A twentysomething with a broken career and an even brokener love life is haunted by her dead great-aunt.
My thoughts
This was a really fun read. This is my third Sophie Kinsella book (after The Undomestic Goddess and Remember Me - I haven't read any of the Shopaholic series) and my favorite so far. I loved this story in particular because it's a buddy comedy and a romantic comedy in one. The wacky heroines in this story are Lara Lington and the ghost of her great-aunt Sadie, who's stuck in the 1920s and upset over the loss of her necklace. Sadie can't move on to the afterlife until she's found the necklace, and since Lara is the only one who can see her it becomes her mission to find it. And Lara's got enough to deal with without a tracking down some random relative's random bauble - her boyfriend has broken up with her and her business partner has deserted her and their fledgling enterprise. Things get even more interesting when Sadie falls in love with a business exec and insists that Lara woo him since she can't do it herself. There's a lot going on and it takes a while to set everything in motion, but once the story gets going the action and laughs don't stop.
Kinsella's manner of storytelling is infectiously, buoyantly bubbly. Her characters are always optimistic (sometimes borderline delusional) and I feel better after I hang out with them for a little while. She's also hilarious. The situations her characters get themselves into and their reactions to them are often laugh-out-loud funny.
I was a little skeptical of the paranormal element of the story. I wasn't sure a story with a ghost would be all that good, but I couldn't have been more wrong. Throwing a ghost into the story was (somewhat ironically) an inventive way of injecting some life into what can be a stale genre.
The one serious message from this book: call your lonely elderly great-aunt. Lara and Sadie's relationship is lovely, but it's also a bit sad because they're not contemporaries and Sadie eventually has to move on.
Bottom line
Grab this book, curl up with a nice bottle of wine, and enjoy!
Fine print
Twenties Girl, by Sophie Kinsella
Genre: fiction, chick lit
Photo from Goodreads
I own this book.
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