Great fun book I loved the characters of Cleo and Robyn, especially Robyn with her chaotic lifestyle, and the book just flows really well keeping your interest throughout. Definitely a perfect light summer read to brighten your day.

I loved this book. A joy to read and a compete change from my usual crime and thriller novels.

Robyn has a wonderfully creative imagination which is an asset as an estate agent. However real life is less successful as she has an aversion to practical things like housework and admin tasks.

Her sister Cleo has a family and runs a successful cleaning business but although close in age they are very different.

When Robyn's lack of organisation and inattention to detail catches up with her and she is publicly fired in the most humiliating way, her mother persuades her to help out her sister. Robyn assumes she will be helping with developing online marketing for Cleo's business. Wrong. The business has staffing issues and Robyn is roped in to clean (that would be my worst nightmare too!). It's a huge learning curve for Robyn.

Meanwhile, having sold her flat and is renting while looking for her next property, she's woo'd by property developer Mitch who wants her input on his next development.

Irresponsible Adult is an easy, but satisfying read - good storytelling, interesting and likeable characters and humour. Past family secrets are revealed which begin to shine a light on the current family dynamics. I loved it.

I had been sent an email link to download this book on the basis that I had read and reviewed a previous book by Lucy Dillon. I'll be honest, I couldn't immediately recall the previous title but when I checked back I had read “All I Ever Wanted” in November 2016 and I had given it 5 stars. So I'll be looking out for her next book and the titles I've missed.

Robyn is overwhelmed by work and life although an adult she just hasn't grown up yet and leads a chaotic life and when she suddenly gets the sack from her job she is left floundering .This is a cosy Family drama with a few secrets to be told .This is not the type of book I generally read but I did enjoy it .Thankyou to NetGalley for my ARC.

An easy read - lighthearted by dealing with serious issues. Really enjoyable, relatable and catches you up in it all. A feel good story. Perfect for the summer.

I really loved this story. Funny and touching as it follows 2 sisters who are very different in personalities! Cleo is doing the family thing, and Robyn isn't! Robyn is still waiting for that 'I feel like a grown up' moment and happy to see where life takes her.

She's also not very good at admin and lives day to day, which drives her sister mad! And when she loses her job and finds herself with no money she's forced down the route of working for her sisters' cleaning company - where she is paired with Jim who is Mr Organised on the cleaning front! He loves to restore order in hoarder houses and it's all very alien to Robyn. Her head is still in the clouds on the work/money front and that doesn't make her look into things with clarity as she should - maybe time with Jim will help her make more sense of her world!

i really enjoyed all the characters in this and it also made me want to blitz my house with all the little cleaning tips offered along the way! The author always captures characters really well and offers interesting insights into the quirks and ways of different people! Highly recommended!

This is a great read! Strong themes of family and grown up responsibility flow under a heady mix of light heartedness, drama and romance. The story is engaging to the point I needed to know what happened leading to an early morning binge read! Theres more than few funny moments coupled some emotionally charged events that make this book difficult to put down and thoroughly enjoyable.

Thank you Netgalley

It was a good book. Really. It was complex, skilfully interweaving some really interesting threads together. There are plenty of subplots, very different, that - surprisingly - work really well together, are really well balanced. And I really enjoyed the fact that the book explores those different themes, such as family dynamics, relationships, your everyday chaos, work, without knowing where you are going, what you're actually doing. However, I am not buying into this adult ADHD, because according to the symptoms listed in the book, I think at least 99% of my friends and colleagues have adult ADHD, me included.

I enjoyed the characters, that are really well developed, and I also enjoyed the fact that there is some of romance interest but it's absolutely not overwhelming the story, brilliantly fitting itself into the whole plot. It was lovely and refreshing to read a story with a great leading character that has problems that you can relate to, and not love problems that would be solved in a second if the characters talked to each other - really, trully refreshing and enjoyable.

While there were moments that the story wasn't progressing and we were moving in circles with Robyn, overall I enjoyed it. I liked where it led to and I liked how it focused on things that you usually don't get so often in books. It was written in a light and engaging way, it was witty and poignant and relatable.

Robyn has to come to a cross roads in her life, after being humiliated at work and then being sacked she has no idea what to do next. After a mix up with her sister Cleo she starts working for Cleo’s company only to be paired with Jim the perfectionist.

A really good book that made me laugh a lot and cry a little.

Irresponsible Adult by Lucy Dillon is the perfect book to read to feel warm and fluffy after a hard day. It's a quick read and it is lovely, relatable, witty and fun

Irresponsible Adult is a warm, fun read which made for a really enjoyable read. Robyn looses her job as an exclusive estate agent and has to join her sisters cleaning firm temporarily. The problem is that Robyn is not an organised individual.

