Rich Again

  —Booklist

  “A friendly summer read … Maxted’s narrator has enough endearing charm to make her stand out from the rest of the Bridget Jones clones.”

  —Kirkus Reviews

  “Maxted has a quick wit and creates amusing characters [and] hilarious one-liners.”

  —Library Journal

  “One of the wittiest post – Bridget Jones books.”

  —Marie Claire

  “Delightful … humorous but poignant.”

  —Seventeen

  “Mover over, Bridget Jones.”

  —Cosmopolitan

  “[A] witty debut novel.”

  —US Weekly

  “Hard to put down.”

  —Colorado Springs Gazette

  “Love lost can be gotten over, and grief survived, but the infectious snarky voice-overs of Anna Maxted’s endearing heroine may well prove habit-forming. Get Getting Over It, and then see if you can.”

  —Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked and A Lion Among Men

  “Breezy and subversive, but with a heart of vulnerability. Getting Over It never loses its humor or its warmth—a great achievement. I loved it!”

  —Marian Keyes, internationally bestselling author of This Charming Man

  “A charming and compelling debut.”

  —Suzanne Finnamore, author of Otherwise Engaged

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  A huge thank you to a lot of generous people, many of whom gave me valuable insights into their professions in the full knowledge that my unscrupulous characters were going to bring said professions into abject disrepute. I am grateful to Matt Woolgar, Victoria Aitken, Francesca Liversidge, Charles Corman, Emily Prichard-Gordon, Rory Aird, Greg Cheverall, Ruth Brainin, Vivianne Swan, Clare and Laura at Imperial Nannies, former Commander Roy Tamm of Specialist Operations at Scotland Yard, Christopher Eddy at Chargecrest Security Ltd, Charlotte Bush, Clarissa Andreen, Deborah Docwra-Chapman, Randhiraj Bilan, Samantha Hansard, Louise Potter, Jaimie Niska, Douglas Kean, Jonny Geller, Senior Lead Officer Ralph Sanchez of LAPD, Suzanne Pye, Kevin Boone, Nick Walduck, Jenny Lister, and Tom at AllExperts. Phil, as ever, thank you. I love you.

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  RICH AGAIN. Copyright © 2009 by The Parallax Corporation. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.stmartins.com

  First published as Betrayal by Sasha Blake in Great Britain by Transworld Publishers

  eISBN 9781429986656

  First eBook Edition : March 2011

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Maxted, Anna.

  Rich again / Anna Maxted.—1st U.S. ed.

  p.cm.

  ISBN 978-0-312-57028-6

  1. Upper class families—England—Fiction. 2. Rich people—England—Fiction. 3. Sisters—Fiction. 4. Parent and adult child—Fiction. 5. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

  PR6063.A8665R53 2010

  823’.914—dc22

  2009033711

  First U.S. Edition: January 2010