The Undomestic Goddess with Daisy Buchanan
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re talking to the author of the newly-minted The Sisterhood, Daisy Buchanan, about Sophie Kinsella’s The Undomestic Goddess! Workaholic Samantha Sweeting is a brilliant contract lawyer working for the highly pressurised firm Carter Spink. When she accidentally loses millions of pounds in a stupid admin error, she escapes by boarding a train from London and arriving at a house in the Cotswolds, and is mistaken for the new housekeeper by the super bougie and nouveau riche Trish Geiger and her husband. She decides to lay low and take the job, despite the fact that she doesn’t even know how to work a washing machine. This hilariously relevant book examines work addiction, competitive work atmospheres, being bullied by your boss, and being in the eye of a storm of a public scandal.
Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head taking in the views instead of taking on the road maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you need to go |
| 0:16.1 | without worrying about driving. Book your train journey via avantiawestcoast.co. Ovanti West Coast. |
| 0:25.0 | Feel good travel. Hello and welcome to sentimental garbage a podcast where we talk about the chicklard that made us who we are. |
| 0:42.0 | My name is Karen Nuhu and I'm a novelist, a journalist and someone |
| 0:45.1 | who once framed a coworker to cover up for my own insider trading. Joining me is author, journalist, |
| 0:50.7 | podcaster and sexy gardener, Daisy |
| 0:52.8 | Daisy you can't talk about Sophia Kinsella's 2005 novel, |
| 0:56.5 | The Und Domestic Goddess. |
| 0:58.2 | Hi, Daisy. |
| 0:59.1 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:00.3 | How are you? |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, um, very good, Caroline. I'm really, really excited about this. I think I read it when I came out. |
| 1:07.0 | When I came out. Oh, all right. |
| 1:08.0 | God! |
| 1:09.0 | We've got it. |
| 1:10.0 | It was a scoop. |
| 1:11.0 | Famous lesbian, Deny Cannon. |
| 1:13.2 | This is the, what is, I heard some describe sort of the Richard Gere cycle of doom. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm not gay, but it's okay. I think producer Dale, my husband if he's listening would be quite |
| 1:23.4 | quite taken aback. I read this when it came out when I was a student and I would have |
| 1:29.5 | spent limited student loan like Sophie Sophie can sell his most famous heroin, Becky Bloomwood, |
| 1:37.1 | I spent quite a lot of my student loan in clothes shops. So my book budget was limited and also I always felt massively |
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