The Undomestic Goddess
Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership.She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day... she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge, it'll wreck her career.She walks right out of the office, gets on the...
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Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership.She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day... she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge, it'll wreck her career.She walks right out of the office, gets on the first train she sees, and finds herself in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she is mistaken for the interviewee housekeeper and finds herself being offered the job. They have no idea they've hired a Cambridge-educated lawyer with an IQ of 158 - Samantha has no idea how to work the oven.Disaster ensues. It's chaos as Samantha battles with the washing machine...the ironing board...and attempts to cook a cordon bleu dinner.But gradually, she falls in love with her new life in a wholly unexpected way.Will her employers ever discover the truth? Will Samantha's old life ever catch up with her? And if it does...will she want it back?
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781409081166 (1409081168)
Publish date: June 26th 2009
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Contemporary Romance,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Hey everyone and how's it going? I hope you all are doing Fantastic, I'm not doing to bad myself! Well, I am back again with an update and a challenge. So, after I have finished updating you all yesterday, I actually read a bit more of "The Count of Monte Cristo" and I'm still liking it. I have been...
"The Undomestic Goddess" was really funny. I really though this was cute and the only reason I didn't give it five stars is that I wish we had seen more of Samantha pushing back against her family and her so called profession up front. The ending kind of faltered a bit to me, but all in all really e...
Weer een chicklit geprobeerd, weer teleurgesteld.Zoals gewoonlijk leest het makkelijk weg, maar het verhaal is gewoon heel vergezocht, de romantiek cliché, en erg voorspelbaar.
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 ...