I thought A Boy Made of Blocks would be impossible to follow but this book is just as good in a diffent yet kind of same way. I loved the characters and some of the conversations they had, casual at times yet at other times quite intense.
I'm wondering what next from this author.

Wow what a truly special book. A wonderful story of single dad Tom and his teenage daughter Hannah. It follows their life through the theatre, a theatre that has become their home and their family. Even though Hannah is extremely ill with a heart condition they make sure that life will go on as always. I so didn't want this book to end

This book really did make me wonder – how can Keith Stuart possibly follow A Boy Made of Blocks? Believe me, he can and he has! A story about a young girl with a life-limiting heart condition, brought up by her single father who runs a provincial theatre that’s on its uppers, could have been so many things. It could have been depressing, or sentimental. It’s neither. Hannah is an edgy, intelligent girl who, though haunted by her probably lack of future, though often scared, takes life by the horns and twists them. She’s trying to fix her dad up with a woman ‘for afterwards,’ so he’s not alone.

It’s a story about the magic of stories. About not giving in, and believing in each other, and of course, about love. Both major characters are believable and funny. You feel their pain, you laugh with their joy. It’s brilliantly done and backed up with a cast of lovely characters, each with their own troubles. I adore this book.

What a completely enchanting book.! Principally this book was about the special and unique relationship between a parent and child; it was about loving, giving, believing, letting people in and letting them go. It dealt with the raw nature of human emotion but also dealt with the magic of the theatre, the magic of storytelling and the magic of mankind at its best. The story was supported (and I was utterly enraptured) by the cast of wonderful characters that made up Tom and Hannah's friends and the local theatre drama group: they were quirky, eclectic, completely three dimensional and so very endearing that everything in me wanted to leap into the page and join them. I am loathe to say more as I would not want to spoil a single moment of this gorgeous novel. I enjoyed Keith Stuart's last book but this one went straight to my heart.