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Sophie Kinsella is a writer and former financial journalist. She is very, very careful with her money and only occasionally finds herself queueing for a sale. Her relationship with her bank manager is excellent.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
Shopaholic powerhouse Kinsella delights again with her latest, a winning if unoriginal tale of amnesia striking an ambitious shrew and changing her life for the better. After taking a nasty bump on the head, Lexi Smart awakens in a hospital convinced that it's 2004 and that she's just missed her father's funeral. It's actually three years later, and she no longer has crooked teeth, frizzy hair and a loser boyfriend. Initially wowed by what she's become-a gorgeous, cut-throat businesswoman-Lexi soon finds herself attempting to figure out how it happened. As her personality change and lost memory threaten her job, Lexi tries to dredge up some chemistry with her handsome albeit priggish husband, Eric, though the effort is unnecessary with Eric's colleague Jon, who tells Lexi that she was about to leave Eric for him. Amnesia tales may be old hat, but Kinsella keeps things fresh and frothy with workplace politicking, romantic intrigue and a vibrant (though sometimes caricatured) cast. Though the happy ending won't come as a surprise, readers will be rooting for Lexi all along. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
From Kinsella (Shopaholic & Baby, 2007, etc.), a rags-to-riches fable with a twist. Self-proclaimed "sucker" Lexi Smart has a thankless job and a boyfriend known as "Loser Dave." When the book opens, our plucky-in-spite-of-it-all heroine is wrapping up a night out with gal pals in London. Struggling to find a taxi in the rain to take her home, Lexi slips on the slick pavement and...wakes up with retrograde amnesia three years later. Seems Lexi has been busy in recent years--too bad she remembers none of it. When she opens her eyes, she's in a first-class hospital room, the victim, doctors say, of a car wreck in her Mercedes. No longer a working-class drone, Lexi now has a Louis Vuitton handbag, and her previously humdrum body is toned and tanned. As she switches into freak-out mode, her sister notifies Lexi that she is also married--to a square-jawed, hunky millionaire. Talk about getting lucky! Hilarity ensues as Lexi attempts to reclaim her past and negotiate her dazzling present, while contemplating an even more wondrous romance with a black-jeans-clad architect. That Lexi discovers that her transformation from worker to boss turned her from good buddy to bitch adds a bit of morality-tale vinegar to this sugar-shock tale. Cute. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Kinsella, author of the popular Shopaholic series, returns with yet another winning stand-alone story. When Lexi Smart awakens in the hospital after a car accident, the last thing she remembers is being a down-on-her-luck underling in the flooring department with a loser boyfriend. She's shocked when the doctor informs her it's 2007, not 2004, and she learns she's running the department and is now married to Eric, a gorgeous hot-shot real-estate agent. Lexi tries to regain her memories and settle into the life she doesn't remember, which, with a seemingly perfect husband, a posh loft, and a fancy job, doesn't seem so bad until she realizes she's universally loathed at work and none of her old friends can stand her anymore. As Lexi tries to discover what it was that turned her into an ambitious hellion, she's hit with another shocker when Jon, an architect who works with Eric, informs her that they were lovers. Buoyed by Kinsella's breezy prose, this winning offering boasts a likable heroine and an involving story.--Huntley, Kristine Copyright 2008 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Lexi Smart is a 28-year-old career girl who's constantly aware of her shortcomings: crooked teeth, frizzy hair, and a frumpy wardrobe. She missed the salary bonus at the floor-covering company where she works because she's been there less than a year. The day before her father's funeral in 2004, she slipped and fell into the path of an oncoming cab; when she comes to in the hospital, it is 2007. She has been transformed, with perfect teeth, a new figure, an updated wardrobe, a bank balance, and a love life. She has absolutely no memory of the intervening three years, during which she won a reality TV show contest, became director of the carpet department, and married a multimillionaire real estate developer. Her reputation has also changed, from warmhearted chum to heartless, success-driven bitch. Mixed signals and mishaps make an endearing comedy, as Lexi tries to make sense of her new surroundings. Narrator Rosalyn Landor spins the first-person story perfectly, expressing the full range of Lexi's emotions and characterizing the rest of the cast with precision and clarity. An excellent choice for popular fiction collections. [Kinsella is the New York Times best-selling author of Shopaholic & Baby.--Ed.]--Nann Blaine Hilyard, Zion-Benton P.L., IL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.