The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie Kinsella
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Author: Sophie KinsellaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-25
ISBN: 0385338694
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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- ISBN13: 9780385338691
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Picking raspberries was never like this
Summary: 5 Stars
Sophie Kinsella is a truly gifted writer of comedic fiction. Not only is she hilariously funny, but she's consistently so. Her 4-book SHOPAHOLIC series, starring spendthrift Becky Bloomwood, and CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?, featuring ditzy marketing professional Emma Corrigan, have provided me with hours of chuckles. Here, in THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS, Sophie has created a soul-sister for Becky and Emma.
Samantha Sweeting is a gifted but overworked associate lawyer slaving for the prestigious London law firm of Carter Spink. Samantha hasn't had a day off in years, but her dedication appears about to pay off with a promotion to "partner". But, on the Big Day, she discovers that she's apparently made a horrific mistake - the only one of her career to date - that'll cost a client 50 million quid. Stunned, she flees the law offices in shock and takes the first Paddington train to anywhere, in this case Gloucestershire. Stumbling off the rail carriage in the rural hamlet of Lower Ebury with a monstrous headache, she totters to the door of a grand old house seeking water and an aspirin. The first words from the woman who answers the bellpull are, "Are you from the agency?" A case of mistaken identity, plus some harmless white lies told and dodgy decisions made under stress by Sweeting, result in her being hired by Trish and Eddie Geiger as their new housekeeper. The thing is, you see, Samantha can't even so much as boil water, sew on a button, operate a clothes washer, or iron a shirt.
In a certain sense, Becky, Emma, and Samantha are all cut from the same endearing cloth - only the heroines' names, professions, and foibles change. However, perhaps reflecting Kinsella's evolving skills as a wordsmith, THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS may be Sophie's finest offering in the sense that Samantha is a more fully developed character than the other two. With her legal career in smoking ruins, Sweeting fumblingly clutches the lifeline presented by her second vocation as a household domestic. In the process, she finds love, rediscovers life's little pleasures, and matures. And in one sweaty sequence, Sophie describes the amorously seductive power of raspberry picking that left me wondering if it derived from the author's personal experience. By the volume's conclusion, Samantha is positioned to dictate her life rather than vice versa.
All of Kinsella's novels are chick books best read by Real Men on the sly behind an opened gent's magazine or sports page. But be careful not to guffaw out loud.
Summary of The Undomestic Goddess
Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She?s made a mistake so huge, it?ll wreck any chance of a partnership.Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she?s mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they?ve hired a lawyer?and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven. She can?t sew on a button, bake a potato, or get the #@%# ironing board to open. How she takes a deep breath and begins to cope?and finds love?is a story as delicious as the bread she learns to bake.
But will her old life ever catch up with her? And if it does?will she want it back?
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