Twenties Girl

I have a confession to make, during my recent blog hiatus I didn’t just indulge in a lot of movies, I also read my very first Sophie Kinsella novel.

Sophie Kinsella aka Madeleine Wickham is basically the queen bee of chick lit. Her most famous novel The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic became Confessions of a Shopaholic in 2009, a reasonably successful romantic comedy starring Isla (Mrs. Borat) Fisher and Hugh Dancy. Besides her world famous Shopaholic series, she also has several novels that were published under her real name and a few stand alone ventures of which I read her most recent addition, Twenties Girl.

When I read it I was in the mood for some light-hearted girly entertainment which was exactly what I got. It’s not my usual fair and I’m not going to make a habit of reading her novels but I decided that I shouldn’t knock it until I tried it so I boldly went where millions of woman have gone before.

Anyway, ditzy headhunter Lara is the main character and she is being stalked by the ghost of her recently deceased great aunt Sadie who is convinced that someone stole her dragonfly necklace just before she died. To get rid of her bold, demanding and Charleston-dancing relative, Lara delves into her family history and unravels some tasty secrets and naturally meets Mr. Right along the way.

The plot was predictable but that’s the curse of chick lit, you can’t have light and fluffy without a happy ending right? It made me smile a couple of times and was able to entertain me for three whole evenings, the perfect fodder for my then gloomy state of mind. If you like your novels a little more, challenging, original or thought-provoking then walk, better yet run the other way.