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    The Undomestic Goddess

    Written by Sophie Kinsella

    Narrated by Rosalyn Landor

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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?


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 19, 2005
    ISBN9781415926765
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    The Undomestic Goddess
    Author

    Sophie Kinsella

    Sophie Kinsella has written a number of bestsellers, including the Shopaholic series, Twenties Girl, Remember Me?, The Undomestic Goddess, and Can You Keep a Secret? Confessions of a Shopaholic was made into a major motion picture starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy. Born in London, she studied at New College, Oxford. She lives in London with her husband and family.

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    • 4/5
      This was such an enjoyable book! The story is a little far fetched but I loved the humor and characters.
    • 4/5
      Obtained this title through the new Libby app from my local library as an audio book for a travel vacation. I highly recommend enjoying this very humorous book this way because the narrator is excellent and does all of the character voices and inflections expertly!
    • 4/5
      Read as part of my every-few-years reread of all of my fav Sophie Kinsella titles. And my previous review stands "Nathaniel is quite possibly Sophie Kinsella's best love interest."
    • 5/5
      Brilliant book
    • 5/5
      Absolutely Loved IT!!!!!!!!!
    • 5/5
      Hilariopus! The change from lawyer to housekeeper flowed realistically and I gave this to a friend the instant I was done so she could read it, too. I am planning on reading more of Sophie Kinsella now.
    • 3/5
      Delightful, hilarious, magical, delicious, sexy. Loved it!.
    • 4/5
      Cute, entertaining read
    • 4/5
      Well, it was funny and I did enjoy it quite a bit, so I guess it's a win.
    • 3/5
      Samantha is a single overworked woman with no social life whatsoever. Even her family can't make time for her because they're just as overworked as she is. It's not a pretty picture.

      Then life changes dramatically: No longer a lawyer, she suddenly finds herself a housekeeper cooking and cleaning for a married couple. The irony? She can't even sew a button or boil water.

      It's a cute book that serves as a reminder that life is meant to be enjoyed with people you love.
    • 4/5
      Fun frothy chick lit
    • 4/5
      This is one of Ms. Kinsella's better stories. Samantha is a character who is so focused on a goal that she has lost touch (if she ever was in touch) with what she really wants and needs. What I enjoyed most about this story was the emotion - when Samantha runs away from her life in shame, I could feel her confusion and pain. When Samantha begins to come to terms with the reality of the life she has been living, the conflict between her anger and her peace is very real. The choices Samantha has to make are real and difficult and it is a joy to watch her figure out what she really wants.
    • 5/5
      So funny, and so painful, because it's true. With bands it's posh to say that this is that group is "victimized by the machine" or something along those lines, although usually this is code for saying that they talk about love, and not *death from the darkness*. It's actually, amazing, I guess, how painful it is how obviously a phrase like this applies more realistically to, say, *lawyers*.....It's funny because it's a little stab of pain, reading about this girl.... which is why she exasperated the other girl trying to help her in like the first four pages.... Although it helps that the whole spirit of the book is that you can learn not to have a "heart of steel", as I once heard an indie guy insult a lawyer as being. "Scary, brainy power" in Kinsella's words. Unrelenting rationality, the unrelenting mind. How it's possible not to neglect yourself on their behalf. You don't have to give yourself up to it...... If there's one thing that makes Kinsella's stuff less than perfect, it's that it's very worldly, I guess, if that's the right word, and that she (the girl) is always dealing with her (funny little) maladjustments-- " 'I'm an associate at Carter Spink,' I explain. 'I don't *have* my own time.'"-- which take her a long time to deal with, I guess. The way Sophie is you always know there's hope, but I guess her great skill is that she makes it a little bit more okay reading about people who would just be painful to know in real life. But then the thing is it would be so hard to find someone who isn't maladjusted, you know!So you may as well be perky about it, even if it hurts! [And it should also be mentioned that Sophie has the real gift for names.] ...............................Some people might not like Samantha, might even get angry at her, and it's clear that at least for awhile she causes the same hurt in those around her that her family caused in her. But I think that it's better not to hate her, but to simply wish her well and understand what happened to her, and say that it's a shame. (9/10)
    • 4/5
      I'm not going to say too much about this... but I read it at the perfect time... about a month after leaving my busy-all-the-time, perma-attached-to-phone, high-stress law job for a wonderful job working for the courts. This was my first Kinsella, and I will definitely read more! She's funny and at times poignant and flippant and thoughtful and easy. Although of *course* not everything in the book is realistic, including sort of one of the underlying premises (it is a *fiction* after all), but Kinsella does a good job of capturing the essence of both perspectives. What was most impressive to me was that I noticed that my pace of reading the book matched the pace of what was happening in the book.. i.e., it was a little frenetic at the start and again at the end, but slowed down to enjoy the roses in between. I think this is a mark of a good story teller - the ability to control your reader's flow.Definitely recommend to ANY female lawyers (and probably a fair few male lawyers as well), or anyone who has a lot of job-related stress or used to have a lot of job-related stress, or anyone who just wants to be entertained. A super quick read, and fun to boot.
    • 3/5
      I didn't like this book as much as other Kinsella works, I have to say. It's all perfectly fine, but the high-pressure lifestyle of the heroine just made me feel terribly anxious - memories of my London days, no doubt - and the way she escaped it all was utterly unrealistic and made me even more anxious.So not really a fun read, though it's all fine and the romantic ending is nice enough. A bit average, all in all.
    • 5/5
      I really liked this book. It was a funny light read and I really enjoyed it. It is about a big-time London lawyer who makes a mistake at her firm that she can't come back from. She finds herself in the country taking a job as a housekeeper.
    • 4/5
      Not my normal kind of book, but I wanted something light and undemanding and this fitted the bill exactly. It was an enjoyable read and helped me to relax. One can't really ask for more.
    • 3/5
      The way the plot progressed I expected a clean finish. Overall it was Okay and the climax is a mess
    • 1/5
      Every time I come across one of Sophie Kinsella's books I pick it up although I know it probably will disappoint me. This one was no different. In the beginning it was very funny, Sophie Kinsella is very good at setting scenes and describing the most awkward situations with so much humour that I just have to laugh out loud. The little household struggles are so relatable and haven't we all at times wanted to buy a new machine just because figuring out the old one is just too hard? As the story progressed though, the awkward situations became tedious and I found myself skipping large descriptive sections to move ahead in the narrative. The realism gets lost somewhere along the way and I could find no satisfaction in the fairytale ending. But at least I finished it, which is more than can be said of the other Kinsella books I tried.
    • 5/5
      Excellent...I've already started another book by her with her real name. I'll definitely hunt down more.
    • 3/5
      Very fun and couldn't put it down!
    • 3/5
      Typical chick lit book, but entertaining.
    • 3/5
      For anyone who has dreamed of just running out on a messy life and starting a new one, a fantastic book. I got swept up in it, also probably because it's English and I liked the accent of the woman who read it (audio). It was a lazy, dreamy, perhaps somewhat more romantic than most, good getting out of your head kind of book.
    • 2/5
      Well I think it was pretty bad but I am probably alone in this opinion.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I thought it started out slow and at the beginning, I wasn't too sure if I'd like it at all but it quickly picked up pace and after about 100 pages, I couldn't put it down. Once Samantha left the city and went to the countryside, I felt I could finally connect with her character and she seemed much more real than she had at the very start. I loved reading about all her adventures as she attempted to act as a housemaid and I really enjoyed watching the story unfold. I thought all the characters were very enjoyable and the story was really fun. Overall, it was a pretty good, entertaining read.
    • 1/5
      I was looking for some fluff, something with a sense of humor. This wasn't it. The book blurb makes it sound like fun. The cutesy-cover makes it look like fun. The tone of the writing make it sound like fun. I found no fun.

