The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie KinsellaReview by Rose Gao
The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie Kinsella
So, you think being a lawyer is good? Making thousands of dollars a month, reviewing client’s contracts 20 hours of your day, spiking your body with 50 pounds of coffee. Well, this is life for Samantha Sweeting, a top-rate lawyer of London. But when she made the biggest mistake of her life, ruining the company for more than 5 million pounds worth of stock, she blindly runs away to the country side where she was mistaken as a person applying to be a housekeeper in the middle of nowhere. As a city girl, she cannot cook, clean, sew. The owners expect gourmet meals 3 times a day, clean house with clean laundry, and curtsying. As she waves through all the burnt chickpeas and ruined toasts, she finds relaxation, she finds how it really feels to have a vacation away from the stress and noise of the city, she finds friends, and she found her true love. She wasn’t a career driven lawyer her family made out of her to be but a lax, beautiful, gentle, undomestic goddess.
So what is my point? Well, it is this. If you run into a problem, you can always run away from it. No, wait. What is your problem? Is it that you just ruined a company and can’t find a way to solve it? No, there is even a bigger one. Who are you? Samantha Sweeting, who is she? She isn’t a lawyer, but rather, she is destined to be a free spirited young lady with even bigger dreams of becoming free from the city life bondage. She wants to fly like a bird and swim like the dolphin to the depths of the unknown sky and sea. She is free from the timesheets, from the noise, from the materialistic character that a city generates. She is human, not a robot. And my point is really, sometimes, you just need to look at a different angle if you get stuck trying to find who you are.