The book is full of laughs, helpful advice, family dynamics and secrets. The characters are well written and very likeable, Jim was my favourite. This is a thoroughly enjoyable easy read.

I enjoyed this lighthearted read - lighthearted but dealing with some real issues - family dynamics, identity, character, trust and lies.

Cleo and Robyn are sisters but so different. Robyn - chaotic and irresponsible - is forced to seek help from her sister and is set to work with Jim as a cleaner. Through Jim she learns why is important about her and how to begin to value herself as she puts her life back together.

He and Cleo help her disentangle herself from a poor financial investment and an exploitative relationship. Meanwhile Cleo has to learn some devastating secrets about her past.

An interesting story - feel good and gentle.

This was a warm and heart felt book and I loved the character of Robyn. You really can’t go wrong with a Lucy Dillon book.

Robyn is an exceptional estate agent she is really good at making online promotional content and finding the right person for the property, She's not so good at keeping up with the paperwork. her chaotic life catches up with her in the most spectacular fashion resulting in her having to find a new job. She can't help trying to put the best version of her life forward even though her sister Cleo seems to think she's being dishonest. Working for Cleo teaches Robyn organisational skills that help her cope with her dismal failures. Really enjoyable look at overcoming life's struggles.

Robyn has found herself in a bit of a pickle. After months of ignoring a growing mountain of paperwork, she dramatically ends up losing her job at an estate agents, just after her previously healthy savings accounts has been drained after choosing to invest in an up-and-coming housing redevelopment scheme, which won’t be helping her pay the rent anytime soon. However, Cleo, her older sister, is pretty desperate for extra workers to help out with her cleaning company…

I struggled a bit with this book. There’s nothing wrong with it, it just didn’t click with me. I found Robyn to be quite a frustrating main character, and felt like we were stuck going in circles a little bit with her. I did, however, quite like Jim, the fellow cleaner she’s paired with, and found them to make an interesting pair. I also adored Terry, a chatty elderly man, whose house they clean once a week.

I did like the overall progression of the story though, culminating in a pretty emotional ending. It did feel like it came somewhat out of the blue, and changed the overall feel of the book quite a bit, but I liked that. It felt true to life. Events like that do shatter the tone of your life.

I just found myself a little bit bored, but I know many others will love this book. It’s funny, witty, and sweet, and holds a pretty strong emotional centre, focusing on family, with a dash of romance. It just wasn’t fully for me.

Thank you to the publishers, and netgalley, for the copy to review.

Fabulous book from Lucy Dillon, thoroughly enjoyed it. Great characters, good believable storyline, easy to read and a good page turner. Perfect beach read! Highly recommended.

A fun story with great characters and I loved how it ended the way I hoped it was going to. Lovely story.
Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this ARC in return for an honest review

Really enjoyed this read. A fun, easy read that took us on Robyn's journey of encountering hurdles, overcoming them and making some startling realisations of her own.

This story was quite good fun. Well written, amusing characters and some great ideas.
I do wish that quite so much of the story wasn’t written in the blurb - it rather spoils some of the surprises.
And who among us wouldn’t like a Jim as a cleaner? Oh, yes please!

Another great book from Lucy Dillon
Robyn and Cleo are sisters but they are like chalk and cheese. Cleo is super organised Robyn is anything but organised
After loosing her job as an estate agent Robyn goes to work temporarily at Cleo's cleaning company where she meets Jim.
Jim has to show her the ropes and tries to get her to clean methodically, quite a challenge.
Long hidden family secrets are revealed when Mel, the girls' mother receives a telephone call about her father who is dying.
A family reset follows
Don't want to give too much away suggest you read it for yourself

Oh I loved this. Another excellent story from Lucy Dillon. We meet chaotic, untidy, admin-hating Robyn a little while after moving into a rental flat after selling her previous home for an undisclosed large sum. She's an estate agent (negotiator) and it was an offer too good to pass up. However, her aforementioned hatred of admin has left her without a job after a chain collapses, leaving a very angry client and some very bad social media publicity.

Robyn's mum thinks this would be an excellent time for Robyn to help out her short-staffed, cleaning-business owning, powerhouse of a sister, Cleo. Cleo's going through some life-changes of her own, after a shock split from her husband and long-term sweetheart Elliott.

Robyn finds herself in Cleo's office, under the misapprehension that she'll be helping Cleo with marketing her business. Cleo has other plans (short-staffed, remember?) and Robyn ends up paired with uptight and precise Jim on a cleaning rota.

Throw in a handsome property developer, who offers Robyn the chance of a lifetime for her nest-egg and some deep, dark family secrets, plus a supporting cast of adorable characters and we have another winner of a tale.

Written with Dillon's usual warmth and wit, as well as insight and empathy in dealing with some challenging issues, and this is a book I didn't want to end. In fact, can we go back? I want more!

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an advanced reader copy.