This was a brilliant read. As soon as I started reading this book I just knew I was going to love it. Highly recommended

Aww I loved this one! Dee, Rose and Fleur are the daughters of Iris who has recently died. The three estranged sisters are appalled to find out that in order to get their inheritance it comes at a price! Completing their mother’s bucket list. This was a lovely warming read full of emotion.
Thank you to netgalley for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

I loved this book a lot. It was beautifully written and a wonderful story. The characters were great and the book kept my interest and was read really quickly. I would recommend to my book friends.

To begin, I’d like to thank Harper Collins for the ARC of this book, and to NetGalley for facilitating. And thank you to Cathy Hopkins for a very different read.

As always there will be no spoilers in this review.

This was actually requested a long time ago, but I didn’t receive any emails to say I’d been accepted so was never downloaded, I’ve since gotten a copy from Amazon so that I could review it here.

This is a heartwarming book about the love and differences of sisters. The rebuilding of bridges and the airing of grudges. It was lovely in its simplicity and would probably make a really heartwarming film.

The sisters were all very well written and I did find that I liked them all in their own way. Although it was difficult for me initially to imagine becoming like that with my sisters because we are all so close - but I guess that added to the emotion for me - I was rooting for them to find their way back to each other. I couldn’t imagine a moment of estrangement with my sisters so I was really invested in their journey.

This isn’t my normal style of book but was nice for some light relief! Not one I’d keep on the bookshelf or rave at my sisters to go and read, but it was pleasant.
Definitely a holiday book or one to read on a sunny day in the garden - nothing to heavy or engrossing.

I liked this book a lot, it was funny in parts but also very touching. I liked the way the author made the characters of the sisters very different, but also showed their similarities. I would definitely recommend this book.

This book is lovely.
I think I knew why the bucket list had been created but it still made me smile.
A bittersweet story of real family life.
Three and a half stars

nice story about 3 sisters. nice how they came together in the end

A great story of three sisters, who on the death of their mother are informed that in order to receive their inheritance they must follow her wishes and spend some time doing some ‘bucket list’ activities that she has planned for them.
Light hearted and easy to read.

Thank you NetGalley for a heart-warming read.
Sisters Rose, Fleur and Daisy are brought together when their mum dies. Having fallen out over how to care for their mum in her last months, the atmosphere between the sisters is tense. They are shocked to discover they will only gain their inheritance when they have spent a year completing their mother’s own version of a bucket list.
Yes, it’s quite predictable but there’s something comforting about the story. It certainly encourages you to consider relationships in all their forms and to think about what is important in life. There’s some funny moments and, when I’d finished, it did make me want to reach out to those who aren’t so close any more for one reason or another.

I didn't enjoy this book as much as the latest book by the same author,'Dancing Over the Hill'.which was thought -provoking but also laugh out loud funny.This book was a lot more sombre and serious in tone, with some amusing moments .I found some of the challenges set to the three sisters a bit strange and at times it felt more like a chapter from a self help book than a novel.

This book is definitely a movie in the making.
Three sisters named after flowers; Rose, neat and petite, with an anal personality, Fleur, successful, wealthy, beautiful and selfish, Daisy, a struggling artist, sensitive and independent, have to comply with their late mother’s wishes before receiving their inheritance. Their late mother created a condition in her will, probably out of desperation, to get her three daughters to re-establish a good relationship with each other.
The conditions of her letter consist of a bucket list they have to achieve together within one year. If they succeed they receive their inheritance. While listening to the lawyer who reads the letter outlining the skilfully crafted conditions each daughter resists the bucket list vehemently. They leave his office without saying goodbye to each other.
However, a planner and co-ordinator of the bucket list has already been paid to carry out the scheme and the daughters have no choice but to reluctantly comply.
Each ‘bucket list’ is carefully planned and as the year draws to a close it is filled with humorous, interesting activities and occurrences. The sadness and joy of the closing chapter bring richness to a heart-warming closure for all.
BonnieK
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Rose, Dee and Fleur. Close as younger siblings, then drifting apart and finally their mum's stroke and not being able to agree causing an irreparable rift between them. We first meet them at the solicitor's office for the reading of Iris' will and it is clear straight away how different they are from Dee's observations.

Dee is the main narrator however we also get to read Rose and Fleur's points of view. Not everything Dee perceives is correct ...

How the sisters receive their tasks from the kicking the bucket list is poignant but also humourous! For the next year, one weekend every other month, the sisters must stay together undertaking the quests their mum has set. A key player in delivering the tasks is Daniel. Don't you just love it when your opinions change about a character! There's a scene later on in the story that although had me anxious also had me punching the air :)

Despite the sadness, there are plenty of laugh out loud moments during the 'How to be happy' programme. One scene that continues to make me laugh is in Fleur's flat in Knightsbridge. So funny. I'm not going to share with you any of the tasks only to say that they're brilliantly conceived and all for a reason.

The story isn't just about the weekends the sisters spend together. I couldn't warm to Fleur but I did find it so easy to get caught up in Dee's and Rose's lives as the year unfolds. So many emotions!

