{"id":22,"date":"2007-08-18T20:29:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T00:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/review-of-the-little-lady-agency-by-hester-browne\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T20:29:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T00:29:17","slug":"review-of-the-little-lady-agency-by-hester-browne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Little Lady Agency, by Hester Browne"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Little Lady Agency<\/div>\n
by Hester Browne<\/div>\n

Reviewed August 18, 2007.
\nViking, New York, 2006. 378 pages.<\/p><\/div>\n

About a week after I finished The Cinderella Pact,<\/em><\/a> by Sarah Strohmeyer, I found myself yearning for another dose of feel-good, light-hearted chick lit. The Little Lady Agency<\/em> was the perfect choice.<\/p>\n

Like The Cinderella Pact, The Little Lady Agency<\/em> involves a woman with a secret identity. In this case, Melissa Romney-Jones runs The Little Lady Agency to help those men who don\u2019t have their own \u201clittle lady\u201d to do things like pick out gifts, plan a party, or play a jealous ex-girlfriend to make breaking up simpler.<\/p>\n

Melissa didn\u2019t originally plan on this career choice, but after she completely organizes the estate agency where she works, the agency is bought by an American firm, and they have to \u201clet her go.\u201d She refuses to ask for money from her rich MP father, since he\u2019s still hounding her for the money he loaned to her to invest in a deadbeat boyfriend\u2019s business\u2014before he ran off.<\/p>\n

In the interests of discretion, Melissa buys a blonde wig and runs her agency as Honey Blennerheskitt. Although Melissa herself is extremely capable, she finds that Honey is outspoken and charming and freely stands up for herself. Honey knows she is attractive and dresses to please. Honey wouldn\u2019t let her family take advantage of her skills by planning her sister\u2019s wedding for no compensation, as Melissa does.<\/p>\n

Melissa\u2019s favorite client ends up being Jonathan Riley, the new American manager of Melissa\u2019s former office. He was recently divorced and wants Honey to pose as his girlfriend so that people will stop trying to set him up and stop asking him how he\u2019s holding up. He seems to like Honey, but he doesn\u2019t even know the real Melissa. And is it possible to let a relationship that begins as business change into something else?<\/p>\n

This book is lots of fun, heart-warming, and made me smile. The characters have depth and you can\u2019t help but like them (or like to hate them, such as Melissa\u2019s father). Definitely a cheering book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne Reviewed August 18, 2007. Viking, New York, 2006. 378 pages. About a week after I finished The Cinderella Pact, by Sarah Strohmeyer, I found myself yearning for another dose of feel-good, light-hearted chick lit. The Little Lady Agency was the perfect choice. Like The Cinderella Pact, The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chick-lit","category-fiction-review","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}