Daddy’s Girl

I'm a Josephine Cox fan so it was great to receive an early copy of Daddy's Girl and it didn't disappoint.

It is certainly well-written and up to the usual standard. It was a sometimes bleak and emotional family drama and the depiction of the "evil stepmother" was particularly well drawn. Although there was a lot of heartache in this book, the dark times in the book are always tempered by some lighter interlude and I was glad that there was a highly satisfying ending.

A brilliant read for fans of Josephine Cox and authors like Lesley Pearse. Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of Daddy's Girl in exchange for an honest review.

What an exciting read.
The Quinn’s are your average family, mother and father Ava & Fred with son Joe and younger daughters Sarah and Janette.
Sarah’s suspicions are aroused when Ava starts making suggestions for when she’s not around, never thinking that there was a chance it would happen any time soon.
The house is in turmoil after the loss of Ava who ran it with precision, unfortunately Sarah is expected leave school and take her mothers place. A heavy load for a young girl, especially with a worse than useless father and a brother who is always losing his job.
The Joe and Sarah start to notice out of character changes in their father, could he have a friend!
Sarah and Janette have been staying with their aunt Irene in Fettling when on their return they are introduced to Mavis Swindel (an appropriate name I thought)
Mavis runs a boarding house, I use that term loosely, it sounds more like a ramshackle. You just had to laugh at places.
Mavis certainly knew how to get her own way, no matter the cost. I loved the descriptions of the lodgers, especially Percy Lovell.
This book just flows, always something happening. I couldn’t put it down. Even when I got to the end it just left me wanting more.
I look forward to the next book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ doesn’t do it justice.

A real family saga telling the story of when a family lose the mother and the consequences of the father finding a new wife and how it affects the whole family. A great read

Sarah Quinn is heartbroken when her mother Ava dies, she made Sarah promise if anything ever happened to her, that she would take care of her little sister Janette, older brother Joe and father Fred. Her dad's normally a jovial man, now he’s depressed and lost without Ava, he's started drinking, hardly ever home and Sarah’s left to do all the cooking, cleaning, has a job and she's run ragged. The only highlight is when the girls go to visit their aunty Irene, she’s a gardener in Suffolk and at Fettling House.

The siblings receive a big shock when Fred announces he’s marrying widow Mavis Swindel, she owns a house near the Great Edge and on the moors. Fred thinks Mavis is the bee’s knees, Joe, Sarah, Janette and don’t like her, something about her is odd and the boarding house is very rundown.

Mavis is the queen of manipulation, Fred’s oblivious to his wife’s faults and she extremely frugal and tight with her money. Sarah has a feeling about Mavis, not only is she lazy, she’s hiding something, with help she investigates her past, to say she’s shocked by what she discovers is an understatement, and how can she tell her father?

I received a digital copy of Daddy’s Girl by Josephine Cox and Gilly Middleton from HarperCollins UK and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The well written narrative is really interesting and it looks at life in England in the early 1930's, where everyone in the family who could was expected to work, and some people thought higher education was a waste of time and money for girls?

I really liked Sarah’s and her aunty Irene’s characters, the lodgers at the boarding house and George the blacksmith. Sarah was selfless, she certainly never gave up, outsmarted her cunning step-mother, a wonderful and nostalgic historical saga and five stars from me.

Captivating story of a young family struggling after the death of their beloved mum. When their dad suddenly announces his wedding to a very unsavoury woman the children's lives are turned upside down. Sarah, the eldest has to shelve all dreams of running her own little business and work as a skivvy to her evil new stepmother in order to allow her clever little sister Janette to remain in school. Their only respite from their misery is the little time they get to spend with their beloved aunt Irene. Things come to a head when one of the lodgers in her stepmother' s house, attempts to rape Sarah. From then in Sarah is determined to uncover the truth of the stepmother' s past. I won't spoil the story but can heartily recommend it. Perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson and a very worthy 5star rating!