Book info

• Title Family For Beginners
• Author Sarah Morgan
• Year 2020
• Genre Romance

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.

Thoughts

This is a summertime Sarah Morgan book, I usually read the Christmas ones so it was a refreshing change of pace. Of course it’s more of the same good romantic comedy work from Morgan, although this one does have a series edge to it. Plenty of discussion around grief and coping, and the difficulties around blended families. I found it enjoyable, the characters entirely believable and likable even when they’re acting up, and it was a really well told story. Top work! I should read more than just Christmas books from Sarah Morgan in future!

Rating: 4 / 5