![]() ![]() ![]() Iris and Nathaniel aim to teach her otherwise. (She has another brother, but he had a nervous breakdown.) For Samantha, time has always been divided into six-minute intervals (corresponding to how law firms bill clients), and working all hours of every day and every night just seems natural. She comes from a family for whom a typical Christmas is her barrister mom reading a court report, and her head-of-investment brother taking a Xanax while he checked financial indexes. Samantha doesn’t just need training in cooking and cleaning even relaxation is not natural to her. Iris (of course) just happens to have learned to cook in Italy, and is fantastic at it. The handsome (of course) gardener Nathaniel notices her plight, and offers to have his mother Iris help Samantha. She can’t cook or clean she has always used hired help herself. Before she knows it, she has taken the job. I loved the premise of this book: a high-powered London lawyer, 29-year-old Samantha Sweeting, running from a horrible mistake at work, stops at a house in the Cotswolds for a glass of water, and gets mistaken for an applicant for a domestic servant. ![]() It’s not as if there is anything unpredictable in Kinsella’s books, but they are nevertheless full of humor and charm, and worth reading in spite of the lack of significant surprise. ![]()
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