Sweet, funny, and full of heart 🍩💞. The Doughnut Club is a charming, uplifting story about friendship, love, and finding joy in life’s simple pleasures. Kristina Rahim delivers lovable characters, witty dialogue, and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. I adored the warmth, the quirky setting, and the delicious food references. Perfect for fans of feel-good fiction with sweetness and substance.

This was a good older child’s book about children from donor eggs or sperm, the author writes at the back of the book that every state school in England will have children that were conceived by a donor egg or sperm. I find this true and it’s a good book to show how the children feels about it. Quinn and her brother Olly were both conceived by donor and she wants to find out how many half siblings she has. She goes behind her mums back to find out this. It’s a good subject that is best read by a high schooler. A nice book to discuss with an older child. 4 stars. Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a copy.

A really lovely, sweet, uplifting book.
Although the story contains 'Big Issues', it's not done in an in-your face, overbearing way. It doesn't feel like the author is lecturing or hectoring, and although the plot revolves around being a donor conceived, it's sympathetically and gently done. What I enjoyed was how the author writes about things to which we can all relate - annoying family members, frenemies, working out who we are - regardless of our background and previous experience.
I would definitely recommend!

Absolutely WONDERFUL!
Donor conceived Quinn often feels like the odd-one-out as an artistic dreamer in her surf-loving family. So when her mums announce on their annual seaside holidy that she and her brother Olly have sixteen half-siblings she feels the pull to find out more about her other family. Could there be someone out there who is more like her?

Quinn's search leads her to forget for a while what is important to her as she weaves a web of lies, steals her mums' credit card and sneaks off to meet with a potential new sibling, all while battling the fear that one of her half-siblings may actually be her worst enemy!

Set against the background of a traditional British seaside holiday, this is a great read. Quinn's gradual sink into bad behaviour is thoroughly believable and there is real emotional depth in her struggles to find a place in the family she loves while wondering if there is other family out there who might help her work out who she is.

A wonderful story about family, belonging, misunderstandings and the value of honesty and openness of heart.

A sweetly characterized coming-of-age story exploring themes of identity and belonging from the fresh perspective of donor families. A great read for 8+.

I've just finished this from @nosycrow.bsky.social. a modern classic #KidLitUK MG: family, relationships, humour, mystery, self discovery, bravery in difficult circumstances, inter-generational relationships, lesbian parents, donor babies, fertility issues, creepy crawlies...something for everyone!

Lovely book, pitched really well for younger readers, exploring the experience of being a donor-conceived child. Both the brother-sister relationship, and the children's relationship with their mums, were convincing and sweet. The enemy to friend sub-plot worked well. I thought this book highlighted an area which is seldom discussed so accessibly, and will be buying it for our school library.

What a lovely book for middle stage readers. I really enjoyed the story and was pleased the potentially expected ending wasn't wrapped up in a bow as other may have been tempted to provide. Gently thought provoking and a light examination of familial love and bonds. Will read again with my daughter. Thank you for my ARC - review is my own.

One of a few books mentioning donor conceived children this story centres around Quinn, who together with her younger brother Olly has always known her origins. Their two Mums have been open about it from when the children were young. The siblings do share an unknown father. Quinn is convinced he is key to the fact that she enjoys different activities from the rest of her family as they are so sporty and all Quinn wants to do is draw quietly. But she knows she cannot contact him until she is 18. But then, on their annual trip to the sea, the mums throw them another option when they say that they do have other siblings sharing the same father. Quinn becomes obsessed with finding out more to discover relations who too like a quiet life. But is she looking beyond what is already there?
A great book to inform about what may become much more common practice as young people today grow up.

Quinn and her brother have always known that they are donor conceived, but when their mothers tell them that there are 16 other siblings, Quinn longs to find out if there are any like her, i.e. quiet and artistic, not sporty. What a great story that blends a very serious matter with a lot of humour and empathy. The author deal with a topic that is not often written about, but which should be more widely known about. A great KS2 read.

Through an insightful snapshot of the everyday interactions between Quinn, her brother Olly, their Mama and Mum, Kristina Rahim examines what it means to be related to someone genetically and what it takes to make a family. This book has plenty of intrigue which keep the pages turning and ends with a satisfying heartfelt conclusion. A joy to read as well as being a vital book which examines some of the complexities that the growing number of donor born children may face.