Sophie Kinsella’s The Undomestic Goddess is a refreshing story about what happens when a corporate lawyer makes a career-ending mistake. Samantha Sweeting is a 29-year-old attorney with the prestigious law firm of Carter Spink. She is an entrepreneurial career woman who works very hard to achieve her dream of becoming a partner, just when she finds out that she has achieved her goal, her world begins to fall apart. While she is cleaning the desk she finds a note, that means she did the unthinkable, she made a mistake. It’s not a small mistake, but one that destroys her life and leads her to flee from her previous life. Leaving her office, she boards a train without even knowing where she is going. After too many mini bottles of alcohol and a headache, she thinks about asking for directions in a big house, but somehow ends up taking the job as a housekeeper.

Samantha’s former life as a lawyer is over, so she thinks she can become a housekeeper, which is difficult for a woman who can’t cook, clean, iron, or do anything related to the job she just took on. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Geiger, think she is a brilliant chef, trained under a Michelin star chef and have no idea that they have a corporate lawyer curtsying and scrubbing her bathrooms. They think she’s a bit slow and can’t even believe she speaks English! They even want to help her get grades after finding out that she has a unique talent for calculating large sums in her head.

Samantha starts her job and although she has a few mishaps involving ordering food from caterers, accidentally washing her clothes and turning them red and costing over a thousand pounds to replace, she begins to figure things out.

The book is about a journey of self-discovery and how Samantha’s new career change can change her life in other ways. From pale, overworked and exhausted, Samantha tans and relaxes, even changing her hair color. On this trip she meets Nathaniel, the gardener who doesn’t like lawyers even though she tells him he is.

The book has many twists and turns and is well worth reading.

If you like Sophie Kinsella’s earlier work, you will enjoy this book. Thought through in unrealistic moments, I think that’s what makes these books such an enjoyable read.

I would give it a 7/10.

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