The Kicking the Bucket List is a story that had me laughing one moment and tearful the next. The list is very uplifting and a pure tonic. I loved the ending ... although it had me in tears, there is hope with new beginnings. I'm looking forward to seeing what Cathy Hopkins writes next.

Enjoyed the story would recommend it is a rollercoaster of emotions

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A very easy read but very thought provoking . It is an unputdownable book

I’ve never cried that much with a book. It's not a sad book, I laughed a lot and I had a great time during my reading. I will definitely take some advises for my life. It basically tells the story about a mother who had just died and gave to her daughters a bucket list to follow and only after that they would have their inheritance. Rose, Dee and Fleur grew up apart and they turned out to be independents and with no strings attached with family. The bucket list their mother created will try to approximate the girls and make them have a great time together. Well, that is their mother idea but the things will get a bit off the way. Anyway, I really loved this book, I can't wait to read more things from this author. Oh, the finals pages are a bucket list itself, it brings a truly way to live fully. Thank NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange of my honest review.

What an emotional rollercoaster of a story. When I first picked up Cathy Hopkin’s book The Kicking the Bucket List I was reminded of another story that I had read earlier in the year. However, what was brilliant is that even with similar concepts two different writers can both make such interesting and diverse stories.

Hopkins tells the story of three estranged sisters who are brought back together by their recently deceased mother. The three girls are strikingly different but it is the love of their mother that makes them partake in the kicking the bucket list of challenges.

Each new challenge brings a new dilemma, more and more of the characters foibles are revealed and we steadily fall for this family who have fallen apart.

The Kicking the Bucket List by Cathy Hopkins is a gorgeous, warm, and uplifting read. This needs to be your latest commute read….be warned, you may not be able to put it down.

The Kicking the Bucket List by Cathy Hopkins is available now.

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This was an interesting read. I loved the characters in the book. I loved the fact that their mother had made a list of things for them to do before they could inherit... in the aim of bringing them back together and talking to each other. Everything about this book is a winner. My only issue is that it felt a little stilted at times. The conversations between characters felt like it wasn't natural. Other than that, it's a lovely book that deals with death and grief and love and relationships and sisters.

I really liked this book. It's not what I expected at all. I laughed and cried. It was great to see the invididual stories of the sisters' lives outside of the Bucket List weekends. I even got to love Iris and her friends, just form the small glimpse I got of them.

Daniel is a diffent story though!!

This book is author Cathy Hopkins' first book for adult, after having written successfully in the teen genre before. I have to admit I wasn't too taken with the cover for this one, it didn't exactly draw me into the book, but I really liked the idea of it, so was determined to ignore my cover judgments and read on regardless! Luckily, the story inside didn't disappoint, and I found it to be a very good read, and while it may perhaps be a bit raw if you have recently lost your own mother, it was an ultimately uplifting family-centric read.

The book is the story of 3 sisters - Dee, Rose and Fleur. They don't really speak any more, and have lost touch, all settling into their own lives. However, their mother Iris has left a stipulation in her will that the sisters have to spend a set amount of time together in order to gain their inheritance, which some of the women need more than others. They're all initially very doubtful that they can make it work, but know that for their mother's sake, they have to make a go of it and at least try. But is it just too big an ask for sisters who seem destined to never be close?

The family dynamic throughout this book was very interesting to read. I am quite close to my brother so I couldn't contemplate being like Rose, Dee and Fleur are with each other throughout this book. The fact they don't have a clue about the big things going on in each others lives is quite sad, and I would never want to be like that personally. However, I was pleased that they were willing to give their family another chance, even if it was only for the reasons of inheritance, and was hopeful of a nice family reunion. Each of the women were very different. There's free spirit Dee, an artist who loves her home in Cornwall but is scared of losing it; Rose, the serious sister who works all hours God sends and finally Fleur, the property magnate who lives a free and single life, and loves it.

The book was quite an emotional read, with each of them struggling to come to terms with the death of their beloved mother, and it made me very grateful that I am yet to have to deal with a loss like that. It didn't seem to matter how successful or well off they are in their private lives, the loss hit them so hard, and it was heart-breaking in times to read their grief and sorrow. Another poignant part of the book involves one of the sisters hiding a painful secret from the other two, I wished she would confide in them, it was very hard to read as she felt she wasn't in a place to ask for help from the people she should always be able to ask for it from.

For me, there were parts of the narrative that went on a little bit too much, and I felt this bogged the book down in the middle part for a while. I found it heavy-going, and some of it could have been lifted without losing the general gist of what was happening. I did find myself putting it down a few times and going back to it, but finally it did pick up the pace again, and kept going towards a very eye-opening finale. The narrative switches up between the three sisters, although the main narrator is Dee, and I enjoyed the way it switched up and kept it fresh. For me, this was an enjoyable book. It was an emotional read, but one I definitely enjoyed reading. There were funny bits that made me laugh out loud, some that made me cry, and poignant storylines that were believable yet very sad. A book that highlights the importance of family, of love and of treasuring what we have whilst we have it. A wonderful book.