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A review by bananatricky
About Last Night . . . by Catherine Alliott
4.0
I really enjoyed this book, there were a few inaccuracies about the law and London geography that I spotted but it didn't spoil my enjoyment (and maybe they will get fixed before the book comes out?).
Molly Faulkner lives in a ramshackle house with too much land for a home but not enough for a proper farm with her three children: Lucy, Minna and Nico. Life is a constant struggle for money and Molly is a bit of a wheeler-dealer: raising lambs; packaging and selling lavender soap; selling horses and ponies; selling mail-order underwear, anything to keep the bailiff (who is at least a friendly woman) from the door. it doesn't help that most of her animals are verging on elderly and she hasn't quite lost her city girl soft-heartedness towards animals which means her vet bills are astronomical. Unfortunately the best vet in the area charges like a rhino and dislikes Molly ever since she stood him up for a date. Molly's husband David died just six weeks after they moved to the country and so she has stuck it out for five long years for his sake. The house is a mess, Nico and his mates hang out all the time drinking and smoking weed, Minna is alternately ecstatic and in tears over her love-rat boyfriend Toxic Ted, and Lucy is living in a tiny flat in London.
Then, out of the blue, Molly hears that David's uncle has died and she has inherited a small fortune. Enough to move back to London. Suddenly her thoughts are filled with memories of their previous life in Wandsworth, her former job in PR and the days of wearing high heels and designer clothes. But have five years in the country changed Molly?
In fact, she has inherited a lovely house in South Kensington and meets Felix, a devastatingly handsome artist and art dealer could her life be about to change? And then a blast from Molly's past comes back ...
Although this is the first Catherine Alliott book I have reviewed on GR I am pretty sure I have read at least one previously. If crazy mothers who read palms in a broken down caravan, annoying teenage sons, grumps vets and devastatingly handsome artists are up your street this is the book for you!
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Bumped for release.
Molly Faulkner lives in a ramshackle house with too much land for a home but not enough for a proper farm with her three children: Lucy, Minna and Nico. Life is a constant struggle for money and Molly is a bit of a wheeler-dealer: raising lambs; packaging and selling lavender soap; selling horses and ponies; selling mail-order underwear, anything to keep the bailiff (who is at least a friendly woman) from the door. it doesn't help that most of her animals are verging on elderly and she hasn't quite lost her city girl soft-heartedness towards animals which means her vet bills are astronomical. Unfortunately the best vet in the area charges like a rhino and dislikes Molly ever since she stood him up for a date. Molly's husband David died just six weeks after they moved to the country and so she has stuck it out for five long years for his sake. The house is a mess, Nico and his mates hang out all the time drinking and smoking weed, Minna is alternately ecstatic and in tears over her love-rat boyfriend Toxic Ted, and Lucy is living in a tiny flat in London.
Then, out of the blue, Molly hears that David's uncle has died and she has inherited a small fortune. Enough to move back to London. Suddenly her thoughts are filled with memories of their previous life in Wandsworth, her former job in PR and the days of wearing high heels and designer clothes. But have five years in the country changed Molly?
In fact, she has inherited a lovely house in South Kensington and meets Felix, a devastatingly handsome artist and art dealer could her life be about to change? And then a blast from Molly's past comes back ...
Although this is the first Catherine Alliott book I have reviewed on GR I am pretty sure I have read at least one previously. If crazy mothers who read palms in a broken down caravan, annoying teenage sons, grumps vets and devastatingly handsome artists are up your street this is the book for you!
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Bumped for release.