American Girls About Town

A light-hearted fund-raising anthology by American women writers in the bestselling tradition of GIRLS NIGHT OUT and IRISH GIRLS ABOUT TOWN A backpacking adventure in Vietnam veers wildly off-course for one intrepid American traveller. A single mother sets herself a bizarre personal challenge as her fortieth birthday looms. A female commitment-phobe must find a cure for her fatal two-month itch - and fast! All this and much, much more in a fabulous collection of brand-new stories by Jennifer Weiner, Adriana Trigiani, Chris Manby, Lauren Henderson, Cindy Chupack, Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Weisberger, Judi Hendricks, Julianna Baggott, Jill Smolinski, Nancy Sparling, Laura Wolf, Quinn Dalton, Lynda Curnyn, Claire LaZebnik, Melissa Senate and Gretchen Laskas. £1 from every copy sold will be divided between Barnardo's, the UK's largest children's charity and the American children's charity, the Make-A-Wish Foundation.