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: (4.5 stars) A book about finding a life you can live with even if it doesn't fit with all your lifelong plans
Summary: 4 Stars
When this book was published I avoided it. It's a bad habit of mine-I assume that any great character in a first person book will just be recycled if the author writes another first person novel. So after Shopaholic I just thought that if I read "The undomestic Goddess" I would be reading the thoughts of a diluted or slightly warped version of Becky Bloomwood from the Shopaholic series.
I was wrong. Very wrong. My sincere apologies to Sophie Kinsella for doubting her talents.
Samantha Sweeting is a high powered corporate lawyer about to make partner. She should be on top of the world but instead her nearly 100 hour work week, equally driven (some would say obsessed) family and absolutely no social life is dragging her down. So when the blessed announcement arrives that she has her dream job and moments later Sam finds out she has made a major mistake that could cost a client millions she panics. And ends up in a house in the country applying for a job as a housekeeper.
But Sam can't cook. Sam can't clean-and Sam has nowhere else to go.
Thankfully the handsome gardener, his lovely mother help her learn to be a true domestic goddess and her clueless but well meaning employers give her the praise she's been craving her whole life. But is this life, stumbled into my mistake and based on numerous lies, truly what she wants or does she crave a return to her old ways?
This is a great story about finding your true self, figuring out what you want (or at least what you need) to have a life you can not only live but you can enjoy. It's a great reminder that everyone should take a step back once in a while and make sure that what they want, what they're trying to get, is still really the thing they want. That they need, crave. I didn't like it quite as much as Shopaholic but it'll be getting a permanent place on my chick-lit bookshelf for sure.
Four point five stars.
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