Fiona Palmer
Reviewed by Helen
This is a compelling and moving story with emotions and feelings jumping of the pages, as we go from 1975 to present day and we meet Bill who is 72, he has just lost his wife but has a daughter and two grandkids and is an easy going man who still enjoys life, although he needs a hip replacement, but his life and his daughter Sarah’s are going to be turned upside down as this family grows.
Sarah, beautiful Sarah, busy mother to two children wife to hard working Andrew, she needs to keep up with the Jones and is missing her mother very much she needs someone to talk to although she is very close to her father another woman is what she wants, and no matter how many times she wished she never got that sibling she wanted so much.
Then we meet Emma only child and nurse caring loving woman wife to Steve FIFO worker mother to three kids two teenagers and one not far off being a teenager her life is busy but fun and family time comes before anything else, but when she finds out the her father is not her biological father questions are asked and she meets the man who did father her and discovers she has a sister a sister that she always wanted.
Then Adam makes his presence to us he is in his forties was bought up by his loving single Mum, he is a very good florist and has decided that it is time to find his father and his Mum Pauline goes all out to help and Adam meets Bill and discovers he has two sisters, which he is over the moon about.
Then we meet Michelle cake maker extraordinaire now Michelle has always known that she was adopted and she has an adopted brother as well, she is single and has always regretted not meeting someone and having children of her own, and has decided to try and find her biological parents, this brings her to finally find her mother.
I loved getting to know all of the characters in this wonderful story, I felt their pain and their happiness, the joy and shock as each learned about each other and Bill the man who always wanted a big family finally gets that, he may not be able to do the things that he used to but the love for all of them is there. The connections between the siblings all different as they have been bought up with different parents is amazing and the way they coped with each other wonderful, a beautiful story of families and love, yes there were tears from me but there was also a lot of smiling, thank you MS Palmer for another fabulous story, this is one that I highly recommend you really need to read this one it really is absorbing.
4.5 stars for a fabulous story
Expected publication:
August 28th 2018
by Hachette Australia
