Book News: Divas by Rebecca Chance
Rebecca Chance’s debut novel Divas hits bookshelves in the UK on August 3rd and sounds as if it’s a Jackie Collins/Louise/Tilly Bagshawe-type novel which I personally don’t enjoy but I know a lot of people do! The synopsis reads:
Stunning good looks, a gorgeous fiance, a bottomless trust fund, London’s leading It Girl, Lola Fitzsimmons, leads a charmed life, a pampered princess whose rich father funds her every whim. Evie on the other hand has had to work her own way up life’s greasy pole - literally! But, having hooked herself an indulgent sugar daddy, Evie has been able to give up her pole-dancing career, abandoning New York’s seedy strip bars for a luxury Manhattan penthouse. Both Lola and Evie are about to meet their nemesis.
Overnight, Lola’s credit cards are refused, her fiance disappears and she finds herself locked out of her own Chelsea mews house. That same day, Evie is abruptly thrown out onto the streets. One woman lies behind their misfortune. With Lola’s father lying helpless in a coma, her icy stepmother has seized control of the purse strings - and cut off her spoiled stepdaughter without a penny.
The same stepmother who happens to be married to Evie’s sugar daddy. Although the two girls loathe one another on sight, Lola and Evie must team up if they are to defeat their common enemy: the Ice Queen herself. Let battle commence.
It will be pusblished by Simon and Schuster and her second novel, Trophy Wives, is due on in 2010.
Rebecca Chance was born in London and spent her twenties in Tuscany and her thirties in Manhattan before returning to London with a handsome husband in tow. Rebecca’s interests include gymnastics, trapeze and pole-dancing, watching AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL and cocktail-drinking.
Lorna, Helene, Sandra and Joss all love shoes. But behind the addiction, all the women hide various secrets threatening to ruin their lives in different ways. Lorna has enormous debts, but just can’t resist the latest Jimmy Choo’s, piling them on yet another credit card. Helene is married to a politician, but behind the public face lies a very unhappy marriage, and secrets Helene is hiding from her own husband that she doesn’t want to get out. 
