Love Your Life: The joyful and romantic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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I’ve sworn I won’t cry, but tears are brimming in my eyes as I gaze at his bright, intelligent face. My Harold. Best beagle in the world. Best dog in the world. Best person in the world.

A humorous exploration of family life, finding love and the difficulties of coming into one’s own as a young professional woman . . . The entertaining cast of characters . . . will certainly remind readers why nineteen years after her first hit Kinsella remains one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction.” — The Washington Post Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter from Your Lover Ava herself is so immature, overly hyper, and desperate to be “in love”. I thought I was reading about a high school child rather than a grown woman. Her only redeeming quality is her love for dogs. Actually, not one of the characters were likable except Harold the dog and maybe a few of Ava’s friends. I feel like she (Kinsella) had to goo and make her the baddest as possible to make Ava seem like a nice, positive person.

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Here’s all his stuff.” I dump my massive bag on the floor. “Bed, water bowl, blanket, food . . . Oh, his essential oils!” I suddenly remember, taking the bottle from my bag. “I’ve made him a new blend, lavender and cedarwood. You just have to spritz his—” I was one chapter in and all the cheesy dialogue was driving me nuts but the synopsis had interested me and so I (forced myself to)kept reading. I have always loved Sophie Kinsella’s books! Can You Keep A Secret and I’ve Got Your Number are two of my favorite books. However, I had felt it hard to connect with her last couple books and was questioning whether she would remain an auto-read author for me. I am happy to see Love Your Life redeemed her for me and I really enjoyed the book. It features romantic and whimsical Ava who is an aspiring writer that attends a writing retreat in Italy where you have to call everyone by an alias. Ava who is now “Aria” meets “Dutch” at the retreat and the two instantly connect and fall into a whirlwind romance. By the end of the retreat their feelings have evolved and they both believe they are in love and want to try their hand at a real relationship in the real world. Do not apologize to him,” says Nell to me. “And do not waste all week mooning over videos of Harold instead of writing your book.”

I’m a big fan of author’s works and her last two books “ I owe you one” and “ Surprise me” were a little disappointing for me. ( Actually since I’ve read “ I’ve got your name”, I haven’t found any of her books so much adorable. I truly missed her optimistic, clumsy but likable heroines and smart,funny, feel good stories like first books of Shopaholic series and “ Can you keep a secret”, “Twenties girl”) If anyone thinks dogs can’t understand everything we say and do, then they’re wrong, because Harold knows. He’s trying to be brave, but he’s finding this as hard as I am. That's when Ava suggests the brilliant concept of discovering 'Ava-land' and 'Matt-land' as a way for them to get to know more about each other. So the plan of getting to know each other's friends, Eva getting to know Matt's family, Matt getting to know more about Eva's dog, Harold, begins. But will it go wonderfully right or horribly wrong? Harold can’t wait to stay with me,’ says Nell firmly, ushering us both into the living room. ‘Can you, Harold?’ From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher, an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer’s retreat in Italy—only to find that real love comes with its own filtersThere's another friend whose whole thing is asking people for favors all the time, which is really weird. I think it's supposed to be humorous, but it's literally the character's entire personality that she's just always asking people to do things for her. There's another friend who is described as ugly when we first meet him because he's "hulk-like" and has acne. Then, every time after that when he is mentioned, we get a reminder that he has super bad acne and is super ugly - in case you didn't remember from all the other times it was said. You WILL know that he's ugly and has acne. I love anything and everything by Sophie Kinsella, I am a big fan of her Shopaholic series and in my opinion, her books just get better and better, and her newest book, Love Your Life, does not disappoint. I eye-roll very deliberately toward the phone. Although I know he can’t see me, I have this very slight theory that you can somehow convey emotions through your phone.