Today I am pleased to share with you my review of this brilliant release from Fiona Perrin. Thank you to Aria Fiction for inviting me to join the tour and for my copy of the ebook in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
Book Description
No-one said being a single mum would be easy...
Everyone knows that being a single mother means having no time to yourself. But for Callie Brown, its more exhausting than most. She's juggling the needs of three teenage children, two live-in parents, a raffish ex-husband, and a dog who never stops eating.
The last thing Callie needs is anything more on her plate. So when she bumps (quite literally) into a handsome, age-appropriate cyclist, she's quick to dismiss him from her life. After all, if she doesn't have time to brush her hair in the morning, she certainly doesn't have time to fall in love...
Funny, heartwarming and oh-so-true, this is a novel about motherhood, families, and life after divorce, perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Allison Pearson.
My Review
This is a brilliant and very relatable read that I loved from start to finish.
Callie Brown is a single mum who is just doing the bests can to get by and do the best for her children, Twin girls and a stepson. Callie is excited to be leaving work and just getting home to her family for the evening when things take a turn for the worst and Callie is knocked over by a food delivery cyclist. She is slightly confused and is soon telling everyone that she is Miss invisible as that is just how she feels after doing everything for her family.
After a fantastic chat with a nurse at the hospital, with a few tears. Callie is discharged from the hospital and she gets a friend to give her lift home. Once at home her family has no idea of what happened to Callie and she doesn't share the information for what has happened during her day. They don't even ask where she has been.
Life for Callie as a single parent is very difficult. She finds it hard to please everyone. But when things really get tough or her she will fight for everything. She also feels she has no time for herself after giving everything she has to everyone else.
As the story progresses you see all of the ups and downs of single parenting and also working at the same time. Callie is doing her best to hold her family together, this proves to be very difficult when her stepson, Wilf's father is determined to have him live with his new wife in another country. With dealing with this and trying to get her twin daughters through their GCSE exams, as well as looking after her increasingly difficult parents life is hard for Callie and there is no time for romance for Callie either. Even if it is the handsome delivery driver that knocked her over.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It is very well written and flows with ease. I loved getting to know all of the characters that are in this story and I loved how they all had a part to play in the in the life of Callie Brown. I liked how all of the issues within the book could be things that could happen to all of us in our lives, this made you feel compassion for Callie.
This is the first book I have read by Fiona Perrin and I am really looking forward to reading more.
Published by Aria on 11th July 2019
Purchase Links
Amazon - https://amzn.to/2W85ttz
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iBooks - https://apple.co/2WcEw8f
About the Author
Fiona Perrin was a journalist and copywriter before building a career as a sales and marketing director in industry. Having always written, she completed the Curtis Brown Creative Writing course before writing The Story After Us. Fiona grew up in Cornwall, hung out for a long time in London and then Hertfordshire, and now writes as often as possible from her study overlooking the sea at the end of The Lizard peninsula.
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