Description
Welcome to the Kennedy household:Lila wrote a bestseller about keeping your marriage alive, before discovering her ex was playing happy families with another woman. A woman she sees everyday at school pick-up.Bill, her stepdad, moved in after LilaοΏ½s mum died. HeοΏ½s kind, old-fashioned and driving her absolutely nuts. Celie, LilaοΏ½s eldest, hates school. Hates it so much sheοΏ½s stopped going. Her motherοΏ½s fine with that οΏ½ because she doesnοΏ½t know yet. Violet is nine and sings age-inappropriate rap songs, laughs at fart jokes and Lila dearly hopes sheοΏ½ll never, ever change. And Truant the dog, who has just bitten the American actor whoοΏ½s suddenly landed on the Kennedys' doorstep. This is Gene οΏ½ LilaοΏ½s estranged father, and no oneοΏ½s idea of a role model. He walked out on Lila and her mum years ago οΏ½ and wherever he goes domestic discord follows. Because GeneοΏ½s presence changes things in unexpected ways. Soon the girls discover a kindred spirit in a man always chasing lifeοΏ½s joy. Bill even loosens up. And Lila finds herself, astonishingly, dating. Something is happening to the Kennedy household οΏ½ but what is it? And will it break, or save, their family?

