Synopsis
When Doug Parker married Hailey - beautiful, smart and ten years older - he left his carefree Manhattan life behind to live with her and her teenage son, Russ, in the suburbs. Three years later, Hailey has been dead for a year, and Doug, a widower at 29, just wants to drown himself in self-pity and Jack Daniels. But his family has other ideas...Russ is furious with Doug for not adopting him after Hailey died, and has fallen in with a bad crowd. Claire, Doug's irrepressible and pregnant twin sister, has just left her husband and moved in, uninvited, determined to turn his life around. Then there's Debbie, their younger sister, engaged to Doug's ex-best friend and maniacally determined to pull of the perfect wedding at any cost. Soon, Doug finds himself trying to forge a relationship with Russ, reconnecting with his own eccentric nuclear family, and reluctantly dipping his toes into the shark-infested waters of the second-time-around dating scene. It isn't long before his new life is spinning hopelessly out of control...

An excellent read! Full of humour and wit but with serious subject matter. I really enjoyed this book about a young man who one year ago suddenly found himself a widower. He is not coping well and his stepson and dysfunctional family just add to the mix. Very well written, a book that you just want to keep reading until you find out the ending. A little bit of a twist there that I wasn't expecting. I'm off to look for more books by Jonathan Tropper.

I will be passing this on to Calalilly and I hope she enjoys it too.

Thank you for passing this onto me Purplerosebud i look forward to reading it.