be careful what you wish for by alexandra potter

She would love to live close to the sea, eat more healthy food and weigh under nine stone. She loves making wishes, but nothing big such as world peace or anything. Heather is your everyday British freckled and with scarlet wavy hair red head. Stuffy offices, stinking traffic fumes and tube trains without air-conditioning make life miserable. For most of the sunshine-starved population this means a blissful merry-go-round of sunshine and ice-creams, picnics in the park and deck-chair in the back garden.

'It's near the middle of July and the UK's in the grip of a heatwave. Such as finding the perfect man and being the new lead in a Brad Pitt film.īut be careful what you wish for, because what a girl wants is not always what a girl needs. O yes, and then there is rain.īecause of all that and more, Heather makes a lot of small, everyday wishes. She hates standing in queues, always has the last sandwich and always has to look for a parking spot near her flat. I currently live in London with my Californian husband and our Bosnian rescue dog and when I’m not writing or travelling, I’m getting out into nature, trying not to look at my phone and navigating this thing called mid-life.Heather Hamilton lives in London and she is a wedding photographer for Together Forever. Hailed by The Times as ‘A winning formula… sharply written, pacey and funny’ and by The Daily Mirror, who declared ‘Nobody does it quite like Alexandra Potter’, my books have been translated into over twenty-five languages, hit bestseller lists, sold over a million copies worldwide and been optioned by several major film companies.Īside from novels, I’ve also written a short story for Radio 4 and contributed to several anthologies, including Girl’s Night In, in aid of the international charity War Child.īorn and raised in Yorkshire, I lived for several years in LA before settling back in the UK. To date I’ve written twelve novels including Be Careful What You Wish For, Me and Mr Darcy, which won Best New Fiction Award at the Jane Austen Regency World Awards, Love From Paris which was shortlisted for the RNA Comedy Award and my latest, Confessions of a Forty-something F#k Up. My first novel, What’s New, Pussycat? was published in 2000, a week before my 30th birthday and immediately made the top ten. After a slight detour which involved a redundancy and saw me travelling to Sydney, Australia and landing a job at Vogue, a chance article about novelists under the age of thirty inspired me to finally take the plunge and try my hand at writing a novel. After graduating from Liverpool University with a degree in English Literature, I moved to London where I worked for various magazines. My childhood dream was always to become a writer.

Be careful what you wish for by alexandra potter