Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella
When you shop, the world gets better...or does it?
Becky Bloomwood is a financial journalist with a very distressful weakness
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—she can't stop shopping! Clothes, jewelery, accessories, makeup, perfumes... She can't say No, no matter what. For her, the sight of a shop melts her like butter on hot toast. It's no surprise that soon she falls into dept and is not able to make credit card monthly payments.
Letters from her bank begin to arrive, but better than read them, she stuffs them in a drawer, unopened. The bank manager tries to make an appointment, but Becky gives him the most quirky excuses: she breaks her leg, she has glandular fever, her Aunt dies... and so on and so forth. Then one day at a store, all her credit cards are rejected and she's unable to shop. Hysterical, she tries to come up with various ways to make more money, but none prove fruitful.
The Evaluation
This is a fast read that will be enjoyed by fans of chick-lit and women's contemporary fiction. It is also the perfect book to bring on a holiday, light and humorous. The protagonist, with all her human flaws, is quite endearing. There's a bit of a compulsive shopper in everyone and this element makes the story more appealing. Certainly it is a novel most readers can identify with, one that reminds us of the materialistic world we live in. The dialogue is natural but at times it goes on and on unnecessarily. In spite of this, Confessions of a Shopaholic is an entertaining and very cute read.
About the Author:
Sophie Kinsella, aka Madeleine Wickham, raced to the top of the bestseller lists in September 2000 when her novel The Secret Dreamworld of A Shopaholic was published by Black Swan. The book’s heroine, Becky Bloomwood – a fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping but is hopeless with money – captured the hearts of readers worldwide and she has since gone on to further adventures in Shopaholic Abroad, Shopaholic Ties the Knot and Shopaholic and Sister, and has sold over two million copies to date. Sophie’s two stand-alone novels, Can You Keep A Secret and The Undomestic Goddess were both number one bestsellers, and have sold in the region of three quarters of a million copies each.
Sophie wrote her first novel under her real name, Madeleine Wickham, at the tender age of 24, whilst she was working as a financial journalist. The Tennis Party was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike, and became a top ten bestseller. She has since published no fewer than six more novels as Madeleine Wickham, A Desirable Residence, Swimming Pool Sunday, The Gatecrasher, The Wedding Girl, Cocktails for Three and Sleeping Arrangements.
She submitted her first “Sophie Kinsella” novel anonymously to Black Swan, who were already her publishers, and it was snapped up without her editors knowing that she was
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