by: Sophie Kinsella*****
Meet Becky Bloomwood:
Journalist of a financial newspaper.
Big amounts of overdraft on her many Visa cards.
A shopaholic...
Becky is miserable. She is living off her best friend Suze's flat, (without paying a rent, of course) she doesn't earn much money but wants to buy everything and she has no boyfriends. Most of all...overdraft and consultant letters from her bank are interrupting her life every single moment. She doesn't have a single quid that she can pay back.
Becky finds ways to save money-from trying to skimp and make "curries that you can make for two pounds" for dinner and failing, and trying to earn more money by getting extra jobs at a clothes store called Ally Smith and getting fired without even lasting a day.
The whole book is about how shopaholic Becky tries to pay back her overdraft and about how she meets Luke Brandon, her future boyfriend during her struggles. It's funny, because everything she thinks and does is so childish even though she is an adult.
The best part of this book, I think was when Becky wanted this Denny&George scarf and she was missing 20 pounds, so she lied through her teeth and said she was buying a gift for her dying aunt. Luke Brandon lent her 20 quids and later on when Becky bought the scarf and was coming out of the boutique, Luke Brandon saw her. Of course, later on, the scarf becomes Luke and Becky's special thing.
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