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L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGING-IN- P UBLICATION D ATA

Names: Kinsella, Sophie, author.

Title: My not so perfect life : a novel / Sophie Kinsella.

Description: New York : Dial Press, [2017]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016025629 | ISBN 9780812998269 (hardback) |

ISBN 9780812998276 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Man-woman relationships—Fiction. | BISAC:

FICTION / Humorous. | FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. |

FICTION / Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Love stories.

Classification: LCC PR6073.I246 M9 2017 | DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016025629

Ebook ISBN 9780812998276

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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Part One

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Part Two

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-one

Chapter Twenty-two

Chapter Twenty-three

Dedication

Acknowledgments

By Sophie Kinsella

About the Author



First: It could be worse. As commutes go, it could be a lot worse, and I must keep remembering this. Second: It’s worth it. I want to live in London; I want to do this; and commuting is part of the deal. It’s part of the London experience, like Tate Modern.