Dimensions
130 x 197 x 24mm
At 21, Olivia Martin has mastered the art of cynicism. Maybe that's inevitable because of her dysfunctional family - a desperately needy, alcoholic ex-model mother; a rich, ill-tempered father with an imperious new wife; and a spoiled half-sister. Olivia's modus operandi has been to ignore them all and just drift through life, tough and alone.
However, just as she is in danger of falling in love - or at least in lust - for the first time, Olivia's familial responsibilities come crashing down about her. Her father and his second wife are killed in a car crash, and she is left to inherit both their considerable fortune and guardianship of her four-year-old half-sister.
Despite Olivia's view that "If I'd wanted to be saddled with a kid at this point in my life, I'd have grown up in Oklahoma", she has no choice but to do the right thing and try to raise a child she's only met a handful of times.
Tony Parsons meets Allison Pearson in this intensely moving debut, laced with bitter-sweet humour and with a surprising romantic heart.
