Awards

• Short-listed for British Book Awards: Popular Fiction Award 2006
• Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Popular Fiction Award 2006.

Overview

From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of The Burnout, comes the story of a girl who needs to slow down. To find herself. To fall in love. And to discover what an iron is for... 'Funny, fast and farcical. I loved it' JOJO MOYES 'I almost cried with laughter' Daily Mail The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella 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 e3 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 ever at her law firm. Eating, sleeping, seeing friends - even taking a breath - will have to wait. Until one day ... she makes a mistake. A fifty-million-pound, career-destroying mistake. Having a meltdown, Samantha walks right out of her office and gets on the first train she sees, and finds herself in the countryside, outside a beautiful grand house. Mistaken for another woman, she finds herself becoming the family's new 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 will she want it back? ***** 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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Reviews

A delightful comedy of errors from the funniest female writer around Company An addictive read Daily Mail Another rib-tickler from the author of the Shopaholic series OK Magazine A top summer read Sun Witty role-swap comedy Grazia

'A delightful comedy of errors from the funniest female writer around' - Company. 'Definitely full of laughs' - New Woman. 'Witty role-swap comedy' - Grazia. 'Another rib-tickler from the author of the Shopaholic series' - OK Magazine

Author Information

Sophie Kinsella is an internationally bestselling writer. She is the author of many number one bestsellers, including the hugely popular Shopaholic series. She has also written seven bestselling novels as Madeleine Wickham and several books for children. She lives in the UK with her husband and family. Visit her website at www.sophiekinsella.co.uk and find her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SophieKinsellaOfficial. You can also follow her on Twitter @KinsellaSophie and Instagram @sophiekinsellawriter.

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