She never has a weekend off, and her social life is nonexistent. Samantha’s grayish existence as a law drone is well drawn – she is truly on the treadmill to nowhere. The most interesting bits of The Undomestic Goddess are the parts involving both of Samantha’s careers. And with a little help from the handsome gardener and his mother, she might have a chance – a chance to make her life something different and possibly even worth living. Still, going back to Carter Spink suddenly seems impossible, so Samantha decides to give housekeeping a try. She can’t cook, iron, sew, and even the more basic cleaning tasks like vacuuming are a little above her level. The only problem is, Samantha knows nothing about domestic work. Before she can even shake her head, Samantha is her new employee. She wanders up to a house to ask for a glass of water and an aspirin, and the woman who lives there mistakes her for her housekeeping interviewee. She comes out of that spin miles from London getting off of a train in a little picturesque village. As failure is an utterly foreign concept to workaholic Samantha, this huge mistake sends her into a tailspin. She’s just on the cusp of that achievement, too, when she makes an enormous error which costs her firm’s client 50 million pounds. Samantha Sweeting is a brilliant top City lawyer, one of the finest legal minds of her generation, and she’s been sweating away at Carter Spink for seven years trying to make partner.
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