by Madeleine Wickham · BLACK SWAN (TWLD) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552772242
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«A Desirable Residence» is the novel by Madeleine Wickham, published by Black Swan in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Liz and Jonathan Chambers buy the Silchester Tutorial College and cannot sell their old house. Estate agent Marcus Witherstone finds them tenants: Ginny and Piers, a London couple. Marcus gets involved with Liz, Jonathan runs the business, and their teenage daughter, Alice, becomes obsessed with the tenants; everyone ends up entangled.
Novel originally published in 1996; the present edition is from 2004. The cover bears the subtitle «What goes on behind closed doors...».
For readers of chick lit and contemporary fiction about personal relationships.
Madeleine Sophie Wickham, known by her pen name Sophie Kinsella, was an English author. She is especially known for her best-selling Shopaholic series of novels. By the time of her death, her books had sold over 50 million copies in more than 60 countries and had been translated into over 40 languages. The first two novels in her Shopaholic series, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2000) and Shopaholic Abroad (2001), were adapted into the film Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009). Her 2003 standalone novel Can You Keep a Secret? was adapted into a film of the same name in 2019.
