Grace has moved back home to the crumbling farm in Wales and is now struggling with looking after her father, Jack. Her brother was lost at sea many years ago and now every night she lulls her father to sleep with a recording of the shipping forecast saying that all is well at sea.
Then one day, when Grace is at work, a girl turns up and speaks with Jack, but due to Jacks dementia he can’t remember.
This is a lovely book about family and finding family, beautifully written and well worth reading. My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the arc.

Poignant and emotional, it was a journey more than a read. Biggs did a lovely job showing the different points of view and how hard it is to become a caregiver to your parents, especially when they have something like dementia. The characters are all well thought out and full of heart which is important with this sort of read.

The pacing was pretty well balanced too, and Biggs avoided any lulls. (Which made it hard to put down!)

I do think that maybe there were too many things going on at once, too many dramatic plot points when just any one or two of those would have done well. But that's a personal preference.

3.75/5 Stars from me, and I would read more by Biggs. Thanks so much to the publisher for an eARC in exchange for my honest review. Full review will be up soon on my blog.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an early read of this poignant book. It's a beautiful story about families, love and loss. Kathy Biggs has written both Jack's and Grace's stories so skilfully and sympathetically. Although the topic of dementia is sad the book itself is not rather it's a book full of love and hope. I thoroughly enjoyed joining their adventures to Whitby with Malin. Highly recommend.

I loved this book. The characters were interesting, the plot intriguing and the relationships between the various cast pulled on my heart strings. What a belter of a book!

Attention All Shipping is a beautiful book, which walks that fine line between comedy and tragedy. Highly recommended for fans of Rachel Joyce or Fredrik Backman.

Attention All Shopping is a poignant book that will take your emotions on a rollercoaster of a ride.

Grace is a woman who, after suffering her own losses, cares for her ageing dad with dementia. Both have lost their sons but Jack, her dad, has forgotten that his son Michael died many years ago and every night he falls asleep listening to the shipping forecast in the belief it tells him about his sons whereabouts. One night, a young girl comes to their home claiming to be the daughter of the late Michael but the dates don’t match. What follows is a journey by the 3 generations together to find out the truth and seek the closure they each need.

From the opening chapters, you can feel the sadness coming from Grace: of her own losses, her struggles in caring for her dad and the farm. You can feel the confusions but also the expectations experienced by Jack. You can sense the slow building hope, the frustrations but also the developing bonds between Grace, Jack and Malin. It’s a beautiful story of hope, of family and reconnection. One I will read again.

I got to read a pre-release copy courtesy of Netgalley and publisher HarperCollins.

A fantastic read. The sense of bond between mother and father was just so touching. I devoured it and loved every moment. A beautiful story.

What a beautiful story about family, responsibilities and finding your own life. This is a well-written book with sympathetically drawn characters. Just when you think the story is following predictable lines, it shifts and surprises you. The ending was very heartwarming and emotional. It was impossible to hold back the tears.
Highly recommended.

A lovely heartwarming read - 5 stars from me.

A beautiful tale of Jack, who has dementia, living on the crumbling family farm with his daughter, Grace. Overwhelmed by her own personal tragedies, she is trying to care for her dad, work full time and keep the farm going.

The loss of his son, Michael, at sea has damaged the remaining family members. Into this situation comes Malin who claims to be Michael’s daughter born after his death in 1999. Could he be alive? The three of them go on a road trip to Whitby to investigate.

In the process all of them learn more about themselves, become a family and learn to look towards a more hopeful future.

Beautifully written.

Grace lives at home on a derelict farm, holds down a job whilst looking after her father who has dementia. He mother has died and her brother drowned at sea years ago. Her life is all work and little pleasure with no hope of improvement in sight. Then a young girl appears, claiming to be Michael, the dead brother's daughter - but he died before she was born..... or did he? They set off in the girl's camper van in a search across the country to see if they can discover what happened to Michael. Its a beautiful representation of how dementia takes away our loved ones, and teases us with flash-backs of what they used to be. But its not all misery - there can be redemption for the most unpromising situations.

Biggs smoothly creates a story about a family whose past hurts stall their future. They set out on a hero’s journey with all the attendant perils and find that answers lie in how we let ourselves continue, step after step.

In Biggs hands we can easily see how the story we have, or the story we build up in our mind about this or that, can so easily change with a slightly askew comma, or a word here or a missing word there. The story changes and we change with it. She makes the correlation between stories, stories we read, stories we live by and the lives we lead. She also explores through Jack’s dementia what it means to lose these stories, the memories, life. Whilst doing this she treads a fine line and does not let her story, or her people fall into the dismal pits. Deft, very deft.

An ARC kindly provided by author/publisher via Netgalley.

I knew by the end of the first chapter that the relationship between Jack and Grace was something special.
It was the high point of the book for me.
There was so much else to enjoy though, the adventure the three of them went on, to discover the truth.
I think the authour did a fantastic job of portraying the struggles and highs of living with someone with dementia.
There were a couple of moments in there that left me a bit emotional.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one.