5.0 out of 5 stars So Many Surprises

S. · June 17, 2025

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great story

S.B. · April 22, 2025

I really enjoyed the novel. I recommend it. If you like a good story, get this book. It's a fast read.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun read

s.D.w. · May 5, 2025

Loved this book. Easy read, Loved the characters in this story. Hated for it to end, would like to see what happens next.

5.0 out of 5 stars Heartfelt Story

M. · March 31, 2025

The characters in this book are quirky and likable though it’s hard to understand how someone like Ed who was supposedly a tech genius and business smart could be such an idiot when it came to insider trading and protecting his company. Jess never giving up the fight to give her kids a better life showed how strong she was and Ed always willing to help Jess out whenever she needed it most was sweet but gassy, protective Norman was the best and this book will definitely pull at your heart strings.

4.0 out of 5 stars another great book

g. · April 2, 2025

Mayes is one of my favorite authors. Her books never disappoint and always have good advice mixed in while being great fast reads. The English vocabulary is slightly off putting for me, but that’s just a personal thing.

3.0 out of 5 stars No book for old men

D.R. · June 28, 2024

I’ve left this at 3 stars for neutral as I am clearly not the target audience. 60 year old men raising kids on his own is not the right person to have an opinion on the story itself. I will say the writing is unconvincing and cliched. This is a sweet candy that may taste good but leaves you empty and unsatisfied. It’s an easy read. I personally didn’t like the plot which is contrived, predictable and somewhat lifted from multiple books and movies almost like an AI wrote it. It’s not objectionable just not my normal choice and I’m not sure how it came recommended to me.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book ever

A. · April 28, 2025

Probably my new favorite book. I loved this one and was so delighted at the characters and development of the story. Please do yourself a favor and read this book.

5.0 out of 5 stars All of author’s books are golden

N.P. · May 19, 2025

Great book

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m. · April 7, 2017

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Raw, funny, heart-breaking

T. · November 5, 2024

Oh boy, I LOVED this book. In fact, all of Jo Jo Moyes’ stories are absorbing and un-putdownable, even her earlier, more historical genre books. She is such a talented author who presents us every time with credible, interesting characters whom we want to cheer on.What should basically turn out to be a depressing read, featuring a struggling one-parent family, is not. Jess, with her cleaning and bar jobs is just about coping to bring up Tanzie, her talented daughter, a maths prodigy who doesn’t fit in at her tough school. She cares for Nicky too: not her son, but the result of her loser of a husband, and his affair with a drug addict. Said husband, Marty, has also dumped Jess, Nicky and Tanzie for a new woman and offers no support whatsoever. Nicky is another child who is “a bit different”, who needs to find his “tribe”, his own people and in the meantime is mercilessly bullied and beaten up by the loathsome Fisher and his gang. Seriously beaten up.Enter Ed Nicholls, another “different” person, with a clever IT brain and owning a successful software business. Jess and her friend Nathalie clean his swanky, vast house that never looks lived in every week. Materially Ed wants for nothing but his private life is a mess and in a mad, thoughtless, rather naïve and desperate moment, he gives away company information – a disastrous move. He is now at rock bottom too. (And also another lovable character). He becomes entangled in the life of Jess and the plot thickens.No spoilers but the main event is a crazy car journey to Scotland where all these “different” characters, (minus of course the sh**** Marty), plus a lolloping, farting dog called Norman, travel north for hours to get Tanzie to a Maths Olympiad. Bewildered? All will be explained when you read this fabulous book…It’s an intensely moving story and it is also hilarious in parts: a combo hard to pull off, but Moyes does it exceedingly well and I thoroughly recommend this book. I really couldn’t put it down and it’s her fault if my own writing word count has suffered. What a brilliant writer she is. I’d give her more than 5 stars.

Wonderful Book!

C. · March 23, 2025

Just LOVE Jojo Moyes’s stories. And this one is no different.The ups and downs, fears and hopes of these characters made me cry and not want to stop reading.Listed as my all-time favourite author, I look forward to reading more of her books.

Belle histoire.

P. · March 1, 2015

Une vraie belle histoire avec des personnages attachants qui sont dans le réel, même si je ne me suis pas demandée si Jojo Moyes n’en faisant pas un peu trop avec le « sauvetage » du chien. Bien écrit. On est pris dans l’histoire.

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C.A. · January 14, 2020

buen estado