Family For Beginners

Name: Family For Beginners
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Sarah Morgan

Mar 2020 · HarperCollins UK

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4 reviews

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‘This story is overflowing with love, laughter, and learning to accept the changes that life can throw at you. A perfect heartwarming read’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A truly heartwarming book about love, friendships, grief, honesty and forgiveness. A definite 5 star read’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Family for Beginners has the ability to draw you in and keep you entertained and enthralled. I read it in one sitting and the characters are staying with me long after the book closed . . . This is another winner from Sarah Morgan, and I look forward to her next novel’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘One of best feel-good books I’ve read in a long time. Can’t recommend enough!!!’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Who says you can’t choose your family?

When Flora falls in love with Jack, suddenly she’s not only handling a very cranky teenager, but she’s also living in the shadow of Jack’s perfect, immortalised wife, Becca. Every summer, Becca and Jack would holiday with Becca’s oldest friends and Jack wants to continue the tradition, so now Flora must face a summer trying to live up to Becca’s memory, with not only Jack’s daughter looking on, but with Becca’s best friends judging her every move...

The more Flora tries to impress everyone, the more things go horribly wrong...but as the summer unfolds, Flora begins pushing her own boundaries, and finding herself in a way that she never thought she needed to.

And she soon learns that families come in all shapes and sizes.

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Praise for Sarah Morgan

‘Joyful, uplifting and overflowing with love. Sarah’s writing speaks straight to my heart’ Cathy Bramley, Sunday Times bestseller

‘I adored it! I felt every character's pain, hope, and reluctant vulnerability. It forced me to open my heart right along with them. Sarah Morgan is a master storyteller’ Laura Jane Williams, bestselling author of Our Stop

‘A sparkling tale of acceptance and love’ Woman’s Weekly

‘The cast of lively characters instantly draws you in’ Woman & Home

Ratings and reviews

5.0

4 reviews

Claire McPartlin

March 26, 2020

A very enjoyable book, with lots of emotion. Jack is a father of two girls, Izzy 17 and Molly 7, and they lost their wife/mother a year ago very suddenly. Then when buying flowers for Izzy one day Jack meets Flora, who works in the florist, and a romance starts. Izzy has no family, having also lost her mother when she was young (8 years) and recently lost her aunt who took her in when her mother died, but was very unloving towards her and just put up with her all her life. Flora was a really lovely character, although a bit too much of a 'pleaser', trying to make everyone happy, sometimes to her detriment. But this slowly changed as the book went on and she became slightly more assertive, but still keeping the lovely caring person that she was. Jack, whilst obviously a loving father and nice guy, was clueless and did irritate me quite a bit. He had absolutely no idea what was going on in his daughters lives, especially Izzy who was really struggling but had stepped into the mother role and was acting perfectly, as if everything was really under control, to keep everyone happy. But then Flora got together with Jack and things started to get interesting, as another woman coming into the mix was bound to cause friction with Izzy. There are secrets being kept by a few people that come out as the story progresses and are eventually resolved, most revolving around the deceased wife/mother, Becca, who still seemed to be controlling everyone even after her death. A really enjoyable read that got better and better as the book went on, with the story definitely revolving around all the female characters, with the male characters taking more of a back-seat.

Grace J. Reviewerlady

April 2, 2020

There's one thing I can be sure of with a novel from Sarah Morgan - it will be an excellent read and different to any other of hers! When Flora meets Jack she falls hard. But Jack comes as part of a package; a widower, he has two daughters and the elder one is very protective of her current family unit and doesn't welcome any outsiders. When it is proposed that Flora joins them on their annual holiday to England's Lake District, she wonders if she can live up to Becca who was, apparently, the perfect wife and mother, and also best friends with the couple they are going to stay with. Can Flora manage to survive these three weeks? Another terrific read from an author who really understands her characters! This is a wonderful novel, full of hidden secrets and misunderstandings and beautifully written, as always from Sarah. The characters really come alive on the page and it makes for an enchanting read. Perfectly true-to-life with lots of ups and downs along the way, and some of the funniest conversations I've ever come across! A superb read, one I highly recommend and absolutely earning all five sparkling stars!

About the author

Sarah Morgan is an international bestseller and Sunday Times bestselling author of A Wedding in December and The Christmas Sisters. She has sold over eighteen million books worldwide.

Sarah lives near London, England with her family and when she isn't writing or reading, she likes to spend time outdoors hiking or riding her mountain bike.

Join Sarah's mailing list at sarahmorgan.com for all book news. For more insight into her writing life follow her on Facebook at facebook/AuthorSarahMorgan and on Instagram at @sarahmorganwrites. Contact Sarah at [email protected]

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