I adored this book. It ended up being so much more than I expected and I couldn't have loved it more. The characters, the relationships, the suspense/crime twist thrown in. It was my first book by Karly Lane and I can't wait to read more!

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An engrossing tale that captivated me from the beginning till the end . The storyline is bit catchy and the narration style is vivid. The way the protagonist of the story is messed up in working in his own company with some other name is quite intriguing.

The author has well predicted the life of a working class and the enviornment in the work place. The sole idea of depicting working class in a peculiar way is done artistically. Language is lucid and easily relatable.

I liked reading this book and would recommend this book to all. I am thankful to @netgalley and the publisher for providing me this book in return of an honest review.
Happy Reading!

This was a delightful read but I was a little disappointed by the ending. The author didn't finish up one particular part of the story. That won't stop me from reading more of her books in the future.

heartfelt, hilarious, reads like a great coming-of-age book - I loved how funny this was. The writing id super easy-breezy and would love to read more from the author. Super fun and summery!

Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for this ARC for an exchange for an honest review.

Wonderful book, interesting.

This is different from the books I usually read of Karlys. In having said that I really enjoyed the change. I enjoyed the humour and the suprises.

What happens when the matriarch of a rich business empire reaches the end of her tether and cuts off all her children and grandchildren? Drama, that's what! Lane's foray into a contemporary fiction (with a splash of romance and suspense) is largely a success. Trying to make a spoilt rich brat main character likeable is hard, but she manages to do it with Quinn. I thoroughly enjoyed her fall from grace and the wake-up call she gets when forced to suddenly join the working class and earn her own money at a job in her own family's biscuit factory.
It was a very easy read, nothing to bog you down and I enjoyed the Gold Coast setting. I loved the romance subplot/s and thought the characters were great throughout.
I only guessed the twist at the last minute, a great way to wrap up the plot though things really escalated very quickly from "worried about my dad" to "life in dire danger".
Recommend if you're looking for a fun Aussie fiction.

Socialite Quinn has never really worried about anything except what to wear to the next party. The Christmas she reluctantly brings her new boyfriend to meet the family is disastrous in more ways than one. Bryson reveals himself not only to be gold digger, but tears off with Quinn's mean cousin. If that was not humiliating enough, Gran, the matriarch of the family revokes everyone's access to the company money until they can prove they are invested in the company. With no money, no friends, no family, and no other choices, Quinn moves into a house share and begins working incognito in the family company.

Even though this book has a predictable plot line, it was much better than I expected. The character development throughout the whole story was realistic and well-crafted. I was looking for a light chick-lit read when I selected this book, and it is one I will recommend to friends who enjoy Sophie Kinsella and Meg Cabot. I can't wait to read more by this author!

I loved this book. It reminded me of the movie Maid to Order. Very fun and entertaining read. I would recommend this to my friends.

Unfortunately as much as I tried I just couldn't get into this book. I think the storyline was great but for some reason it just fell short with me. I think I would have enjoyed it more if Quinn was a likeable character as the humour was there and it could have been fantastic. Thank you netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Socialite Quinn Appleton knows how to live life—at full speed and with no limits. She has the perfect life, an amazing boyfriend, friends by the bucketload and an eye for fashion. Life is good.

The Appletons are a household name, their eponymous biscuit empire having been in the family for over one hundred and fifty years, making them one of the country’s richest families. They are no strangers to controversy either, constantly gracing the covers of gossip magazines, caught in compromising positions at outrageous parties.

But CEO and matriarch Lady Elizabeth Appleton has had enough. Tired of her children and grandchildren not pulling their weight and dragging the once respectable Appleton name through the mud, she decides to cut them all off financially.

With her life in ruins, Quinn is just one Jimmy Choo heel away from living in a cardboard box when Gran gives her an ultimatum: take a job at the company for six months and her trust fund will be reinstated. The catch? She must do it under a false identity and work her way up—no one can know she’s an Appleton.

Surely it can’t be that hard to hold down a lousy job? After all, millions of other people seem to do it. But Quinn is about to learn just how different the world is when you find yourself suddenly working class.

Appleton is the owner of the largest biscuits manufacturer and the matriarch Lady Elizabeth Appleton is fed up with the way her childrens and grandchildrens who are out to tarnish the family reputation instead of helping and building the business. She is determined to change things and have make a big announcement to cut financial support until everyone proves that they are worthy of the money.

Quinn is famous for her lavish lifestyle and partying find it difficult to keep up with her living. So, she went back to her grandma and asked for an opportunity, she was given an ultimatum i.e to work in the family business for 6 months for her to gain back her trust fund.


It is a story about poor rich girl who has her world torn apart and how she rediscover herself. Love seeing how Quinn’s character changed from a spoilt brat demeanour to her true self as a strong, independent and loyal to those she loves. Overall It is an enjoyable quick summer read to me.

* scheduled post will be published on 6/9/22*

I'll try to make this quick and painless.
I didn't like Quinn Appleton. At all!!
I found the idea of the book fun, but the character was not likable, for me at least. I get it that probably the reader was meant to dislike Quinn at the beginning and then warm up to her as she starts to change. But that didn't work me.

