Thanks to HQ and Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for a review.

I really enjoyed this story of Liv a 42 year old mum (about to be an empty nester) feeling a little lost. She cleans for some awful people but in amongst this she also cleans for reclusive Essie Starling who is the author of Liv's favourite book series which also seems to have lost it's way a little.

This book appears to be on Good Reads as The Messy Lives of Book People so I have also left a review there.

I did not finish this one. I managed reading up to 30% and I had to stop due to the amount of stereotypes about people on humble jobs such as cleaning. There is nothing wrong with that line of work but the way is expressed in this book it comes across as if people like the main character are some kind of losers that need get a different job in order to be more respected. As someone who has a degree but works in something similar, I was offended. I guess is the way of the writer to make the main character somehow successful in an unrealistic way.

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to share my views on books, Thank you to the publisher and author for allowing me to read an eARC of this book, I was very excited to get my hands on this book.

I liked this book overall, firstly the cover is beautiful. I have not read from Phaedra Patrick before so I was very excited but also cautious going into this book, but I shouldn't have been I loved this book. The writing style was beautiful the initial relationship between the main two ladies is beautiful and I loved that the heroine had her own thoughts and feelings and didn't curve to the mould that she could have been forced into, I loved how she works on something that means everything to her and the character progression is beautiful.

Although unfortunately, I couldn't find it on GoodReads to mark as read and put my review on there.

This is a highly original and unlikely story about 42 year old Liv who works as a cleaner to, amongst others, a best selling author who she is a huge fan of. When the author dies Liv is left in a complex scenario of not only being asked to complete her unfinished 20th novel but also not to tell anyone she has died for six months. The challenges this causes Liv are what makes this novel as you see her character transforming as she not only tackles the unexpected task of completing the book but also uncovering the mystery of the authors past in unlikely ways. Liv was a good person to start with but in the six months she really comes into her own and it’s interesting to see how it impacts on her life and the way she starts viewing herself.