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Title: A Typical Family Christmas
Author: Liz Davies
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Author supplied Copy
Publisher: Self Published
Publication Date: 10th October 2019
Rating: 5 Stars
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For once, Kate Peters would like a happy, family Christmas; the kind of Christmas seen on the TV. She wants harmony and happiness, smiling, glowing faces, tables groaning with food, carol singing around the tree. She wants love, kindness, and goodwill to all men, especially in her own house.
What she doesn’t want is drama. Absolutely no drama, whatsoever.
But what she gets is three stroppy children, two equally stroppy grandmothers, a husband who can’t manage to change a lightbulb, and Pepe the poodle. It’s no wonder she feels unappreciated, overworked, and ignored.
At the end f her tinsel-coated tether, and with the only Christmas spirit being in the form of a bottle of raspberry gin, Kate decides to leave them to it and see how they manage without her. A quiet little hotel somewhere near the sea, where she can pretend Christmas doesn’t exist, is just the thing she needs. Isn’t it?
What she doesn’t want is drama. Absolutely no drama, whatsoever.
But what she gets is three stroppy children, two equally stroppy grandmothers, a husband who can’t manage to change a lightbulb, and Pepe the poodle. It’s no wonder she feels unappreciated, overworked, and ignored.
At the end f her tinsel-coated tether, and with the only Christmas spirit being in the form of a bottle of raspberry gin, Kate decides to leave them to it and see how they manage without her. A quiet little hotel somewhere near the sea, where she can pretend Christmas doesn’t exist, is just the thing she needs. Isn’t it?
I couldn't stop smiling and giggling my way through this story.
If I was a part of Kate's family I would probably be tearing my hair out too, but as a fly on the wall watching their run up to Christmas, well I was just greatly amused.
Between the three teenage children who don't get on with each other, Brett, who seems to do as little as his kids and also expects Kate to run around after him, the two grandmothers, who hate each other and are continually trying to outwit each other, and Pepe, the poodle who seems to have never had any training of any sort - it's no wonder Kate is just slightly overwhelmed.
OK, not slightly, but completely and utterly, and overwhelmed, and when you read this and see just what she has to contend with, well I think you may also be feeling rather sympathetic towards her.
Where this book shines is the characters, every single of one of them is so relatable, the odds are you will recognise many elements of your own family within this group, I know I did.
And their antics are hilarious, I never really wanted to be apart from the book, and in fact I'd love to see a sequel, as this family has completely got under my skin.
Every last moment is fabulous, as you read about a family situation that will be so familiar to many.
I could really envision this as a romantic comedy on the big screen, as one of the next big Christmas films, I loved it to that extent and could see everything playing out so so clearly.
Suffice to say I think this is a wonderful festive family story from an author who is getting better and better with each book. Just please don't make me spend time with the Peters family in real life at Christmas, I wouldn't cope!!
Thank you to the author for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
If I was a part of Kate's family I would probably be tearing my hair out too, but as a fly on the wall watching their run up to Christmas, well I was just greatly amused.
Between the three teenage children who don't get on with each other, Brett, who seems to do as little as his kids and also expects Kate to run around after him, the two grandmothers, who hate each other and are continually trying to outwit each other, and Pepe, the poodle who seems to have never had any training of any sort - it's no wonder Kate is just slightly overwhelmed.
OK, not slightly, but completely and utterly, and overwhelmed, and when you read this and see just what she has to contend with, well I think you may also be feeling rather sympathetic towards her.
Where this book shines is the characters, every single of one of them is so relatable, the odds are you will recognise many elements of your own family within this group, I know I did.
And their antics are hilarious, I never really wanted to be apart from the book, and in fact I'd love to see a sequel, as this family has completely got under my skin.
Every last moment is fabulous, as you read about a family situation that will be so familiar to many.
I could really envision this as a romantic comedy on the big screen, as one of the next big Christmas films, I loved it to that extent and could see everything playing out so so clearly.
Suffice to say I think this is a wonderful festive family story from an author who is getting better and better with each book. Just please don't make me spend time with the Peters family in real life at Christmas, I wouldn't cope!!
Thank you to the author for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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