Thank you to Welbeck Publishing UK for granting my wish in getting to read Freya North’s latest book.

I loved this book partly because I could identify with the young girl in the 80’s Eadie was. Eadie wanted her freedom but differently than most teenagers longed for. Be careful what you wish for you just might get it. What Eadie didn’t count on was what her freedom would cost her.

Freya North has created a wonderful birth to death telling of, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne. There are high moments in Eadie’s adulthood and low moments in her life. What I loved about her character was her tenacity and her fragility. She never lost sight of who she was.

Wow. Freya North has taken a different route with this book, and it is wonderful, a story that flows with delicious words crafted into thoughtful sentences that take you on a vibrant colourful journey starting with childhood and ending with adulthood. We are able to hold onto Eadie's hand as she navigates this journey that we all take. The journey is unique to Eadie but I felt I could relate to parts as being a teenager in the 80's.
Eadie's life is peppered with wonderful characters that have been crafted with love and care in the mind of the author and all have a right to be in the story.
I didn't want the book to finish, I kept stopping to take in what I had read took a deep breath and then jumped back in so I could be immersed back into it. I even had tears in my eyes when I had finished (that doesn't happen very often).
Than you Freya for another wonderful book

Wow! I've been a fan of Freya's for years now (since I first read one of her books back in the late 1990s that was given away with a woman's magazine at the time - ah, memories!!) and I loved this book.
I found it to be very different to her other work, but, in a good way.
I found the story to be emotionally challenging at times because of a couple of the subjects tackled but, I always think, it's good to be challenged on occasion.
I'd highly recommend this book!

I really enjoyed this, to be let in to the characters life and see the youth and adult hood through her eyes and the changes she has gone through was very enjoyable and sometimes relatable.

I've read a couple of Freya North books and really loved them. This one was very different. A simple story really about growing up, family, friendships and finding your place in the world.
It started well and I was really engaged with Eadie and her friends. The part where she goes to uni dragged for me. It was repetitive and not all that interesting. I found myself skim reading to get to the next part. This was about a funeral Eadie and her husband are travelling to and was also dragged out to the extreme. Just lots of driving down the motorway with zero going on. The ending was also dull and to be honest I was glad to get the book done. A shame as I'd love her other books so much. This one won't put me off though.