When Catherine wrote, 'You, Me, Everything' I never thought she would be able to top it - well she has.
'Messy, Wonderful, Us', is about Allie living a focused existence as an academic research scientist, when one day she finds a letter which whisks her off to Italy to find out what happen to her mother all those years ago. Ed her best friend joins her in the bid to sort his marriage out by taking a break away from it all. But as the secrets unfold, the two best friends are forced to confront questions about their own life-long relationship.
I loved it, it’s hard to articulate how much I actually loved it, but il try.
The characters - I adored. There were a great mixture of characters, strong and aspiring and some you despise, everything you need in a good book.
The story - grips you to your seat all the way through with it’s wonderful twists and turns. I love how the book is a mixture of a few stories all building up to that ending...
Wow that ending - the four T’s - terrific, terrifying, tearfulness, triumphant.
A beautiful, poignant story so rewarding that you will feel deflated that’s it’s ended and elated that you were honoured to read such a wonderful story about family, love and the difficulties life can face. Lovely, lovely, lovely. Catherine Issac deserves high praise for this.
5 out of 5 is just not high enough!
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