I Owe You One

I'd forgotten just how entertaining Sophie Kinsella's novels are until I picked up her recent I Owe You One (#835).  It's the perfect summer read: girl meets boy, falls in love, loses him, but meets better boy!

Certainly the course of true love does not run smoothly here either!  Fixie Farr is the youngest of three siblings and totally dominated by them.  Yet she is at the outset the only one who cares about the survival and success of their family run store in a not-so-posh area of London.  Farr's sounds much like what I remember the old Woolworth's being like: a little bit of everything with a concentration on housewares.  Her older brother has grand  expensive plans, and her sister is too drifty to concentrate on any one thing for long.  Fixie's suggestions for improving the store tend to go nowhere.  That is until the fateful day when she rescues a total stranger's laptop she's been asked to watch while he takes a phone call.  Sebastian Marlowe now "owes her one".  She is able to laugh that off until her brother's friend returns from Los Angeles and a glamorous career as a movie producer.  He's already broken her heart once, but could it be for real this time around?  Can she make it work by calling in that favor from a stranger?

The ups and downs of Fixie's life will have you cringing along with her in the bad moments, and rooting for the best for her - she deserves any breaks coming her way!  How she manages to make things come out right in the end make for a fun and satisfying read.  I'm ready to visit Farr's next time I'm in London!