Product Description

Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - she's twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department - and she's married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life??! She can't believe her luck - especially when she sees her stunning new home. She's sure she'll have a fantastic marriage once she gets to know her husband again. He's drawn up a 'manual of our marriage', which should help. But as she learns more about her new self, chinks start to appear in the perfect life. All her old colleagues hate her. A rival is after her job. Then a dishevelled, sexy guy turns up...and lands a new bombshell. What happened to her? Will she ever remember? And what will happen if she does?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3183 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

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. (Kirkus Reviews)

Mail on Sunday
Sophie Kinsella returns with another cracker...A page-turner by arguably the best pop-fiction novelist

Eve
A deliciously intriguing and hilarious novel that will have you hooked til the end

Customer Reviews

Very disappointing - not at all like The Undomestic Goddess
This book was so disappointing. It doesn't have the flow or the same humour as Sophie Kinsella's other writing. The main heroine is annoying, useless and frankly you have so little sympathy for her. I would read Kinsella's other books and avoid this book as it feels rushed through for publication.

I found it disappointing too...
I really am a fan of Sophie Kinsella and have laughed until I cried when reading all her other books. This one was a disappointment in comparison - not a completely awful read but despite the far-fetched tale, somehow lacking the ingenuity of her other stories.

You get the sense that there's no real care in the story or the characters and it's devoid of the laugh out loud jokes that characterise her other books.

A shame, then, but I hope we'll soon be reading the next instalment in Shopaholic's life as a yummy mummy and no doubt the author will be back on top form.

An entertaining, light & easy book to read
A friend let me borrow her copy of this book and I must say, its not the sort of book I would normally choose. However, I was inbetween Amazon deliveries and books just read so I decided to give it a go.

This book made me giggle, it kept me entertained, it was light hearted escapism. It was like watching Heartbeat on a Sunday evening. It was a warm and cosy read. I liked it!

I was crying at the end, not because I was sad or that it was a sad ending. It was a lovely, happy ending and THAT is why I cried, because it was so happy!! Does that make sense?

A good read and I will probably try some of Sophie Kinsellas other novels now.