The way in which she creates humour is a trademark of a Sophie Kinsella novel. One such moment is splitting her shorts doing a cartwheel on the beach, in front of a crowd of people, and her new husband. Lottie has her share of the cringe moments too. The humour comes not just from the strange situations Fliss creates to prevent Lottie from having a wedding night, but often from some cringe inducing moments.Ĭringe inducing moments such as Fliss creating a hot air balloon for her son’s school project out of condoms or the one more people can relate to – a joking telephonic conversation being heard by the wrong person at the wrong time. When that doesn’t work out as expected she then makes use of people and situations to ruin their honeymoon, and stop a wedding night from happening. She takes her older sister tendencies on over drive by working with Ben’s best man Lorcan to try and stop her sister’s wedding. On the flash she has carefully documented everything she believes her ex has done wrong…and the document grows daily. She’s in the process of divorcing her husband, and as such has a flash drive on a chain around her neck. It’s not just Lottie that has extreme moments, Fliss has them coming out her ears. Her sister, Fliss, was expecting something radical to come from the breakup, but not an engagement to someone Lottie last saw fifteen years ago. Lottie came up with this plan when her long term boyfriend didn’t propose to her as expected, leading to her calling an end to the relationship. With chapters for each sister, we get both sides to Lottie’s plan to forgo dating and all of its pitfalls to just get married to an ex, Ben, who recently reappeared in her life. Over a period of just under a month, we follow the misadventures of sisters Lottie and Fliss.
Yes, being able to put aside a story doesn’t seem to be the strongest selling point for reading this, but even though you could put it aside chances are that the laugh out loud antics of Lottie and Fliss won’t have you doing so often. The book engages, but given the mostly alternating chapter structure it does make it easier to put it aside as you need to.
With beach weather upon us, this book is just right for those lazy afternoons catching a tan.
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