Throughout the story, Derek Smeath, Becky’s bank manager, is trying to contact her to discuss her overdraft. Becky loses interest in Tarquin, despite his wealth and admitted he's just not her type. Tarquin returns and Becky feels he saw her looking at the checkbook. While Tarquin goes to the bathroom, Becky looks at his checkbook, and is disappointed. Tarquin asks Becky out, and compliments her scarf. Suze and Becky find a magazine feature about eligible millionaires, including Tarquin and Luke. She initially enjoys shopping with him for luggage, but is upset to learn that it is actually for his girlfriend, Sacha. Luke asks Becky to come shopping with him at Harrods. Becky claims her aunt gave it to her, to avoid arousing Luke’s suspicions. Luke's stepmother, Annabel, compliments Becky's scarf. Luke is having dinner there with his parents. Later that week, Becky's flat mate Suze invites her out to dinner with her and her cousins, including Tarquin. Luke overhears her asking a friend to borrow some money, and pauses the press conference to lend it to her, after she invents a story about buying a present for her hospitalized aunt.
During the conference Becky realizes that she will not have time to return to the office for her credit card, but only needs 20 pounds more to buy the scarf. After the conversation, Luke Brandon, head of Brandon Communications, informs her that one financial group recently bought another, and it is rumored that Flagstaff Life is going the same way. The shop assistant agrees to hold it until the end of the day.Īt the press conference, Becky is greeted by a staff member of Brandon Communications, who questions her about some breaking financial news, which Becky has to feign knowledge of. On her way to a press conference at Brandon Communications, Becky notices a scarf she has long craved on sale for 50% at Denny & George, but realizes she has left her credit card at the office. Visiting her parents in Surrey, they order her to either cut back on her spending or make more money. Despite this, she still receives letters offering her credit and department store cards.
Becky admits to knowing little about personal finance, and is thousands of pounds in debt due to reckless spending on designer homeware, clothes and beauty products, which she rationalizes as 'investments'.
She works as a financial journalist for Successful Savings magazine, which she dislikes. It focuses on Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who is in serious debt due to her shopping addiction.īecky Bloomwood lives in a flat in Fulham, London, owned by her best friend Suze's wealthy, aristocratic parents. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2000) (released in the United States and India as Confessions of a Shopaholic) is a chick-lit novel by Sophie Kinsella, the first in the Shopaholic series.
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