Mini Shopaholic

Becky Brandon — once Becky Bloomwood, still a shopaholic at heart — always assumed she'd be a natural at motherhood. Then she met her match in her own two-year-old. Minnie is adorable, strong-willed, and already has expensive taste, greeting every designer boutique with an outstretched hand and an ear-splitting cry of "Miiiine!"

With the country deep in a credit crunch and money tighter than ever, Becky decides what her family needs is a party — a lavish surprise birthday bash for her husband, Luke, planned in secret and, naturally, on a strict budget she has every intention of ignoring. But between a fearsome toddler, a scandalized bank manager, meddling family, and a best friend she can't quite bring herself to confide in, keeping the whole scheme afloat may be Becky's most impossible shopping trip yet.

The sixth Shopaholic novel is a warm, frantic, laugh-out-loud comedy about marriage, motherhood, and the eternal gap between what you can afford and what you simply must have.