- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Headline (Mar 20 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0755340604
- ISBN-13: 978-0755340606
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #401,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lita Morales, the sassy heroine of Louise Bagshawe's When She Was Bad, falls for Rupert Lancaster the moment she meets him, despite warnings that he's "strictly a four-F guy" ("find 'em, feel 'em, fuck 'em and forget 'em"). But he is also utterly, achingly gorgeous and not only is he "tall, dark and handsome", he's smart, charming and a Lord to boot. At first it seems that the exotic Lita has won his heart but when Rupert's court case to regain his country seat goes against him, he dumps her and leaves the country with $100,000 of Lita's money in his tailored pocket.
His next victim is the feisty Becky Lancaster, the heiress to Rupert's English estate. Like Lita, Becky falls headlong for him, opening up her house (and her purse) to him as soon as he walks into her life. It's only when she tests his love that she sees the truly black nature of his heart.
Set against a Britain bound in industrial strife and a glossy, glamorous Manhattan, When She Was Bad follows the fortunes of these two women, who are unwittingly pitted against each other after they're betrayed by Rupert. Both stunningly beautiful, they're also "ball-busting wildcats" who will stop at nothing to destroy their rival. Extremely compelling, this novel explores the complex relationship between new and old money; the obstacles these powerful, beautiful women have to negotiate to survive in testosterone-fuelled careers and the difficulties they face being "brash New Yorkers" in a stuffy, class-divided 1970s Britain.
Louise Bagshawe's was the youngest ever contributor to The Tablet and "Young Poet of the Year" at 18 and took the commercial fiction scene by storm with her first novel Career Girls in 1995. Since then she has published several best-sellers including Tall Poppies, Venus Envy and A Kept Woman. --Jane Honey --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Lita Morales may be an Hispanic girl from the poor end of the Bronx but she has two major assets: she's utterly gorgeous, with her smooth skin and fantastic figure, and she also has a brain like a steel trap. Her ambition burns so brightly it's almost overwhelming. Life is going to give her exactly what she wants - success, power and money. Then she meets Rupert. Smooth, aristocratic and devastatingly handsome, he has something special that drives Lita wild. When he walks out on her, she is beyond devastated. Rebecca Lancaster was only a baby when she lost her family in a car crash. At eighteen, she inherits Fairfield Court, one of the most exquisite stately homes in England, along with the family business. After growing up in America, she finds her English inheritance complex and foreign but the suave Lord Lancaster, her titled second cousin, is eager to lend a hand - and offers a passion that Rebecca has never known. But the baron has much more on his mind than love, as Becky discovers to her cost. Linked by betrayal, two beautiful women are set unexpectedly at loggerheads, and discover that revenge can be very sweet indeed...
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3.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Witting and Delicious, Dec 13 2004
By Avid Romancaholic - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: When She Was Bad... (Paperback)
I've read this book many times and very much love it. Bagshawe's work may be a bit repetitive in terms of plot out line but I thouroughly (sp?) enjoy the catty remarks that fly and the raw ambition of women through this novel
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
When it was good..., April 15 2005
By L. Hirtz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: When She Was Bad... (Paperback)
I thought this book was great for chick lit! It's was really descriptive and total Bagshawe! I recommend!
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
I don't buy it., Nov 21 2004
By C. Batchelor "Atticus" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: When She Was Bad... (Paperback)
When I first read Career Girls, I thought, this is escapist pap, but what the hell, the womans only 22- so she had to get it out of her. Thus, I gave her another shot. And another. But there comes a time when the same formula gets VERY tired.The plot line is the same in all her books. Two women. One, a "curvy-assed" hour glassed figure from the wrong side of town, the other, tall, blonde, upper-class, usually British. Both brilliant, both been screwed over by a male, enemies. Then, of course, they are banded together by a common enemy, which enables them to work together and form a fantastic, taking-over-the-world team.
When I read the back of "Tall Poppies" to find this plotline articulated on the back, I nearly cried.
Why would her publishers, and the readers go in for the same thing over and over again?
I don't rate it at all. Once you've read career girls, you've read Louise Bagshawe's entire imaginative repetoire.
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