handy? You just bung them in whenever you want and instantly look clever.
Magnus says footnotes are for things which aren’t your main concern but nevertheless hold some interest for you. So. This is my footnote about footnotes.
2. Which, actually, I never say. Just like Humphrey Bogart never said, ‘Play it again, Sam.’ It’s an urban myth.
3. Of course, the hotel wasn’t on fire. The system had short-circuited. I found that out afterwards, not that it was any consolation.
4. Did Poirot ever say ‘Oh my God’? I bet he did. Or ‘Sacrebleu!’ which comes to the same thing. And does this not disprove Antony’s theory since Poirot’s grey cells are clearly stronger than anyone else’s? I might point this out to Antony one day. When I’m feeling brave. (Which, if I’ve lost the ring, will be never, obviously.)
5. Weak mind.
6. I’m allowed to give myself at least a
chance
of getting it back safely and him never having to know, aren’t I?
About the Author
Sophie Kinsella is an international bestselling writer and former financial journalist. She is the author of the number-one bestsellers
Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?
and
Twenties Girl
as well as the hugely popular Shopaholic novels, the first of which has become the Hollywood movie
Confessions of a Shopaholic
. She lives in London with her husband and children.
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Also by Sophie Kinsella
THE SECRET DREAMWORLD OF A SHOPAHOLIC
(also published as CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC)
SHOPAHOLIC ABROAD
SHOPAHOLIC TIES THE KNOT
SHOPAHOLIC & SISTER
SHOPAHOLIC & BABY
MINI SHOPAHOLIC
CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?
THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS
REMEMBER ME?
TWENTIES GIRL
I’VE GOT YOUR NUMBER
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