Kirkus ReviewsFforde's latest is a rambling, bighearted novel in which a young Londoner becomes entangled with a wealthy American family. Sophie is a lovely girl, if a bit too easily pushed around. Her family, a group of self-centered academics, thinks she's comparatively dim and treats her as their very own Cinderella. Her friends can't understand why her boyfriends are needy moochers. And Sophie herself would like something more than waiting tables. She has a plan: Save enough money to take a tailoring and business course and open her own shop. But first she must look after Evil Uncle Eric while his housekeeper is away (her family insists--Uncle Eric is loaded, and they are hoping for an inheritance), and then she is off to New York to temporarily nanny for a local family.
