Enter the wedding planner, who makes things even more complicated. Luke’s social-climbing mother would prefer weatherproof, absolutely fabulous New York–style nuptials at the Plaza. Her mum is hoping she’ll hop the puddle and come home to tie the knot she’s put up new wallpaper and planted a flowerbed that will spell out “Luke and Becky” in pansies next to the striped marquee in case it rains.

He just proposed! Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod-Becky finds out that brides-to-be are allowed, no, encouraged-to register at fancy stores for whatever they need or want, and well-meaning friends and family will actually buy the stuff for them. But two can live as expensively as one, if the one is named Becky Bloomwood. Lucky that he’s rolling in it, because her extremely cool job as a personal shopper at Barneys isn’t going to cover the bills. Since her bank won’t keep a “little secret” and send separate his-’n-hers statements on a joint account, Becky will just have to make a clean breast of it (in a La Perla bra, of course) and admit her overspending to Luke Brandon, her live-in love. Becky can’t say no to anything, as usual, and so she eventually arranges for two different weddings on the same day in two different continents… You can listen online to free English audiobook “Shopaholic Ties the Knot” by Sophie Kinsella on our website.Third time’s the charm ( Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, 2001, etc.). Before Becky can digest this happy development, her overjoyed mother has fixed dates, brushed off her own outdated wedding dress for Becky to wear, and begun preparations for an all-out wedding in the backyard. While shopping for her best friend Suze’s upcoming nuptials, Becky can’t help but dream of a similar situation for herself, and they all come true when Luke proposes to her most romantically at Suze’s wedding in England. Becky living in blissful contentment with her boyfriend, businessman Luke Brandon, in Manhattan’s West Village, where her career as a personal shopper at Barneys has really taken off.

Shopaholic Ties the Knot is the third in the popular Shopaholic series. The book’s heroine, Becky Bloomwood, fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping but is hopeless with money. Sophie Kinsella first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic. Sophie Kinsella is the author of the bestselling Shopaholic series, as well as The Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep a Secret? She has sold over 40 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages.

Shopaholic ties the knot