Sophie Kinsella - a model for other writers!

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	• The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2006 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 281 reviews view larger image
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Fun chick lit read

The author of the Shopaholic series features a workaholic in this hysterically funny book.

High-powered London attorney Samantha Sweeting has just learned she has been made partner in the prestigious firm of Carter Spink, when she discovers a form on her desk that was to be filed with the court weeks ago. How could she have missed this deadline?

The results are disastrous. She notifies that bank and the firms concerned, realizes that nothing can avert the loss of 50 million pounds. In shock, she staggers out of the building and walks until she discovers she is at Paddington Station, where she boards a train and ends up in a tiny bucolic village--after imbibing several drinks on the train.

There she approaches a mansion intending to ask for water and some aspirin, when the homeowners take her for an applicant for the housekeeper position of. She stays on, thinking "what the heck," she can do this. However, Samantha did not know that vacuum cleaners have bags, or how to operate her oven or washing machine, and quickly she is in over her head.

Hunky gardener Nathanial enlists the help of his mother to teach Sam the basics of cooking and cleaning, and he tries hard not to laugh at her attempts. Eventually Sam uncovers the truth about the mislaid document and the firms involved, and when she informs her bosses at Carter Spink, they decide they want her back.

Read the book to find out if she wants that life back--the 7-day-a-week, 12-hour-a-day-work schedule, with no time for friends or family--or what happens.

Armchair Interviews says: Good story for fun reading.

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Fun and charming, and not much more

Having dropped off the chick lit bandwagon some years ago, I still pick one up once in a while, and Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series has always (well, almost always) been a fun distraction from life and the daily grind. The Undomestic Goddess aka Samantha Sweeting follows in the footsteps of Kinsella's other 20-30something heroines. She is sweet, and we basically like her, even though she has major flaws. Samantha is a lawyer with a big firm, until an unbelievable mistake has her running blindly from the office, very much disgraced, being called a liability and fallen from her pedestal. Next she finds herself in the English countryside, where she takes a job as a housekeeper with a rich and nice middleaged couple, even though she doesn't know a saucepan from a vacuumcleaner. Here she meets the handsome gardener Nathaniel, his mother, the people at the local pub etc, and she finds out, that the cosy and slow moving life suits her much better than the workaholic life she led - and left - in London. But the question is, whether it is once a lawyer always a lawyer for Samantha, or if she will be able to settle for peace and quiet? The book is well written with lots of fun and charming situations, but I'd say that Kinsella has milked the chick lit cow enough now, and her heroines, charming and cute as they are, need to grow up.

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Fun, light read

Another funny girly story from Sophie Kinsella. The heroine is a work-obsessed, intelligent, perfectionist, go-getter career gal -- a female archetype that I could totally relate to (smile!) She makes an (apparently) fatal mistake which sends her into a tailspin. She lands herself in a bizarre and funny predicament. I liked this book because it shows how we women can transform ourselves into whatever we set our minds to.

A laugh a minute

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. I bought this book to read on a flight from the UK to Australia and it had me laughing so loud I was quite an embarrassment! I'm not a 'chick lit' kind of girl but this was a real exception. As an author myself I really admire the talent it takes to write a book where almost every line makes you smile or laugh. Pure escapism, very charming and such good fun, and somehow it also manages to be a book which makes you take stock of what really counts in life. This should be compulsory reading for every workaholic - and certainly every lawyer. Enjoy!

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Sophie Kinsella - a model for other writers!

I love every book that Sophie Kinsella has written. Her books are entertaining and engaging. Her character development in this book (as well as all of her other books) is excellent - I feel like the main character is a good friend of mine becasue I know her so well. I HIGHLY recommend this book!

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