This is the first book I have read by this author and I have a coupe more of her books in my to read pile that is ever growing !!!!!!!!
I enjoyed every page and laughed out many times so this is a must read book for lazy day in the sun or an escape from a busy lifestyle.
In this book we meet Alice a single mother to two teenage boys, Logan and Fergus in a little flat contented and she lives close by to the boys school which she works at during the day and by night and weekender she runs her meringue business on the side .Life is good, but her three friends have other plans........
Her best friend's feel that she needs a man in her life it has been far to long for since she had some lovin in her life so she is set up on blind dates.
Val is the first to produce her date of Giles who works with her who happens to be a younger man at first she is not sure about going on a date with a young man but she enjoys her time with Giles till she is mortified that she is taken for hid mother !!!!! and decides that maybe that had scared of Giles for life and doesn't think that she will hear for him anytime soon.
Her second date catches her on a whim and when she blasts down the phone thinking its one of the boys and again left mortified as its Stephen calling about a date they meet for lunch but the date is left to his choice and he books a pizza place within a children's play area !!!!
Stephen the dentist is a little out of practice as he is the sole parent to his daughter and when he is not working his life runs around this daughter's the date goes well and Alice like Stephen but fills that they will be good friends...
With all this extra active of her love life Alice has to deal with the boys growing up and holidaying with they father for the Easter Holidays so with this found freedom she decides to go to Paris with Charlie another date, he whisks her of to Paris she wants to see the sights that she hasn't seen in a long while but Charlie has other ideas but Alice manages to escape his clutches and if that didn't put her off then Charlie stealing things from the hotel and decides that her and Charlie are not suited in any form.
Her mother comes to stay which breaks up the loss of the boys and they celebrate her birthday and decide to visit a museum and bump into to Stephen and Molly his daughter, they land up spending the day together it felt easy to be around Stephen .Even Molly loved spending time with Alice's mother and her wild stories by the day of the day she was pairing Alice and Stephen off, but Alice informs her mother that they are no more than friends and nothing more ........
On return of Logan's and Fergus's little break with they father she finds out that Logan is moving out and in with his father and Patsy his girlfriend he has promise that he is converting the barn into an apartment for him with out even talking to Alice about it .
Alice doesn't take the news well losing one of her babies also she is turning 40 is not helping things but she doesn't have time to brood as the meringue business is taking off and she finds herself in the local deli run by Pascal hot and French owner who is flirting with her !!! his voice does wonders but Alice has had enough of dates and it goes nowhere.
her birthday arrives and she heads out to the bar for drinks with the girls but lands up at a surprise party for her and someone had invited the hot deli owner she spends most of the night talking to Pascal and they arrange to meet for drinks at a later date but her party doesn't go to plan as Logan crashes on to the floor in pain and a tooth missing Alice spends the rest of the party in A&E then phones Stephen as he is the only dentist she knows of the top of her head and he tells her to come round in the morning and he will sort it out .
How does Alice cope with the boys growing up and not being boys anymore but growing men !!!
Who's Alice prince charming the out of practice dentist or the hot deli owner well you will just have to read the book as you will love every minuet.
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