Shopaholic
Abroad is one of the books in the Shopaholic series. It is an adventure novel
with a lot of love. It is written by Sophie Kinsella (to the left) and follows the story of
Becky Bloomwooed and everything her life does to her, through good and bad.
Life is
really good for Becky Bloomwood. She has a boyfriend named Luke and a job she
loves giving financial advice on the TV show "Morning Coffee". She
has a good relationship with her bank manager, Derek Smith, but when he retires
and her boyfriend Luke wants to make his company big in New York, big changes
are in store for Becky.
Becky is
living her fabulous life in New York with Luke and loves all the new stores she
discovers everyday. Becky is spending a lot of money, but isn't seeing any problems ahead because of her safe and
secure job at Morning Coffee and also she has a new book coming out. But then
the unthinkable thing happens. She wakes up like she always does and goes out
to get her paper. When she opens the "Daily World" her name is all
over the paper. There is a big photo and an article which reveals her high
debts and calls her a frog for having so much problems financially while giving
other people advice on how to manage their money. This causes several problems
for Becky, and especially the starting fight between her and Luke is affecting
her extremely.
The
reason why their relationships almost breaks is because the Bank of London is
Luke's company's biggest client, and rumors are starting that he will lose them
as clients because of Becky's secret financial situation. Not only is there
problems in her relationship, but also Morning Coffee are firing her from her
job. She can't take it anymore and returns home to her roommate and best
friends Suze, while Luke stays in New York and their relationship comes to an
apparent end. Becky becomes depressed and her friend Suze is trying everything
to make her happier, but nothing works. Until one day.
Becky has
been shopping her entire life and has a million different things she never have
worn or even looked at after she brought it home from the store. She therefore
decides to sell all the things she has and decides that she wants to move back
to the U.S and start to work on Barney's. Before she does that she goes to
Luke's office in London to pick up a package for her delivered there. When she
walks into his office she overhears a conversation between two of Luke's
employees. She discovers that the two of
them are planning to steal all of Luke's clients and start up on their own. She
doesn't want to talk to Luke but she contacts his colleague and tells him
everything.
When
that's done she is heading of to the airport to move to New York and start a
new life. At the airport, Luke turns up and say that he knows it all because
Michael have told him everything. He begs her to stay and work at his company,
Becky tells him that she doesn't want to settle down at a job she doesn't want,
and leaves him for New York.
Some time
later, Becky is working as a personal shopper at Barney's, when Luke shows up
as a costumer and apologizes for everything. Will they maybe end up together
again?
(this picture is a scrennshot from the movie)
