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Twenties Girl |  | Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Book
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Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 6335
Media: Paperback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 0552774367
EAN: 9780552774369
ASIN: 0552774367
Publication Date: January 21, 2010 (In 57 Days)
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 63
 I LOVED IT!!! August 26, 2009
David Stevenson (England)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I rarely write reviews for books on Amazon. In this case, however, I felt I had to!
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br /The latest book from Sophie Kinsella, is (I thought) fantastic! It took me two days to read while on holiday - which is quite impressive, for such a 'weighty' tome! I won't go into the plot here, only to say is is waaaay above your average chick lit stereotype. Kinsella just keeps getting better and better, with her characters (particurly Sadie) leaping off the page. By the end of the book I was in tears - that's how much of an effect it had on me!
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br /Read this - you won't be disappointed!
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Just buy this book, you won't regret it! July 10, 2009
S. Bruch (Llanelli)
20 out of 23 found this review helpful
I've just finished this book and all i want to do is start it all over again! I sat down with this book and hardly put it down, except to sleep, i even read it while eating! It has everything a good book needs, fantastic characters, two love stories, mysteries, family drama and the perfect ending. Each character is so well written that they all remain in your mind clearly afterwards. There are loads of historically interesting and accurate details given to the reader by Sadie. This is one book i'm definitely recommending to every female member of my family and friends.
beautiful and funny with a bit of magic July 10, 2009
norarobertsismyqueen (Germany)
26 out of 31 found this review helpful
"Twenties Girl" by Sophie Kinsella is a beautiful and funny book about love, family and the most unusual, unique and hilarious ghost.
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br /Lara Lington's life is about to get even more complicated and weird (as if it isn't bad enough that her boyfriend Josh just recently broke up with her, that she has financial problems, that the partner in her firm just doesn't want to come back from her holiday and that Lara has to work like crazy to keep the firm from going under) when she starts seeing the ghost of her Great Aunt Sadie. Sadie wants Lara to find a necklace that Sadie always wore and now has disappeared. Of course Lara is shocked to see Sadie in form of her ghost especially because she never really knew her before and only went to her funeral out of family obligation. But still Lara is willing to help Sadie find her necklace and her peace.
br /Soon afterwards Lara realizes that there is more to the missing necklace than she first thought and that to find it she has to uncover some family secrets and learn more about Sadie's life. Lara and Sadie soon become friends and the story takes another turn when through Sadie Lara meets Ed (he's an American businessman currently working in London) and goes out on a date with him so that Sadie can experience one last date through Lara. What starts out at as favour for her aunt's ghost soon develops to a chance of a new relationship for Lara. But to have a future with Ed Lara first has to solve the mystery surrounding the necklace, her relationship with Josh plus her frustrating work situation.
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br /Normally I'm not a big fan of stories with ghosts but Sophie Kinsella really made it work for me. Sadie gives the story so much depth and I love the relationship between Lara and her, especially because she wants Lara to be happy and has some very special ways to help her.
br /Lara is the kind of heroine I love. She's a kind person, sometimes not sure about what to do with her life and willing to help Sadie even though her own life is already complicated enough. I also like that the book has a first-person narrator because experiencing the story through Lara's eyes is just wonderful and often very funny.
br /I love how Lara finally realizes that she doesn't need (and want) Josh in her life and that maybe Ed is not really the snobby American she thought him to be.
br /Ed is another great character and the relationship between Lara and him is very lovely but the book is more about Lara and Sadie and not mainly about Lara and Ed. Even though I like books where the relationship between heroine and hero is the main part I love how Sophie Kinsella made Lara and Sadie the two central characters of the book. The scenes between them are just perfect and make the book extra remarkable and great.
br /So all in all I just love "Twenties Girl" and can recommend it to every romance fan. The book left me with a big smile on my face and a warm feeling in my heart so it's easy for me to say that you should give it a try.
br /Oh, and if you can choose between the British and the US version go with the British one because the cover is just beautiful and perfect for the book.
Wonderful escapism - a great read July 26, 2009
Mrs. Carrie Smith (London, UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have now read 2 Sophie Kinsella books back to back - Remember Me and Twenties Girl. When I finished Remember Me, I thought nothing could beat it but this one has. Only Lara can see the ghost of her 105 year old dead great aunt, Sadie. Her horrible uncle owns a chain of coffee shops like Starbucks and lives like a movie star. The main character Lara must find great aunt Sadie's dragonfly necklace so she can rest. She must be a bit like the girl from Ghost Whisperer or Medium but the author doesn't dwell on how she can see her, you just accept that she can. There are some precious parts in the book about how Lara gets the ghost to spy on people for her or read over people's shoulders. There is humour, there is a mystery, there is 20's glamour and a ghost reading Grazia magazine shouting "turn". What's not to like. There is also a sad note which is true in our society about older people and how we just see old shells of people and not what they were like in their 20's drinking gin fizz, having back to back gaspers, barney mugging (?!) and dancing the charleston. As the mystery of the missing necklace deepens, you get further drawn into the mysteries of the past and see Lara who was living her life obsessed with an ex boyfriend in a job she hates evolve and grow with the help of her dead great aunt.
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br /I loved this book - one of the best I've read this year.
Magical, funny and heart warming August 13, 2009
Mrs. Jk Simpson (England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Twenties Girl
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br /Another fantastic book from Sophie Kinsella. You can't help but warm to Lara and love Sadie and wish you had your own ghost just like Sadie. This book is full fun and makes you laugh out loud. I read the book cover to cover within days. As you are reading the book you can imagine the book being made into a film. Well I hope so anyway. A must for any Sophie Kinsella fans.
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