Josephine Cox never fails!
Another fantastic book, great storyline and true to life characters that had you feeling for them, especially Sarah.
A really easy cosy book the perfect summer read

This was a real page turner. Heart breaking at times and heart warming in equal measure. How Sarah and her siblings lives changed when Fred met Mavis, and not for the better. How dreadful that Mavis took over the lives of what was a loving family who held together after the death of their mother.. Mavis was a dreadful mani[pulative woman. This was a gripping story beautifully written.

Eighteen year old Sarah is devastated when her mother dies and tries her best to look after her father, brother and younger sister.
When her father marries another woman they move into her boarding house and their lives go from bad to worse.
This is the story of family trying to stay together and look after each other.
Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review

I'm a Josephine Cox fan so it was great to receive an early copy of Daddy's Girl and it didn't disappoint.

It is certainly well-written and up to the usual standard. It was a sometimes bleak and emotional family drama and the depiction of the "evil stepmother" was particularly well drawn. Although there was a lot of heartache in this book, the dark times in the book are always tempered by some lighter interlude and I was glad that there was a highly satisfying ending.

A brilliant read for fans of Josephine Cox and authors like Lesley Pearse. Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of Daddy's Girl in exchange for an honest review.

Firstly thank you Netgalley for this Arc

Another brilliant book by a brilliant author full of different emotions

I did not expect to love this book as much as I did but it was such a good story with the added smattering of mystery to be unravelled. An average family, 2 daughters with good future prospects due to education and skills and a son who at times is a little wayward. Then their world is turned upside down when the mother dies leaving her husband Fred with the 3 children. When he meets another woman they are all expected to move into her boarding house home and the girls quickly realise she is a manipulative woman with a past, using them as low paid skivvies. Finding out their new step mother's history and her unsavoury past uncovers a bombshell that gives the girls the escape route they needed. A very good, well written read

It was very emotional and very well written I really enjoyed it.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC

What an exciting read.
The Quinn’s are your average family, mother and father Ava & Fred with son Joe and younger daughters Sarah and Janette.
Sarah’s suspicions are aroused when Ava starts making suggestions for when she’s not around, never thinking that there was a chance it would happen any time soon.
The house is in turmoil after the loss of Ava who ran it with precision, unfortunately Sarah is expected leave school and take her mothers place. A heavy load for a young girl, especially with a worse than useless father and a brother who is always losing his job.
The Joe and Sarah start to notice out of character changes in their father, could he have a friend!
Sarah and Janette have been staying with their aunt Irene in Fettling when on their return they are introduced to Mavis Swindel (an appropriate name I thought)
Mavis runs a boarding house, I use that term loosely, it sounds more like a ramshackle. You just had to laugh at places.
Mavis certainly knew how to get her own way, no matter the cost. I loved the descriptions of the lodgers, especially Percy Lovell.
This book just flows, always something happening. I couldn’t put it down. Even when I got to the end it just left me wanting more.
I look forward to the next book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ doesn’t do it justice.