Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella book review

Remember Me? is a 2008 chick lit novel by Sophie Kinsella.
 It is 2004 and Lexi Smart is a 25 year old associate junior sales manager (flooring) at Deller Carpets. Lexi is out on the town stood up by boyfriend Loser Dave, desperately trying to hail a cab in the pouring rain to get home as she has her dad’s funeral the next day. Adding to that she was the only one of her friends to not get a bonus for the end of the financial year because she has not worked for the company for a full year and missed the cut by two weeks. She’s poor and miserable and next thing she knows she slips and falls.

When she wakes up in a hospital she realises she has missed her father’s funeral but that is not all. She wakes up with nice nails, her hair has changed colour, she is thinner and her snaggletooth has been replaced with perfect white, veneered teeth and that Louis Vuitton handbag could never be hers. Oh and its 2007! She cannot believe it or the fact she was in a car accident because she does not even know how to drive. Feeling like she is Cinderella she learns a lot has changed in three years, including her friends, her occupation and the fact that she now has a husband. However, things are not as they seem and while suffering from amnesia she struggles to comprehend how her life and her personality have changed so dramatically.

Will she get her memory back? The novel does have twists and turns and while trying to figure out her life, she encounters a handsome stranger who tells her of their secret affair, is he just taking advantage of this amnesia victim or does he truly love her? Is her rich handsome husband all that perfect? Who does she love? Is loft style living everything Lexi wants?

With many Sophie Kinsella books they do not always have the most realistic plots but they are enjoyable reads. If you enjoy the chick lit genre then you will like this, it is a book about self discovery, friendship and sacrifices that have to be made to have a successful career. I gave the book 6 and ½ out of 10, well written but not as enthralling as other Kinsella books. Perhaps, this is because I hold Kinsella books to a higher standard. A fair read overall.