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Behaving Badly
- Author: Isabel Wolff
- Category: Fiction
- Publisher: HarperCollins(UK)
- Pub date: 18 August 2003
- Length: 368 pages
About Behaving Badly
‘One of Wolff’s talents is inventing central characters that the reader can identify with… Wolff’s writing quirks are charming. Stylishly written, sophisticated but warmhearted and accessible, this is Isabel Wolff at her inimitable best’
— INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
BEHAVING BADLY is the fifth book from best-selling romantic comedy author Isabel Wolff.
All men are beasts… or so Miranda Sweet believes. As an animal behaviourist, she’s good at understanding aggressive Airedales and irritated iguanas, but she can’t understand why the men in her life have always behaved so badly. Especially Alex, her ex-fiancé and the biggest let-down of her romantic career. In Miranda’s opinion, animals are braver, kinder and a lot more reliable. So she’s given up on love to open her own clinic and work her magic on neurotic pets and their anxious owners. Can Miranda keep the whole male species at bay for ever? Her best friend, Daisy, an incurably romantic wedding-planner, doesn’t think so, and when a delicious photographer comes into her life, even Miranda starts to wonder if she’s been a bit hasty. But, just when she’s letting her guard down, her past starts to catch up with her and she has to turn her expert eye on her own behaviour, which hasn’t always been as sweet as she’d like to pretend…
About the Author
Isabel Wolff is a bestselling author whose eight romantic comedy novels have been published in twenty nine languages, selling a million copies in France alone. Isabel’s debut novel, THE TRIALS OF TIFFANY TROTT (HarperCollins 1998) grew out of her popular Daily Telegraph novel of the same name and was swiftly followed by THE MAKING OF MINTY MALONE, OUT OF THE BLUE, RESCUING ROSE, BEHAVING BADLY, A QUESTION OF LOVE, FORGET ME NOT and A VINTAGE AFFAIR, which spent six months in the Amazon contemporary Fiction Top 100 and was an Amazon Book of the Year for 2009. Her latest novel, THE VERY PICTURE OF YOU will be published by HarperCollins in September 2011.
In her fiction Isabel expertly blends pathos with humour to create novels that, while being page-turning, commercial reads are also extremely well-written, engaging, poignant and uplifting. She has been shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award (2004) and for the American Libraries Association Reading List - Women’s Fiction (2011).
Before becoming a novelst Isabel was a successful broadcaster and journalist, writing for The Spectator, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Independent on Sunday. She has presented radio programmes on BBC World Service and on Radio 4, and was a regular newspaper reviewer on BBC Breakfast news. Isabel lives in London with her family.