The World Is Full Of Married Men

First published in 1968, The World is Full of Married Men was branded as “shocking,” especially coming from a female author but despite being banned in several countries for its scandalous content became a #1 bestseller in just two weeks! Always ahead of her time, in her racy debut, Jackie Collins flips on its head the hypocritical double standard of it being okay for men to sleep around but not for women. Successful London ad executive David Cooper is still sexy at forty. Plus, he’s got money and power, and therefore, any woman he wants for as long as he wants. His marriage to his nagging wife, Linda, has never gotten in the way of that. When gorgeous starlet Claudia Parker enters the picture, he becomes so smitten that he’s ready to divorce Linda to marry Claudia. But Claudia has no intentions of being shackled by a ring on her finger. When the relationship falls apart, he vies to get his wife back. Except Linda’s already moved on, swept up in a racy romance with Hollywood producer Jay Grossman. Despite David’s pleas, there’s no way she’s giving up her glamorous new lifestyle for the likes of him. David soon becomes a broken shell of a man, facing his fifties alone. As his once-meteoric career success takes a catastrophic dive, he finds comfort in the bottle and in the arms of his dowdy secretary, Harriet, while Linda’s life only gets better. Will there be a redemption for David? Or will karma get the last laugh in this sizzling, fast-paced, and thoroughly entertaining page-turner--the novel that launched Collins into her role as the Queen of flashy fiction. hr Read both of The World is Full series, as well as all the New York Times bestselling books by Jackie Collins! 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women The Stud Series 1. The Stud 2. The Bitch The Lucky Santangelo series 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos 11. A Santangelo Story

It all started with The World is Full of Married Men, the debut novel from global multi-million copy bestseller and literary superstar, Jackie Collins. *Includes a brilliant introduction from the wonderful Fanny Blake where she talks about what this book and Jackie means to her!* ‘Jackie was absolutely marvellous, she was lovely. She was a very, very good writer’ Jilly Cooper * David Cooper cheats on his wife. She doesn't cheat - and that suits him fine. Until the young and beautiful Claudia appears and David wants out of his marriage. But Claudia has different ideas - different dreams: To be a model, an actress, a star. And she'll do anything to make it. Just name a price. The World is Full of Married Men is a devastating exposure of the cut throat media business - the phony promises and the very real power of the casting couch . . . * Why everyone needs Jackie in their lives . . . ?No one does it better than Jackie' heat ‘The definition of a class act’ Graham Norton 'Scandalous. Outrageous. And completely fabulous!' Veronica Henry ‘Jackie to me was the best writer of those risqué, amusing, fun novels – full of Hollywood characters and lots of sex’ Barbara Taylor Bradford ‘That smart, talented and gorgeous woman paved the road for many of us so that we could experience a smoother journey . . . with or without heels’ Sandra Bullock

ONLY FOOLS LET A LITTLE THING LIKE MARRIAGE GET IN THE WAY OF THEIR CAREERS... ESPECIALLY SOMEONE ELSE'S... David Cooper cheats on his wife. She doesn't cheat -- and that suits him fine. Until the young and beautiful Claudia appears and David wants out of his marriage. But Claudia has different ideas -- different dreams: To be a model, an actress, a star. And she'll do anything to make it. Just name a price... THE WORLD IS FULL OF MARRIED MEN is a devastating exposure of the cut throat media business -- the phony promises and the very real power of the casting couch.

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In New York, Cleo James finds her husband in bed with her best friend... and knows it's time to move on. In London, Muffin, the hottest model in town, finds her man wants more than even she is prepared to give... On the surface they have everything. But theirs is a world in which love counts for nothing and sex is the only weapon. Fidelity is strictly a no-go area - when The World is Full of Divorced Women... 'A high-voltage novel of the glittering superstar scene by Jackie Collins who knows it best' Bookseller