Confessions of a Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella pens this novel about Rebecca Bloomwood - a financial journalist in Successful Savings magazine, situated in downtown London. Becca is a good student, who turns out to be a compulsive shopper. She is unable to keep her addiction to shopping in control. Eventually she receives letters from various institutions reminding about her overdrafts, credits and lack of finances, driving her to trying to save money. She tries to make food at home, but hates her soggy sandwiches and wishes for her fresh coffee and muffins, instead. She tries to make money by making a mail-in frames for a family company and her roommate Suzie seems to be better at it.
Her job isn't any better. She is bored out of her mind writing the articles and the conferences for the financial journalists are a drag, save the free stuff that they give out. Often, she finds herself speechless at questions about the industry, that she should rightfully know, but somehow either gets saved or ends up getting embarrassed beyond belief.
She has just broken up with her boyfriend, since he was very conservative. She can't stand her parents' neighbours, who seem to think that she is still interested in their son, Tom, since high school. She finds her roomie's cousin, Tarquin, a multimillionaire, a drag bore, and ends up peeking wrongfully into his chequebook on their date. Luke Brandon, who is also a multimillionaire businessman and for whom she almost fell for, thinks her stupid and hides the fact that he had a girlfriend, during dinner. She is obviously enraged.
Life for her seems to be a turmoil until she finds a story about Flagstaff, a client of Brandon's. Flagstaff is the insurance company that her parents' neighbours had just switched out of, losing a 20,000 pounds payout. She is determined to help them since she had once casually mentioned to them to switch out the company. She calls her contact with one of the tabloids and once the article is printed in The Daily News, it becomes a sensation. She not only starts making money, but also receives invitations to telly (TV) shows. She prepares herself well for the show, but discovers that instead of a simple naive show, she was going to be arguing and debating on screen with Luke. Although extremely nervous, she thinks of her nice neighbours and manages to get Luke to confess of the company's wrongdoings.
The novel ends with her dealing her financial troubles and shopping addiction maturely and getting together with Luke Brandon.
Although the novel was extremely irritating in seeing how Becca was so idiotic and thoughtless about her finances, it isn't uncommon to find many youngsters so today. I, however, found it very frivolous and unplanned and it's almost impossible to figure out how come a person so incompetent is still hired by the company without realizing what kind of job they are doing. Even though with the unrealistic plot and character, it was good for light reading and it was good to know that not everyone stays on top of things and almost every event can bring daydreaming.