Inheriting Jack

Then the phone rings. Her best friend Anita is dead and everything changes.

Three days later Julia has inherited an eighteen-month-old toddler called Jack. Struggling with grief at the loss of Anita, Julia's first faltering days with her friend's son seem doomed: he'd rather spend his time with a brown plastic toad called Harold and eats nothing but fairy bread. Her life quickly unravels as she attempts to manage Jack, an obsessive client and a brother who sees himself as the next celebrity chef.

But after an embarrassing incident at the gym and a run-in with an ice-cream truck, things start to improve in surprising ways. Julia begins to wonder whether Jack's arrival was not the end of the world, but an unexpected and priceless gift...