Is it ever too late to bloom?
Meet Celia. Life hasn’t worked out quite how she’d planned.
Since her son left for university, Celia has felt stuck at home – battling with her husband Geoff over control of the thermostat, and without the merest glint of a social life. Her only joy comes from the plants she nurtures in her makeshift plant hospital in their Glasgow flat.
Then three unexpected things happen:
- She catches Geoff in bed with a secretary from his sausage factory (no pun intended).
- Her high-flying best friend Amanda arrives on her doorstep without warning (but with a very
large suitcase). - A tall handsome French teacher asks her to tend his daughter’s cactus back to health.
Suddenly, Celia finds her life in freefall, but she makes a decision: she won’t let this be the end of her.
She’ll bring herself back to life, just like the plants she works her magic on. But just how do you change the habits of a lifetime?
Fiona Gibson writes bestselling and brilliantly funny novels about the craziness and messiness of family life.
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My thoughts: I really liked Celia, and I love the idea of a plant hospital, as someone who is only able to grow succulents and cacti successfully but loves plants, I need a plant doctor on standby to help me keep the silly things alive.
She’s surrounded by people who love her, despite her deeply rubbish husband in his mouldy caravan. Even though things get a bit chaotic with Amanda crash landing in her spare room, her son home from uni, her mad neighbour bringing cake over and trying to get herself in gear, she’s a good person who deserves to be happy.
The book made me laugh out loud at times and I really liked Enzo and Mathilde too. Geoff the rubbish husband can get in the bin, along with his haggis en croute (yuk). This is feel good fiction at its best.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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