Book info

• Title The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
• Author Sophie Kinsella
• Year 2000
• Genre Romance

Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She has a great flat, a fabulous wardrobe full of the season's must-haves, and a job telling other people how to manage their money. She spends her leisure time... shopping. Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she should stop, but she can't. She tries Cutting Back, she tries Making More Money. But neither seems to work. The letters from the bank are getting harder to ignore. Can Becky ever escape from this dreamworld, find true love, and regain the use of her credit card?

Thoughts

I really loved this. I’ve been reading a lot of crime fiction recently, and it was so nice to lift my head out of the murky world and instead into the slightly more frothy existence of Ms Rebecca Bloomwood. I’ve seen the film, and although the book is slightly different, it still follows the fun (if difficult) path.

I like that the shopping addiction is something a lot of people can relate to, I’m not so keen on the fashion part of it, but I can get carried away when there’s a good bargain to be had. Breaking up the chapters with the endless amount of chasing letters was good, a nice change as well as showing how serious the issue was.

I’m keen to see how the rest of the series pans out, has Rebecca really changed her ways? I’m thinking maybe not!

Rating: 4 / 5