5 Star
An honest, hilarious and poignant account of the ups and downs of modern family life
Samantha Smythe has her hands full with three active young sons and an absent husband who’s drinking champagne for breakfast in London. And she’s tying herself in knots trying for a longed-for baby girl … And then out of the blue Samantha’s old friend Naomi turns up and deposits her daughter with her.
Samantha Smythe has her hands full with three active young sons and an absent husband who’s drinking champagne for breakfast in London. And she’s tying herself in knots trying for a longed-for baby girl … And then out of the blue Samantha’s old friend Naomi turns up and deposits her daughter with her.
Kathryn - 5 Star
Lost and Found is the sequel to Samantha Smythe's Modern Family Journal and is a tug-at-your-heart-strings but still laugh-out-loud hilariously funny novel that I would recommend to anyone who has kids or thinks they might want them in the future or even can appreciate that motherhood is a bit of a crazy ride sometimes.
Cavendish has a wonderful writing style and her Samantha
Smythe series comes across as a natural and honest account of one mother’s thoughts.
This novel focuses less on the day to day and more on a segment of the
family’s lives when Samantha is trying to come to terms with wanting a daughter
(maybe!) and then ending up with an old friend’s daughter being left to live
with her temporarily. I think this
relationship with little Lexie and her realisation that her old friend Naomi is
not what she wants her to be, really helped to grow Samantha’s character for
the reader. I absolutely love the
children in these novels- I read in the back of the book that it was important
to Cavendish that the children and the husband were real people and she
certainly accomplished that. They are
the best!
There’s nothing about this sequel that I didn’t like- one of
the funniest things about the first novel are the lists throughout the story of
the things her kids won’t eat/will eat, won’t wear/will wear etc. This book doesn’t have the same lists but
there are asides of Samantha’s own thoughts which are just as funny.
Although I’m not exactly like Samantha (I’m definitely not
as patient for a start) I’d like to think that she’s inspired me to be a bit
more relaxed about what my kids eat in a week as well as a few other things...
I have to admit that I feel a little bit attached to Samantha and I have had to
persuade myself that she’s not really someone I can pick up the phone and talk
to- it’s always a bit disappointing actually to realise she isn’t real.
I think I’m going to have a hard time leaving a gap between
this book and the last in the series (which is sitting on my shelf calling to
me already)!
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