A lovely, easy, breezy read that I whizzed through and thoroughly enjoyed. The story had a great concept and the characters were well written. I loved Sophie and particularly enjoyed the 'off camera' moments beginning each chapter, such as emails that would have had anyone else tearing their hair out! She met every challenge with aplomb leading to several laugh out loud moments. Just the tonic for a lockdown winter day.

Sophie is the perfect bridesmaid and she should be it’s her job.
Posing as a friend of the bride Sophie takes over the jobs that the bride hasn’t the time to do. Sourcing exactly what’s needed and makes sure everything runs like clockwork.
Then she gets the impossible client can she win her over?

The Secret Bridesmaid is my favourite type of holiday read - happy, descriptive with a touch of drama and a happy ending. It was such an enjoyable and easy read.

Loved this book! Hilarious and relatable. For readers who are fans of The Devil Wears Prada and 27 Dresses.

Sophie is a secret bridesmaid. She is hired by the bride or the family of the bride to help organise the wedding, without taking over and giving the impression to everyone that the wedding was very personal. When she is contacted by Lady Victoria Swann to help organise the wedding of her daughter, she sees it as a chance to get referral to a lot more weddings. However, the bride is really not happy about Sophie's involvement and really shows it making Sophie's life a nightmare. And on top of that, to make things even more complicated, Sophie is starting to like the brother of the bride.
This was a fun read, very entertaining and fast to read.

A good romantic story. Sophie loves being a bridesmaids so much she does it for a job. This really means she’s a wedding planner but is actually a member of the wedding party. It does take a bit of imagination that the main bridesmaid has only just appeared as a dear friend of the bride as I’m not fully sure that other friends and close relations would believe this. However, it makes for a good read and, of course, true love never runs smoothly.

I really enjoyed this. I loved how the characters were developed, particularly Cordelia. I thought some of the dialogue linked to Sophie’s other job felt a bit unnecessary at times. Either way, I couldn’t put it down.

Thoroughly enjoyed this read. Sophie Breeze... professional bridesmaid ends up with diva and thoroughly unpleasant Lady Cordelia Swan as a client- who makes it quite clear that she really wants nothing to do with 'Emily aka Sophie' who has been hired by her parents .
After hilarious events, disasters, misunderstanding and falling for Cordelia's brother..the real Cordelia emerges and so does friendship and romance.
Loved the way the book swopped between Sophie's relationship with Cordelia and emails/ letters/ conversations between Sophie and her other demanding brides.
Really enjoyable read..Will be looking out for more by this author.. Highly recommend.

I absolutely loved this book. The story of our secret bridesmaid, Sophie, hired to take in the world's worst bridezilla. A funny, enjoyable read which had me howling with laughter at times.
I would highly recommend this book . It's a real good uplifting read. Loved, loved, loved it.

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This light hearted, funny, chick lit book was an absolute joy to read. First adult novel I understand from this author but please write more.
Sophie is a professional bridesmaid, being that person the bride can't do without, in her run up to her wedding.

She lands the biggest commission of her career.....hired by lady Meade to befriend her daughter, lady Cordelia, in the run up to her large aristocratic wedding. However....Cordelia makes it very clear that she does not like, nor wish to work with Sophie. This hilarious tale follows the mayhem on the run up to Cordelia s wedding.....absolute must read.

I absolutely loved this smart, funny, wholesome tale of a professional bridesmaid who's hired to help a reluctant and, frankly bratty, bride plan her society wedding. Sophie's made a career of being a discreet addition to a wedding, a friend slash assistant, with a subtle helping hand and expert career in crisis management. But when she's hired by the mother of the bride to help socialite Cordelia plan the biggest wedding of a year, this is Sophie's biggest challenge yet. Then, when a rival wedding is announced for the same day, Cordelia turns out to be an absolute nightmare diva bride, and the bride's brother turns out to be something of (a lot of) a dish, things start to get complicated.
Sophie's a great main character, and the central relationship of the book, between her and spiky, defensive, frankly horrible sometimes, bride Cordelia is a brilliant enemies-to-friends development which is nuanced and complex and layered, and really delightful to read. The romance elements of the story are secondary to the friendship, which makes this a really delightful read.
Birchall is also just a really funny writer. There were many lines in the book which made me laugh out loud, or stop and read them out to whoever was closest to me at the time. Plus, shout out to Ye Old Mitre, a really nice pub in London that I've visited with friends back in the before times.

