An extremely amusing read. Evie has a secret. One she doesn't even know about yet....

released for Never Judge a book by its cover week 26 - repeat - word cat (authors name)

still stuck on the shelf - travelling back to England to be re-released

Reserved for greenbadger's Alphabet VBB

On it's way to oliviapoolside,

Thanks for choosing and getting this book back on it's journey. Enjoy :)

Received today, thank you!

A bit treacly; you know emotionally manipulative, planned tear-jerker, overly sweet, overly long. Too many descriptions of everything; people, relationships, décor.
The premise is that a happily married couple find out that the husband has a daughter from a one night stand with a student while engaged to his wife. Oops. The daughter, who is 17, writes to her father and asks to meet him. The wife, Evie, is angry and heartbroken and wants nothing to do with girl or her mother. But eventually she comes around. This is a book about growing up, although Evie is in her mid-40's by the time she embarks on the process.
The only parts of the book that I truly enjoyed were the scenes with Ludo. I was sick of Ant; the nice, decent, honest husband who went out and had sex with a student while engaged, and then walked away from her and went back to his engagement and got married, never telling. I was like what is so honest and decent about that? As I said, treacly sh*t. Evie has a personality, which when she isn't repressing it in order to seem educated and upper class, is suprisingly enjoyable. The scenes that included Ludo were very funny and sparky reading. But the rest of it; you had all the requisite characters including her gay friend Malcolm, the requisite situations including a person who is conveniently dying, the requisite blather of emotions and revelations. 519 pages of it.
Funny stuff: Ludo and Evie, Camilla and Heccy, and pig Leonard at the wedding. For someone who likes chick lit (it brings out the sarcastic in me) this is probably a good book.
If it hadn't been for Ludo I would have given this book a lower rating.

I am putting this book into bookstogive's Lit/Fic VBB

Not selected but I am leaving it in for a second round.

I am taking this out of the book box and will probably be wild releasing it.

Left at the Little Free Library on 34th or 35th NE near 70th NE in Seattle.