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The Undomestic Goddess

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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?
Praise for The Undomestic Goddess
"Light and breezy . . . Samantha is eminently likable, and overworked readers will empathize with her glee at her first full weekend off in years."Christian Science Monitor
"Sophie Kinsella is at the top of the chick lit game. Her plots are fast-paced and entertaining, with the perfect amount of realistic neurosis to accompany her quirky heroines."New York Post

"Perfectly amusing . . . The Undomestic Goddess is a genuinely funny, sweet book. Kinsella is a comic whiz who consistently delivers what her readers crave."Miami Herald 
"A lovely romantic comedy."Washington Post
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      In the wake of a major financial error, corporate lawyer Samantha Sweeting wanders out of her London office in a daze and boards a train that takes her to the rural town of Lower Ebry. There, barely knowing how to boil water, let alone clean, she finds herself mistakenly hired as a housekeeper and befriended by Nathaniel the Gardener. Rosalyn Landor's narration takes in the sweep of middle-class British accents, ably conveying a workaholic's stress and her subsequent discovery of relaxation and. . .Nathaniel. Throughout it all, Landor's rough-and-ready voice brings life to this wonderful addition to chick lit. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 20, 2005
      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.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Just hours before her long awaited promotion to partnership is announced, corporate attorney Samantha Sweeting learns she made a 50-million-pound mistake. Dazed and unable to confront the firm's principals, she boards a train out of London. Dropped off in the middle of nowhere, she asks for directions from a nearby country home, and this hilarious story of transformation from lawyer to housekeeper begins. Katherine Kellgren depicts the kind nouveau-riche landowners, Teddy and Trish, with exaggerated English accents. When handsome gardener Nathaniel makes it known he's ready for romance, this delightful, but somewhat implausible, story takes off. The narration is fast paced and the outcome predictable, but overall this is well done. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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