Twenties Girl: A Novel
by Sophie Kinsella
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Author: Sophie KinsellaEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-07-21
ISBN: 0385342020
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: The Dial Press
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Book Review: (4.5 stars) Oh come on! What is the ghost going to do to me? Really!
Summary: 5 Stars
There are a few authors I would follow pretty much anywhere. Drastic changes in writing style or genera don't matter with these writers because I know that no matter what they're doing differently I'll still enjoy what they wrote.
Sophie Kinsella is one of these authors. This is how I ended up reading a ghost story.
Laura Lington is going through kind of a rough patch. The brand new head hunting business she started with an old school friend is not going well because the old friend ran off to live abroad with a guy she just met. And Laura's boyfriend Josh dumped her by email-with no apparent reason. Therefore it's not at all surprising that Laura is massively stressed out.
But stress can't explain what happens next.
While attending the extremely small and pathetic funeral for her great aunt Sadie (who was 105 before she died) Laura starts to hear a voice. A voice that gets louder. A voice that gets demanding. A voice that is screaming, "Where is my necklace?"
A voice only Laura can hear.
The voice is soon followed by a body of a young woman in twenties style clothing.
Whose name happens to be Sadie.
Laura's not sure if she's going crazy or not, but one thing is obvious. The only way to get Sadie to shut up is by doing what she wants-and what she wants is the funeral stopped until she has her treasured dragonfly necklace back. Laura goes along with it because having a ghost screaming in your ear can be pretty annoying and anyway, nobody else can help. Besides-how hard can this possibly be? And it's not like Sadie can do anything to make Laura's life more difficult-can she?
And so starts Laura's crazy adventure to track down the only thing that will let her great aunt rest properly-and uncover some crazy family secrets at the same time.
Like all of Kinsella's books this is a novel filled with funny little observations about life, dating, parents, men and making your way when you're just starting out in life. All of the cute little details that just scream Sophie Kinsella are present as well. But in spite of its possibility for a slightly heavier emotional context, "Twenties Girl" ends up being more cute than anything else. And yes, Cuteness is usually the main attraction to chick lit and Sophie Kinsella does write chick lit but after last years "Remember Me?" I guess I expected her next book would have a little more emotional intelligence to it.
Not that this isn't emotionally intelligent. It's just...well, the romance is barely laid out at all. Huge revelations end up being treated as a little silly. And though there is a lot of very sad stuff about how Sadie was treated by her family as she aged, the message about age devaluing people is never really punched home the way it could have been.
But when all is said and done the witty dialog, real messages about friendship and all the great twenties clothes are what will stick with you. I also loved that the major message in the book wasn't to cherish to your old people before they die, but to always remember that once upon a time we were all young.
Four point five stars.
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