      I listened to 75 minutes of the 6.5 hour CD version of the book; during that time I didn't find a character that I was remotely interested in, nor did I ever crack a smile (even an inward one). Seriously, if you're supposed to be clever, funny, or even mildly witty, don't you think you ought to put some of that stuff in the first 20% of the book?

      I'm sure someone out there thinks this writer's stuff is hilarious. Wow, I SO did not. ::yawn::
    • 4/5
      A quick fun read, totally unbelievable but it's a great escape. I don't read a lot of chick lit but this one was fun.
    • 4/5
      This is the story of Samantha Sweeting arriving in life. She has been a high-power attorney, and thought it was the only life for her, but when life throws her a curve ball, she suddenly sees that there is a lot she has been missing. I didn't expect to like this, but it was just the fluff I needed to get me out of a bad reading mood. The author has a way of not glorifying Samantha. We see her with all of her short-comings and bad behaviours, yet she is still likable. We root for her. We want her to find out that she is a marvelous woman on her own. The characters around her are very lifelike, in fact, I think I have met them all. The only thing I couldn't get a handle on was the house she worked in. It seemed to have no set shape and rooms and garden spaces seemed to pop up randomly as needed. There is strong language in the story, and of course an afternoon of sex, although it is mercifully discreet in description.I like the way this story plays off the images of feminism and domesticity, when all Samantha really wants is to relax and enjoy her life. That is exactly what I wanted from this book, to relax, and it met that goal admirably.
    • 4/5
      A perfect chick-lit book. Simply, brain-candy. Funny and cute with not a lot of surprises it was a fun read. There was a lot of flip-flopping when it came to Samantha (Will I? Won't I? Should I? No....but maybe I should..") that started getting a tad old by the end...especially when you know what she's going to end up doing and just want her to do it instead of wasting time. Even still, it was fun to read and a story where you feel a little sad when you reach the end.
    • 3/5
      Fluff book, but fun to read. Very similar in feel to Kinsella's other stories. Nothing to write home about but good beach read.