Family Baggage
Ilsa Evans
Reviewed by Helen
This one was so hard to put down, MS Evans pulled me into this one from the start, I felt so many emotions reading it, happy, sad, and angry and there were so many smiles along the way, Enid Tapscott is dying and she really wished she was more prepared for this as there are a few things that she really needed to do before she left this world and her children, Kat, (Kathryn) George (Georgette) Annie and Harry now they will have to sort through her possessions and the girls will have to sort out what is going to happen to Harry.
These middle aged woman have a lot of work to do and when a secret diary is found and read by George this opens up a can of worms that is going to be needed, to be worked out. In this diary their mother had dubbed Kat Bossy, George the settler and Annie the sook and it does not go down very well with them, but needs must and possessions need to be sorted out and split between them and the four grandchildren, this starts rumblings of what they each want and the emotions are running high fueled by demands from the grandchildren and personal issues especially with George that is putting more pressure on her.
This diary also shows what their mother had been going through while they were all younger this opens up discussions between them which causes lots of tension, soon life is not so easy and the pressure is on George, the settler is doing her best to keep things calm, Kat the bossy one is pushing to get everything done with her lists and Annie the sook is complaining, will the sisters come out on the other side as friends, will they sort their brother out and will the grandchildren all remain as close as they were?
This is a fabulous story that bought back memories of doing the same thing when we lost our mum although there was nowhere near the tension that these siblings shared, I loved Kat and George although I will be honest and say I was not too fond of Annie, MS Evans has bought all of the characters to life on the pages, it made them all think about their lives and for George it pushed her to do something that she has always wanted to do. I loved the epilogue it was so well done.
This is a book that I would highly recommend, I hope I have gotten the review right, thank you MS Evens for a keeper this one is going to stay with me for a long time to come.
My thanks to the publisher for my copy to read and review.
These middle aged woman have a lot of work to do and when a secret diary is found and read by George this opens up a can of worms that is going to be needed, to be worked out. In this diary their mother had dubbed Kat Bossy, George the settler and Annie the sook and it does not go down very well with them, but needs must and possessions need to be sorted out and split between them and the four grandchildren, this starts rumblings of what they each want and the emotions are running high fueled by demands from the grandchildren and personal issues especially with George that is putting more pressure on her.
This diary also shows what their mother had been going through while they were all younger this opens up discussions between them which causes lots of tension, soon life is not so easy and the pressure is on George, the settler is doing her best to keep things calm, Kat the bossy one is pushing to get everything done with her lists and Annie the sook is complaining, will the sisters come out on the other side as friends, will they sort their brother out and will the grandchildren all remain as close as they were?
This is a fabulous story that bought back memories of doing the same thing when we lost our mum although there was nowhere near the tension that these siblings shared, I loved Kat and George although I will be honest and say I was not too fond of Annie, MS Evans has bought all of the characters to life on the pages, it made them all think about their lives and for George it pushed her to do something that she has always wanted to do. I loved the epilogue it was so well done.
This is a book that I would highly recommend, I hope I have gotten the review right, thank you MS Evens for a keeper this one is going to stay with me for a long time to come.
My thanks to the publisher for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
March 8, 2023 by HQ Fiction AU
