Just when I thought Sophie Kinsella has written pretty much the same chick lit material for her books outside the Shopaholic series, I read Twenties Girl and I take back whatever I said. The book is more of a whimsical variety, seeing as how Lara can see her great-grandaunt Sadie, who is BTW dead, as a 20's flapper, and that she now has to help fulfil the dead woman's last wish: a beautiful dragonfly necklace. 
 Lara, like her predecessors in Kinsella's other novels, is a little naive, idealistic and ditzy but you can't help but root for her. Sadie come across as brash, obnoxious and not very kind at all. But at the end of the day, they teach each other a thing or two about life and love and I couldn't help but wish I had a Sadie in my life too. 
 Sadie does push Lara outside of her comfort zone and at times, I did wish she would butt out, but I think the message of the story is that we all simply just have to be pushed out of our comfort zone sometimes to get what we really need in life. 
 I love how the mystery of the necklace was interwoven into the story as well. I sort of had an idea what happened to it, but the writing of it all was still brilliant. 
 The romantic lead, Ed, here was a rather dashing man who has his own less-than-pretty past. Of course, misunderstandings occur between Lara and him but don't worry, this book is ultimately a feel-good story! I wish his character was more developed though but at the end of the day, the story isn't about Lara's love life, though it has a huge role, but more on the friendship between Lara and Sadie and how Sadie pushes Lara to make changes to her love life, her job, her family ties and her personal life. 
 I didn't think this was possible but I actually cried while reading Twenties Girl. I'll try not to spoil anything but when Sadie, who believing that she was a nobody who achieved nothing in life and how her family pretty much neglected her as well, finds out that she did in fact achieve something and became quite famous, it was just so touching, I couldn't help but started crying. It was pretty much like that scene from Doctor Who where The Doctor and Amy Pond brought back Vincent Van Gogh into the modern times and well.. don't want to spoil anything. 
 Twenties Girl is a great example of Sophie Kinsella's charming writing and if you've not read any of her books, I recommend starting with this.