The Undomestic Goddess
Perfect Escapism from the Number One Bestseller
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'Funny, fast and farcical. I loved it' JOJO MOYES
From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of The Burnout, comes a hilarious romantic comedy about a girl who needs to slow down. To find herself. To fall in love. And to discover what an iron is for. . .
My name is Samantha. I am twenty-nine years old. I have never baked a loaf of bread in my life. I don't know how to unfold an ironing board. What I do know is how to construct a contract exploiting European corporate tax harmonisation and save my client £3 million.
Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London who thrives under pressure. She works all hours, has no home life, and only cares about becoming the youngest partner at her law firm. Eating, sleeping, seeing friends – even taking a breath – will have to wait.
But just when she’s about to get everything she has ever wanted, Samantha makes a mistake. A fifty-million-pound, career-destroying mistake. Unable to face the consequences, she does the unimaginable and runs away. . .
Catching the first train she can, Samantha finds herself in the countryside, outside a beautiful grand house. Mistaken for another woman, she falls into a new job as the family’s housekeeper. They have no idea they've hired a Cambridge educated lawyer with an IQ of 158 who doesn’t know how to work a washing machine, let alone an oven.
Gradually Samantha starts to learn. She learns how to bake bread, she learns how to slow down, falling in love with her new reality in a wholly unexpected way. Then her old life threatens to catch up with her . . . but does she want it back?
'I almost cried with laughter' DAILY MAIL
***A SOPHIE KINSELLA FAN FAVOURITE***
'Over the years I have read this book countless times and still don't get bored of it.' 5-STAR Reader Review
'A story you would love to jump into and live it yourself.' 5-STAR Reader Review
'I can't help it, I laughed and I welled up.' 5-STAR Reader Review
'Fun reading that gives you a warm fuzzy glow.' 5-STAR Reader Review
'A book I am happy to go back to over and over again.' 5-STAR Reader Review
***** EVERYBODY LOVES SOPHIE KINSELLA: *****
'I couldn’t put it down.' LOUISE PENTLAND (SprinkleofGlitter)
'Life doesn't get much better than a new Sophie Kinsella novel' RED
'Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page' JENNY COLGAN
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Samantha Sweeting, the 29-year-old heroine of Kinsella's latest confection (after Shopaholic Sister), is on the verge of partnership at the prestigious London law firm Carter Spink the Holy Grail of her entire workaholic life. But when she finds she has made a terrible, costly mistake just before the partnership decision, she's terrified of being fired. In a fog, she stumbles out of the building and onto the nearest train, which drops her in the countryside, where she wanders to a stately home. The nouveau riche lady of the house mistakes her for the new housekeeper and Samantha is too astonished to correct her. Numb and unable to face returning to London, Samantha tries to master the finer points of laundry, cooking and cleaning. She discovers that the slow life, her pompous but good-hearted employers and the attentions of the handsome gardener, Nathaniel, suit her just fine. But her past is hard to escape, and when she discovers a terrible secret about her firm and when the media learns that the former legal star is scrubbing toilets for a living her life becomes more complicated than ever. If readers can swallow the implausible scenario, then Kinsella's genuine charm and sweet wit may continue to win her fans.
