Every time I think that she can’t top her last book—she does. Sophie Kinsella’s latest novel, Twenties Girl, is brilliant, well-crafted and absolutely hilarious.  

Lara Lington’s life isn’t going according to plan. The 27-year-old London woman’s boyfriend broke up with her; she quit her job to start a dead-end business with her “partner” who ran off on vacation; her family drives her insane; and her parents think she’s too attached to her feelings about her ex-boyfriend and are hesitant about her “new job.” Lara pretends to be just fine.

However, she’s not fine. She’s worried, scared and sad. And the last thing she needs is her dead 105-year-old Great Aunt Sadie haunting her.

Sadie and Lara are from two different times: Lara from 2009 and Sadie from the 1920s. Together, they fight as if they were sisters, they investigate as if they were detectives, and they go on some very strange adventures throughout London and experience the impossible. And they have a blast messing with peoples’ minds.

There is also embarrassment on Lara’s part when she’s caught talking to thin air at random times, when she loses a client during a business meeting and when she asks a random stranger on a date in front of a lot of  people because Sadie is attracted to him and plans on going on a date with him through Lara.

There are definite laugh-out-loud scenes in this book. Kinsella experiments with fashion, jewelry, makeup, music, dancing, language, love and life. It is a must read. And just as Confessions of a Shopaholic was made into a movie, Twenties Girl should also be made into one.

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Priya’s Facts: Priya Shah lives in Chicago. She is a student at Columbia College Chicago, where she is studying Magazine Journalism and fiction writing. She has been a staff writer for GMO for about two years, and is also an intern. She also writes for a small Indian community newspaper and has worked with Columbia College Chicago school magazine, Echo, in spring 2009.  She’s highly interested in women related topics and wants to write about it. She can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it