Georgia Goes Broke

I loved this novella as I found it very relatable to my own experiences in life.

Georgia is strict with her money, coming from a family that wasn’t overly good with it and is saving up for her wedding. Her fiancé Basil is in another city working as part of a post-grad internship, not earning too much and asks to be placed on Georgia’s credit card as another user. She goes to pay for lunch one day when her card is declined to find that Basil has racked up charges on her card. Basil says he’ll pay it back and doesn’t want to be one of those couples that talk about money, so tells Georgia to increase the limit to avoid any doubt. In doing that, it creates more worry and consequences.

This was definitely a creative way to tackle the subject of finances. It was done in a humorous way, but also explores the relationships we have with money. Depending how you’ve grown up, you can easily pick up bad habits or be wiser with your money.

I definitely empathised with Georgia’s situation. Having someone else spend your money or that of your credit card, when you’re supposed to be saving would be stressful. She was made to feel bad whilst Basil was living it up without a care in the world. Even though her friends had expressed to Georgia that Basil was no good, I think she wanted to see the best in him, even though they seemed to be not on the same page for most of their time together.

This book also highlights the time we go against intuition/instinct when there are clear red flags fluttering in our face that we choose to ignore for people we love. If we don’t follow those signs, it can get us into tricky situations.

I adored this read and look forward to reading the other books in this series