The characters, adults and children, are flat-out wonderful, fully realized, and unique. Farrant offers a story that is a mix of madcap fun and heartfelt emotion. Still, there is skateboarding to be learned and friendships to be reignited-and a family to be repaired, but that's a more complicated process. When wild, sweet Joss moves next door, he captures her heart, only to break it after becoming involved with Flora. But life has a way of drawing in even the reluctant. And Blue, almost 13, is watching from behind her video camera, trying not to get involved with life when it can hurt you so badly. The kids are being watched by male au pair Zoran. Dad spends most of his time in Warwick-perhaps writing, perhaps having an affair (possibly both, of course). But now Iris is dead, and the family is falling apart. Natasha Farrant gives a full, engaging portrait of a complicated family through the eyes of Blue Gadsby, surviving twin and aspiring filmmaker., Bluebell is poignantly marked out as the observer in a crowd of actors.readers who enjoy quirky family stories may want to follow the Gadsbys' journey to reconciliation., "They used to be a unit: Flora, twins Bluebell and Iris, Twig, and Jasmine.
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