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.
This delightful piece of fluff from chick lit author extraordinaire Sophie Kinsella, writer of the bestselling Shopaholic series, introduces ambitious, driven London lawyer Samantha Sweeting. Samantha's hopes of a partnership at the firm are dashed when she makes a career-torpedoing error. In her shock and horror, she hops onto a train, ending up in front of a country mansion, whose owner believes Samantha to be a prospective housekeeper and hires her Samantha welcomes the chance to escape her troubles and accepts the job, even though she hasn't a clue how to perform the simplest of household tasks.
- Genre: Romance, Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Contemporary, Work + the Workplace, Types of Characters, Love + Relationships + Sex, Conflicts + Dualities, Humorous Fiction
- Publisher: Random House
- Edition: Abridged
- Language: English
- Format: audioCD
- Release Date: May 2, 2006
- Date Published: May 2, 2006
- Author: Sophie Kinsella
- Narrator: Katherine Kellgren (Narrator)