On Sale Date: February 7th 2017
Pages: 438
From the outside, Katie Brenner seems to have a perfect life. She lives in London. Everyone thinks at the most fantastic job, and everyone also thinks her apartment is just as great. The actual truth is that she is just an admin, and her apartment us teeny tiny. But ofcourse that is something that she doesn't post on Instagram. Only her fake fabulous live makes the cut for that.
And then her not-so-perfect real life house of cards crashes into an even more trouble when her even more perfect and powerfull boss Demeter fires her.
Away is her financial security, what to do now?
Her widowed father, who lives with his new wife on a farm in the countryside, invites her over to stay there for a while to help them with the marketing of their new bed and breakfast at the farm. Because she doesn't want to hurt his feelings, she doesn't tell him anything about her current situation. While she stays there, she applies to jobs, but without succes. Luckily she can stay at the farm as long as she likes, and even more now the bed and breakfast is up and running and her dad can use as many help as possible. But then a guest arrives: it's Demeter, her boss from London! Now she soon will be uncovered.
Katie goes into full farm-girl disguise, and this gives her the chance to put Demeter into her place and go on a little revenge mode. But soon she finds out that under Demeter's well build up polished world, a very insecure woman is hiding, just like herself. Things get even worse when another coworker appears at the farm for a little stay, and when he confesses to Katie he is only there to fire Demeter, she goes out of her way to help Demeter, but will everything will go according to plan?
My Not So Perfect Life is a nice new novel by bestselling author that we all know from the Shopaholic series, Sophie Kinsella. Altough it was good, it missed the laugh-out-loud moments that the other books by her have. I just missed that in this one. Maybe it wasn't intended to be the same kind of comedy, but with this author you somehow expect it.
Further on it was the usual clumsy main character, somehow this is always a returning aspect of Sophie Kinsella's book, but luckily she finds out her bos is just as normal as her in real life, that was fun! There is also a little romance going on between her and her coworker Alex who also stays at the farm later on. It was cute but just the usual stuff.
Overall nice and at some points entertaining, altough it isn't the strongest book by Sophie Kinsella.
Away is her financial security, what to do now?
Her widowed father, who lives with his new wife on a farm in the countryside, invites her over to stay there for a while to help them with the marketing of their new bed and breakfast at the farm. Because she doesn't want to hurt his feelings, she doesn't tell him anything about her current situation. While she stays there, she applies to jobs, but without succes. Luckily she can stay at the farm as long as she likes, and even more now the bed and breakfast is up and running and her dad can use as many help as possible. But then a guest arrives: it's Demeter, her boss from London! Now she soon will be uncovered.
Katie goes into full farm-girl disguise, and this gives her the chance to put Demeter into her place and go on a little revenge mode. But soon she finds out that under Demeter's well build up polished world, a very insecure woman is hiding, just like herself. Things get even worse when another coworker appears at the farm for a little stay, and when he confesses to Katie he is only there to fire Demeter, she goes out of her way to help Demeter, but will everything will go according to plan?
My Not So Perfect Life is a nice new novel by bestselling author that we all know from the Shopaholic series, Sophie Kinsella. Altough it was good, it missed the laugh-out-loud moments that the other books by her have. I just missed that in this one. Maybe it wasn't intended to be the same kind of comedy, but with this author you somehow expect it.
Further on it was the usual clumsy main character, somehow this is always a returning aspect of Sophie Kinsella's book, but luckily she finds out her bos is just as normal as her in real life, that was fun! There is also a little romance going on between her and her coworker Alex who also stays at the farm later on. It was cute but just the usual stuff.
Overall nice and at some points entertaining, altough it isn't the strongest book by Sophie Kinsella.
