Twenties Girl (Abridged)
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4.4 • 11 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Lara has always had an over--active imagination.
Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without.
Lara's got enough problems of her own. Her startup company is floundering, her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, and she's just been dumped by the love of her life.
But as Lara spends time with Sadie , life becomes more glamorous, she dresses in beautiful vintage frocks and their treasure hunt turns into something intriguing and romantic. Could Sadie's ghost be the answer to Lara's problems and can two girls from different times end up learning something special from each other?
Customer Reviews
Entertaining. light
This story follows a clingy and chaotic twenty-something called Lara who is suddenly haunted by the ghost of her great grandmother Sadie. The basic plotline is that Lara needs Sadie’s spunky confident personality to grow into a more assertive version of herself and get over her ex. Sadie pushes Lara into a number of crazy situations and a couple of big mysteries and secrets are blown open along the way.
Kinsella books are reliably light and easy but always a little bit meh. This one was much like her others; entertaining to have on in the background or before bed.
I like the way Kinsella doesn’t make otherwise cringy moments too toe-curling. Bit different with the supernatural stuff which she handled pretty well. Kinsella uses tropes and themes which other authors delve deeper into, whereas Kinsella’s books use them transparently to create predictable storylines. This makes none of her work especially ground breaking, but I keep coming back as it is so relaxingly easy to follow. You never really get that involved with her characters and you never really care what happens to any of them but it has its own kind of appeal somehow
Shoutout to Daniella Denby Ashe for the narration, I think without her way of bringing the characters to life with the dysfunctional chaotic charm she brought to Janey in My Family being great to make Lara credible, the main character would be very flat and too crazy to be relatable or likable otherwise.
Wouldn’t reread but happy to recommend to anyone not expecting too much