Funny, heartfelt, and eminently readable, this book was exactly what I needed as a pick-me-up, and I can't wait for it to come out so I can start recommending it to friends.

An easy, fun and addictive read. I absolutely loved this book and hope that there will be more in the future as I think there is definitely room for more tales from the secret bridesmaid and that as the main story ended a new one was definitely beginning. I laughed out loud in many places especially reading through the brides demands and emails back and forth from wedding suppliers and although I’m no wedding planner feel the pain of emailing back and forth to clarify wants, needs and demands on a regular basis.

Highly recommended

The basis of this book is what the title says, Sophie is a professional bridesmaid and is hired to be a brides go to girl. This book is fun, funny and highly entertaining. A great way to escape reality would be to lose yourself in this book.

I loved this book!! So funny I literally laughed out loud but with a real heartwarming feel too. The characters felt real and relatable. I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys Marian Keyes, Josie Silver and Sophie Kinsella.

This was such a good story. The idea behind it is a brilliant one, and something I could definitely see as a real possibility for a business. The author obviously put a lot of thought into things.

Cordelia is the ultimate bridezilla. Her antics, and behaviour, are brilliantly written.

Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing a copy.

I chose this book as I had been reading some 'heavy' titles recently and felt I needed a bit of light relief.. This is a real chick lit book, which anyone who enjoys that genre will probably love
Unfortunately I am not keen on books where I can see what is going to happen, just little way in. Added to that, one of the characters is called Leslie. Now, both my brother and I have the middle name Leslie. His is spelled like this, whereas mine is Lesley - which is the female version and I was irritated that the lady in the book had her name spelled the man's way.

However the concept of the 'hired' bridesmaid was a clever one and the stories of things going wrong during wedding planning were amusing. Unfortunately not my cup of tea but I can imagine loads of people recommending it on the Facebook 'Lost in a Good Book''!!

Sophie is a professional bridesmaid to help brides with their weddings. She assumes different identities so no one knows what she does. She's then hired by Lady Meade to help her daughter Cordelia. Cordelia doesn't want her and tries everything for Sophie to quit. Lovely book

What a great read! Light hearted but managed to deal with some bigger issues too. Characters were laid out brilliantly so I felt like I was there and experiencing it all first hand. Also managed a few laugh out loud moments, which are always welcome!

Loved this book from the first page to the last! A really lovely light hearted read with totally loveable characters along the way! I would highly recommend this book. Looking forward to further books from this author now. Many thanks to both netgalley and the author for the advance copy of this book. Please note any views expressed are purely my own.

This is a fun read. I enjoyed this, it’s a light, non- demanding story, with likeable characters - apart from bride Cordelia, obviously! It is well written, perfect escapism reading from our current real- life in lockdown situation.
Sophie/Emily is the ‘professional bridesmaid and the central character. Cordelia is her biggest bride- challenge yet, and the route to her wedding day is littered with incidents. Some are crazy, some are funny, and some are downright unbelievable. But I warmed to Sophie, and chuckled at some of the crazy emails received from brides, hen party guests, and ‘suppliers.’ Suffice to say that Sophie/Emily goes above and beyond in support of her brides, including dyeing her hair auburn. I enjoyed the premise of a ‘professional’ bridesmaid, it could catch on!
The characterisation of the main players is beautifully drawn, and I enjoyed getting to know them. It is a tad predictable, as all such stories tend to be, but no less enjoyable for that.
I feel that the author has made the transition to ‘adult’ writing pretty well, and I would be happy to read more of her work. I feel she has more to offer in terms of depth and plotting, and can probably challenge herself a bit more. A good author is a good author, whatever genre they write about.
My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my advance copy of this title.