The book is light-hearted and funny for the majority and exudes warmth from the pages each step of the way, when tragedy hits the family the book really pulls on the heart-strings and adds another element to the overall reading journey. This is a book that will appeal to a lot of readers and be one you can truly just escape into with your wine, coffee or hot chocolate, fluffy warm socks and your phone switched off.

Great book and I really enjoyed reading the story. Definitely new author for me that I will look out for.

Really enjoyable read. Good characters and a Good story. Well worth a read. Think others will. Enjoy

I really liked this one. It had so many funny things and I recognized many of them. On the other hand a lot of sad things happened as well and I have to say the author truely knows how to describe feelings. She pulls the reader into her story.
Add to this mixture some love, the revealing of a few secrets and a bit of heartbreak and a fluent writing style and you end up a most enjoyable book.

183 times a year is reportedly the number of times a teenage girl will argue with her mother. For Lizzie – mother of Cassie and Connor and stepmother to Maisy aka Mania – it seems to be far more frequently than that. Told from the viewpoints of both Lizzie and sixteen-year-old Cassie, this novel explores the fraught world of a blended family. Cassie’s dealing with peer pressure, boyfriend issues and an absent father, while her librarian mother is wondering how her life has come down to this. Funny, moving and bittersweet, this debut novel is a real treat.

Did not mean to request this title so did not download the book. So sorry for the inconvenience.

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