Abi goes to live in Imogen's summer home with a housekeeper I truly wanted to smack the shit out of.

Forced to throw themselves at the mercy of Emerald’s uncle who begrudgingly allows them on his farm and desperate to find work, Emerald must leave her family and travel to London to become the companion of a distant aunt she’s never met. Not everyone is meant to be a mother and I'm sick and tired of reading stories like Abi's that make it seem like if you don't fall in love with your baby there's something not right with you. Emerald Winter has lived a privileged life with her parents and her younger sister Abigail in the stately Astley House.

If I got pregnant and didn't want it and was against abortion and I had some woman or many people as society tends too do to women who choose not to have kids telling me constantly you'll fall in love the moment you see the baby and I see the baby and see trauma or have no feelings for it I'm going to feel like a failure, I'm going to resent the kid if people keep telling me to give it a chance and push the kid on me.

I felt like the reader is forced to compare between the flighty younger sister and the able, responsible elder one. Emerald Winter has lived a privileged life with her parents and her younger sister Abigail in the stately AstleyHouse. Emerald Winter life suddenly changes when her father disappears, leaving the family in enormous debt. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries and has sold over four million copies across her career. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.

Emerald Pritchard has lived a privileged life with her parents and her younger sister Abigail in the stately Astley House on the outskirts of Nuneaton. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Rebellious Abigail is unwilling to lower herself to doing the menial farm chores and instead runs away, finding work as a hostess in a club in Soho, where she soon finds herself in desperate trouble. But as I said I skipped over most of those parts and I read the actual decent ones like Emmyand Dorcas who learned and grew throughout the story which takes place over a year only aunt Imogen was a fun character and Jasper made a truly rotten if slightly stupid villain.