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Working it Out: Ruby Matthews has a plan. Twelve jobs in twelve months, until she finds the one of her dreams… (English Edition) Formato Kindle
After an unexpected redundancy, Ruby begins to question her priorities. Inspired by a quote from Kahlil Gibran about loving your work, she launches her mission to find the ideal job.
Her year of gainful (and sometimes painful!) employment includes nannying for clients in the South of France; dealing with embarrassing ailments in a Harley Street Clinic; waiting tables in a buzzy Soho cafe; and meeting the celebs of years gone by in a home for retired actors. And even though love is no longer top of her list, relationships just seem to start happening along the way – which sees her handing out some P45s of her own!
But will any of the jobs, or men she meets, see her dreams come true? Or will Ruby just end up back where she started?
- LinguaInglese
- Data di pubblicazione20 novembre 2013
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- ASIN : B004QS945Y
- Lingua : Inglese
- Dimensioni file : 554 KB
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- Memo : Su Kindle Scribe
- Lunghezza stampa : 330 pagine
- Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 337,253 in Kindle Store (Visualizza i Top 100 nella categoria Kindle Store)
- n. 2,094 in Narrativa sulle festività
- n. 11,038 in Commedia romantica (Libri)
- n. 40,395 in Romanzi rosa (in inglese)
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Ruby wird kurz vor Weihnachten entlassen und muss sich einen neuen Job suchen. Sie entscheidet, dass sie 12 verschiedene Jobs in einem Jahr ausprobiert um herauszufinden, was ihr liegt. Und dazwischen kommen auch noch Probleme mit Männern.
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Wer eine leichte Unterhaltung sucht und keine Angst vor eindeutigen Ausdrücken der modernen Mädchen hat, wird gut bedient. Die Geschichte ist ganz gut geschrieben und hat einige Wendungen. Die Menge an Charakteren ist begrenzt und man lernt sie ganz gut kennen.
Andererseits ist die Liebesgeschichte schon irgendwie vorhersehbar und auch einige der anderen Entwicklungen kann man sich mindestens im Groben vorstellen.
Ich habe vor allem eine eine Jobsuche-geschichte erwartet und war daher etwas unzufrieden, wenn das Liebesleben der Protagonistin zu viel Platz einnahm. Die detaillierten Ausdrücke, in denen sie sich mit ihrer Freundin über ihr Liebesleben unterhält, haben mich teilweise gestört.
Ein Buch, was man mal lesen kann, aber nicht zu viel erwarten sollte.

At the beginning of the book we meet Ruby. She has just been made redundant, but does she let this get the better of her? No! She begins on a quest-12 jobs in 12 months and then she will decide which is the best fit for her. I can only imagine the fun this author had researching this novel as some of the jobs are completely not what you would expect for someone who used to work in marketing. The wonderful thing about Ruby is that she doesn't give up. She completely typifies the strong independent thirty something woman that I love to read about in novels. When she doesn't get work for a couple of weeks and finds money hard, she sells her designer handbags on eBay, something we all know can buy us a bit of spending money until the next pay cheque arrives.
The other thing I really liked about the character and her position within the storyline is that with every job she does, either she ends up learning a completely valid life lesson, or else she ends up teaching the people she works with something. I think Nicola May has been very clever here. She could've just gone through describing the scrapes and capers that Ruby got into in each job, but instead she decided to use each job as a teaching point in Ruby's life, or the lives of the characters around her.
The book is mainly set in Putney, but the main character is originally from Reading and is a staunch fan of their football team, so it helped in my reading of the book that it was set close to home. At the end of the story, however, Ruby travels to the Lake District, so be warned, you will be craving the beauty of the hills and,area of Cumbria by the time you finish this novel! All scenes and settings were wonderfully described. Indeed throughout the book, the balance of description and narrative were spot on.
I think there is really something for everybody in the treat of a debut novel. Some really likeable characters, both main and supporting. A strong storyline featuring me very day events as well as the pure escapism of 'I wonder what would happen if I quit my job and tried my hand at a completely different career'. And of course there is the all important love interest, something simmering beneath the surface, teasing the reader with not knowing what will happen until the very last minute! Loves, laughs and life lessons in this fabulously fun novel by Nicola May!


Nicola knows just how weave a good story and adds lots of funny bits.