boys will be less interested in this subject and the way Kinsella writes, I think. But the book gets a big fat A+ from me!

REACTIES

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Wat er over Emma staat klokt niet helemaal want ze woont in Londen en niet in New York en ze heeft geen vreselijke vliegangst ze vind het gewoon eng

14 jaar geleden

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