Lexi Smart wakes up soon after a thump on the head in 2007 and finds she has forgotten all that has happened to her since 2004. In Remember Me? she hangs her story on a creaky device – a young woman develops amnesia after a car accident – and her tale gets more improbable from there. Unlike many bestselling authors, Kinsella also knows how to plot. It is inconceivable that she would write, as Stephenie Meyer does in The Host, “It’s a voluntary choice.” If that seems slim basis for an endorsement, you probably walk right past all those books with embossed metallic covers each time you enter a bookstore. Educated at Oxford University, Kinsella respects the language of King James and Monty Python. Kinsella has two virtues that are as apparent here as in her first Madeleine Wickham novels. And so it is with Remember Me?: If you have a choice between this book and a Danielle Steel novel at the airport, it’s no contest. But fried Mars bars are more filling than the handful of Sour Gummi Bears you often get from romance-novels-gone-mainstream like this one. It doesn’t: Remember Me? is the literary equivalent of a fried Mars bar. I liked the Madeleine Wickham novels I read, including A Desirable Residence, and hoped her new book would mark a return to their form – that of the quiet English novel of manners updated for the age of house lust and two-career couples. But Sophie Kinsella wrote under that name – her real one – before she adopted the pseudonym that appears on her bestselling “Shopaholic” series. Remember Madeleine Wickham? Unless you’re English, you probably don’t. What if you woke up after an accident and couldn’t remember all the important things that had happened since 2004, such as that Brad and Jennifer broke up? 'Life doesn't get much better than a new Sophie Kinsella novel' RED 'I almost cried with laughter' DAILY MAIL 'I couldn't put it down.' LOUISE PENTLAND (SprinkleofGlitter) ***** EVERYBODY LOVES SOPHIE KINSELLA: ***** What the **** happened to her? Will she ever remember? And what will happen if she does? He's drawn up a 'marriage manual', which should help.īut soon she realises her perfect life isn't all it seems. And she'll definitely have a fantastic marriage once she gets to know her husband again. She can't believe her luck - especially when she sees her stunning new loft apartment. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually three years later - she's a super-toned twenty-eight-year-old, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department - and she's married to a good-looking millionaire! Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella
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