“The Sisterhood Rules:

1. Never let a man come between you
2. Share all your secrets
3. Live life to the fullest – girls just wanna have fun

For twin sisters Isabel and Verity, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Izzy’s husband. Unforgivable, right? Devastated by her sister’s betrayal, Izzy casts Verity into social Siberia.
But when their mother goes missing, Verity and Izzy are forced to come together again to find her. And then the estranged sisters’ problems only get bigger. Their mother has a new younger lover and where there’s a will… he’d clearly like to be in it.
Can they stop their mother making a dreadful mistake? And in doing so find a way to bury the pain of the past?
Full of laugh-out-loud humour and devastating pathos, Kathy Lette’s brilliant new novel takes us on a roller-coaster ride which proves that from pain comes healing, from honesty comes forgiveness, and that nothing is more important than your sisters.”

I’ve always enjoyed books by Kathy Lette. They are fast paced and wise cracking and a definite #womanpower genre. So when I saw she had a new book out this year, I was delighted to be granted an advance review copy by Net Galley.

The book follows the story of estranged sisters Izzy and Verity as they try and track down their missing mother, Nicole. The women all work in music in some way, shape or form – which was interestingly explored. There are also geographical location switches – whilst all now live in London (having relocated from Australia when the twins were little) the book takes us to European mountains and Derry for different chunks of the storyline.

There is also a wide variety of supporting cast – from Johnny (Izzy’s husband that Verity stole), Chrissie (Izzy and Johnny’s teenage daughter), Gawain (Nicole’s new alpine horn playing toy boy), Fiachra (Izzy’s guitar student) and Melissa (Nicole’s long suffering manager) who all interweave in the storyline. I particularly enjoyed the interactions between Izzy and Chrissie – having kids of a similar age!

As expected – the book is full of puns, one liners, caustic asides that you would expect from a Kathy Lette book – and if that’s what you want, then it’s perfect – but it can get a bit exhausting. I felt reading this was like spending time with someone who has ADHD – you need to have a lie down in a dark room to decompress afterwards!

Thank you to Net Galley and the publishers for my ARC – I thought from Net Galley it was out in June, but I’m now thinking that might only be in certain geographical areas – as it appears to be out in the UK already!