Research Catalog

Title

On top of everything / Sarah-Kate Lynch.

Author

Lynch, Sarah-Kate

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Black Swan, 2008.

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Details

Description

313 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

• "A bittersweet story about life, living and the importance of cupcakes"--Back cover.
• When Florence Darling's childhood sweetheart and husband, Harry, leaves her for another man, she doubts she will be able to survive the heartache. Only the thought of her son Monty returning from his gap year Down Under keeps her from death by chocolate cupcake. But when Monty emerges into the arrivals hall at Paddington Station, he is not alone. He is with a woman. An older woman. A woman he introduces as his wife, Crystal. Worse, bad things always happen in threes in Florence's family, so when her doctor leaves a message to ring him urgently, she knows it won't be about a miracle anti-ageing serum. On top of everything, she's lost her job and the plan to turn her crumbling London home into a tea room has hit a major snag. Could life get any worse? It could, or so she thinks, until mysterious handyman Will turns up. Before too long he proves to be just Florence's cup of tea and suddenly life - with all its hiccups - is only just beginning.

Subjects

• Domestic fiction
• New Zealand fiction > 21st century

Genre/Form

• New Zealand fiction – 21st century.
• Domestic fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rotten things happen in threes in Florence's family so when she's fired by her best friend and left by her husband in the space of a single afternoon, she knows there is yet more trouble brewing. And when her son Monty returns from his gap year Down Under it's only too clear what, or who, that trouble is. Then the plan to turn her crumbling home into a tea room hits a snag, the macrame at her sister's house starts to seriously unravel, and why is her doctor leaving so many messages? Enter Will, a mysterious handyman with a secret stash of chocolate truffles, and soon life -- with all its hiccups -- is just her cup of tea.

ISBN

• 9781869419974 (pbk.)
• 1869419979 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 245375910
• SCSB-11425187

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library