At first glance Abby Randolph seems like the typical heroine of a chick lit novel. She’s a thirty year old, Harvard drop out, who was just dumped by her boyfriend. She is struggling in her career and basically seems to be at loose ends as to what to do with her life.
Luckily for Abby, one of her colleagues points out to her that she should take a porcelain chamber pot she owns to an upcoming taping of the Antiques Roadshow. Hilarity will ensue when the officials at the Roadshow determine that Abby has quite a treasure and they prepare her to showcase the chamber pot on the show.
Finding out that the chamber pot left to her by her mother once belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning will turn Abby’s life overnight. Not only is she the owner of a valuable antique but soon business is brisk and a sexy reporter wants to know all about the work of an antiques dealer and most particularly, her. Abby’s life suddenly seems quite all right but before she can enjoy her newfound luck a friend from her past will come to wreck havoc and sue her for the chamber pot.
The lawsuit will also serve to bring Abby face-to-face with her first love who so insulted her by publishing a tell all book which prevents Abby from even going into bookstores for fear of seeing copies of his book.
This breezy novel is quite entertaining. You can’t help but root for Abby, even when she makes foolish decisions, and the emphasis on academia, poetry and books was also enjoyable for this bookworm.
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Added 11/06