Below the Big Blue Sky
A heartbreaking, heartwarming, laugh-out-loud novel for fans of Jojo Moyes
by Anna McPartlin
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Pub Date 23 Jul 2020 | Archive Date 23 Jul 2020
Bonnier Books UK | Zaffre
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Description
From the bestselling author of The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes comes a huge-hearted novel about death, family and finding laughter in the most bloody mental places.
When forty-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies, she leaves behind a family broken by grief. Her mother Molly is distraught and in danger of losing her faith. Her father Jack spends hour upon hour in the family attic, poring over his old diaries, losing himself in the past. Rabbit's brother Davey finds himself suddenly guardian to her twelve-year-old daughter Juliet. Juliet might be able to fill a hole in Davey's heart - but how can he help Juliet through her grief when he can barely cope with his own?
Meanwhile, Rabbit's sister Grace is struggling with the knowledge that she carries the same gene that made her sister ill, and Rabbit's best friend Marjorie is lost, struggling to remain a part of a family she has always wished was her own now that her link to them is gone.
But even though the Hayes family are all fighting their own battles, they are drawn together by their love for Rabbit, and their love for each other. In the years that follow her death they find new ways to celebrate and remember her, to find humour and hope in the face of tragedy, and to live life to its fullest, as Rabbit would have wanted.
A Note From the Publisher
The feel-good commercial novel of the year perfect for fans of 'Three Things about Elsie' and 'You, Me, Everything'
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781838770785 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 496 |
Featured Reviews
Book Trade Professional 197780
When a book like Rabbit Hayes has completely undone you, you are excited and nervous in equal measure to read a sequel that starts at the point the first book left off. How can it be as good? But I need to know what happened next. The latter outweighed any concerns about the former - and I was not disappointed.
Below the Big Blue Sky flows seamlessly from where Rabbit Hayes ended and is no less devastating, brilliant and hilarious than the original. I laughed, I cried, I refused to put the book down until the very last page had been read. Such a wonderful cast of characters - I especially loved Molly - that it's hard to leave them behind.
Fair to say that I absolutely loved this book and have recommended far and wide.
Reviewer 606062
I hadn’t read The last days of Rabbit Hayes but that didn’t make a difference. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s a story of how the Hayes family are affected by grief and how they all respond in there own ways. A book of love and laugh mixed in with the grief .
Thank you so much net galley for allowing to read this.
Donna Y, Reviewer
Where do I even start with this. Possibly my favourite book of the year and it just flowed so smoothly from The last days of Rabbit Hayes. I cried within the few few pages then laughed so hard minutes later. The Hayes Family are like friends that yoy visit and go for tea. Such a wonderful book I didn't want it to end. Beautiful and captivating, I have no doubt this will be a massive hit
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