Twenties Girl

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Genre: Chick Lit, Supernatural, Friendship, Romance, Novel

Summary: Lara Lington's life is not going well. While she is the niece of the charismatic millionaire tycoon of Lington coffee fame, her own business is not going well at all. Her boyfriend broke up with her even though they are totally perfect for each other, and he still loves her (although he has mistakenly changed his number because of a few borderline obsessive texts, which outlined her feelings for him so that he will realize it.) so that would eventually work out.

However, she is left trying to wrestle with a new job- running her own firm after her business partner/best friend runs off to Goa after some beach comber, and she doesn't understand why she has to attend the funeral of her great aunt Sadie whom she doesn't remember ever visiting, nor know anything about other than the fact she died at a hundred and five years old.

Now, she has always been overly romantic and imaginative, but it had never before resulted in her encountering a real ghost. Of her grand aunt. Although the ghost Sadie is still in her twenties, and is a feisty young woman, a true child of the 1920s, and she demands Lara find her a necklace that was her favorite, which she had owned from the time she was 20 years old and cannot rest without.

Review: The two main characters in this book both irked me at some point. Sadie with her shrieking and Lara with her obsessivepainfullyembarrasingohfortheloveofgodstopwomanness. Despite it all, I ended up liking the book, and the very two characters mentioned above too.

What I liked most about the book was that instead of focusing on the romance bit like I expected of a chick lit novel, this focused more on the friendship between the girl and her grand aunt's ghost. Although the love-story-ish bits were ridiculously, if a bit embarrassingly, cute too.

While this is quirky and makes a hilarious read, it also manages to be sweet and moving and inside-mushifying near the end, and ties up a beautiful story superbly.

Rating: 6/10

Quotes:

~ At songstories ~ 

Note: The necklace sounds gorgeous. The dressing up bit sounds fun. The roaring twenties sounds like it would have been both.