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  • Published: 19 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804941317
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.99

Lies and Weddings

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19 Aug 2025
Tr. Paperback
21 May 2024
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20 Jun 2024
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20 Jun 2024
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20 Jul 2024
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The perfect hilarious, juicy and jet-setting summer read from the author of CRAZY RICH ASIANS

'Truly delicious... everything I want a book to be' DAISY BUCHANAN
'Wickedly delectable' NEW YORK TIMES
'Hugely fun' i PAPER
'Salacious and addictive, every page left me giggling with glee' ANNIE LORD
‘Juicy, salacious and a whole lot of fun' GLAMOUR

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS

Eden Tong is used to feeling out of place. Growing up next door to Greshamsbury Manor, she spent her days in the shadow of the chilly matriarch Arabella and her children: free-spirited Augie, golden child Bea, and Rufus, Eden’s childhood best friend.

When she receives an invite to a luxurious wedding in Hawaii, she finds herself thrown back into the family’s orbit: and face-to-face with Rufus. The future Earl is gorgeous, artistic, and – unbeknownst to Eden – desperately in love with her.

But his mother has other plans. Arabella knows the terrible truth – the Greshamsbury family is drowning in debt. Rufus needs to find a match with serious money to keep them afloat. Arabella is prepared to destroy anyone who gets in her way. Including Eden . . .

Lies and Wedding transports its reader from the white-sand beaches of Hawaii to the colourful medinas of Marrakech, via the glitzy bachelor pads of Beverly Hills and opulent English countryside manors. This is a hilarious, juicy, and page-turning story about love and money – and the lies we tell to keep them.

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PRAISE FOR KEVIN KWAN

'Your perfect summer read' DAILY MAIL
'Delightful' INDEPENDENT
'Laugh-out-loud funny' SUNDAY MIRROR
'Pure entertainment' NYLON
‘Hilarious’ COSMOPOLITAN
  • Published: 19 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804941317
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Kevin Kwan

KEVIN KWAN is the author of the international bestsellers Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems. Crazy Rich Asians was a #1 New York Times bestseller, a major motion picture, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is trying to eat less pasta.

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Praise for Lies and Weddings

Expect glorious, salacious fun

i Newspaper

Salacious and addictive, every page left me giggling with glee

Annie Lord

This novel is vintage Kwan and this time we take a hilarious dive into the Anglo-Asian billionaire scene which is populated with fierce Chinese moms, power-mad aunties, penniless English Lords, fabulous weddings, stately homes and too many secrets to mention. Imagine Crazy Rich Asians mated with Saltburn and you've got Lies and Weddings - a heavenly summertime read!

Plum Sykes

LIES & WEDDINGS is truly delicious - it's everything I want a book to be, exhilarating, clever and fun. Life is better when I'm in the middle of a Kevin Kwan book. I didn't want this to end. I think it's his best yet

Daisy Buchanan

Mr. Kwan knows how to deliver guilty pleasures . . . outrageous . . . wickedly delectable

New York Times

A plot with more twists than an Elsa Peretti for Tiffany corkscrew

Financial Times

A hugely fun tale

i

Endlessly entertaining . . . you can’t be in a bad mood while reading this book

Cosmopolitan

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