I should like this book. I love the concept. It is something of a draw to see a person change and the way the arc works itself out. In this case, however, I was in the minority. I did not grow to like Quinn or the changes that happened in her life. Most other people who have read it have liked it, and that is something to be taken into account since that might also mean that many others might enjoy it more than I did.
Quinn is rich and from a prestigious family. From the very first page, as she ushers her smarmy boyfriend into the grand family home for Christmas celebrations, I felt she had a very selective view of the world. I hoped to be proved wrong, but she did not especially rise above all the rest of her family as they are all tested by the grandmother.
The setup is very enticing since so much can occur within the framework of a family being distanced from the money that they freely spend on a regular basis. The overall family affair was well done. I would have given it yet another star if I had warmed up to the one person we follow throughout the entire misadventure.
Quinn is sent to work under a disguised name at the family company (yet another trope I enjoy) and uses that time to learn about the 'average person' who might be a dedicated employee of the Biscuit company. The work atmosphere and the eventual bonding between the people introduced to us, and the fallout at the reveal were well done.
There is an extra twist thrown in, which was extremely unexpected and added a bit of drama to the storyline.
The author's writing was well done, and she managed to keep me hooked till the end, even with all my reservations. I will definitely pick another book by her if I get the chance.
As mentioned earlier, I think this would work for most readers of this genre.
I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers, but the review is based on my own reading experience.

Thank you to NetGallery and the published for a copy of the ARC.

I thought this was enjoyable as a summer reading book. I'm always intrigued when reading about a character that's totally different from myself. In this case a poor little rich girl, Quinn Appleton, who's trust fund gets taken away from her so she has to work like the rest of us. She was annoying and spoiled and the beginning of the book was definitely a little slow, but an okay read indeed.

Has anyone seen the Disney Channel move, Cow Belles, with Aly & AJ? This is what the book kind of reminded me of.

Such a cute, sweet book. Accidentally working class is about Quinn Appleton, a young socialite who ends up losing everything at a family Christmas dinner. Gran, who runs the family with a bit of an iron fist, ends up canceling their inheritances and company cards due to embarrassing the family and damaging the family name with their shenanigans. Gran decides to come up with a compromise for Quinn. If she can work for the family company for six months without no-one knowing who she is, her inheritance is reinstate. The book also has intrigue, danger, and hyjinxes a plenty.
I have received this ARC from Netgalley for a fair and honest review.

Thank you for the preview of this book! Accidentally Working Class was such a nice book! Well sometimes the story lines went a couple different directions, I loved at the center focus of this book was not about a woman and her love story, but more about a family trying to get through some tough times. This was beautifully written, and easy to read. I really liked it!

I really enjoyed this latest novel by Karly Lane. Although a big change from her usual rural romance, I could not put this down.

Starting with a family Christmas, life as the main character, Quinn, knows it is turned upside down. From virtually unlimited funds, jobless, parties, and no responsibilities to being cut off, house less, moneyless, and friendless.
Quinn is forced to a form of reality, into a version of how the average person lives, and understanding who her real allies may be.
I liked this read as something a bit different, something light, and very well written.

Early on we see Character development, from spoilt rich girl, to beginning to show understanding of what sort of person she, and her family were. As she begins working life, she begins to see the opportunity of real friendships, and understanding of how hard others may have it.
I enjoyed the characters, development, and story line.

Another excellent, well written novel by Karly Lane

Accidentally Working Class was a delightful, funny rom com with a sprinkle of suspense.

Quinn Appleton finds herself into her kind of hell when her grandmother cuts her and her family funds, she loses her boyfriend, friend and apartment in the blink of an eye.
She accepts to work for the family's company in order to reclaim her trust fund, but Quinn will soon figure out that it won't be so simple.

I liked Quinn, maybe not at the beginning when she was entitled but I completely re-evaluated seeing her work hard and fight for her colleagues.

It was the first time I've read a Karly Lane book and I've really enjoyed this story. The writing, the storyline and the charaters were captivating and enterteining.
I adored the movie feels I got reading this novel. Highly recommended.

Accidentally Working Class by Karly Lane is a rather convoluted story of a matriarch stripping her family of their trust funds because she’s tired of their shenanigans. Honestly, I wonder at her patience. Had these spoiled and unlikable people been part of my family, I wouldn’t have waited as long as the matriarch did.

The family member we follow is Quinn. She spends frivolously, has limited (possibly no) skills, and tries desperately to stay with a fairly repulsive boyfriend even after her grandmother shows Quinn that he’s a cheater. I can’t tell if the author intended for Quinn to disregard the cheating or if she missed the change during revisions. It’s written inconsistently, which is annoying, to say the least.

Quinn’s father is a gambling addict who has lost everything. It turns out that Quinn’s car (a birthday present from Dad) was actually a leased company car. When Grandma cuts them all off, she takes back the car. Now, maybe I’m alone in this, but I have actual stuff in my car that I would want Grandma to let me get before she towed my car. It’s not like the car was repossessed, right? So, that’s weird but maybe it’s just me.

Anyway, Quinn is basically homeless. So, what does she do? She goes to a party and is publicly humiliated because she can’t run a tab, her cards are declined, and of course she has no cash. It’s hard to see how someone this shallow and foolish can – in 6 months (as Grandma requires) – completely turn her life around, become a caring human being capable of managing a budget and working a regular job like the rest of us poor working class losers.

Grandma puts a disguised Quinn to work in the family cookie manufacturing plant. But somehow, she manages to make it work for her. She develops a community with other employees and works hard at her job. This latter half of the book isn’t bad except that it’s really hard to believe a spoiled rich girl can learn to function (including riding public transportation), budget, cook that quickly.

It's difficult to be poor. To minimize the work involved in scraping together enough to survive is disrespectful to all of the people working multiple jobs just to make rent. Quinn's no hero because she magically figures it out.

Quinn’s dad goes missing. Her mom moves in with a boyfriend. Her cousin marries the ex-boyfriend. All of this leads to a mishmashed ending to tie up all the various stories. It moves very quickly and is more than a little hard to believe. And the romance – let’s not forget this is a romance novel – is not even secondary; it’s tertiary to the rest of the story.

Overall, I give this a big meh. It was okay but I won’t be reading it again.

I received a digital ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

this was my first book by this author, but it won't be my last. story has romance and mystery. a quick fun read..