"If you’ve ever had sleepless nights over school admissions, had to deal with playground politics…or guffawed at TV shows Motherland or Catastrophe, then stop right now. This book is for you!"
It’s Big Little Lies without the glamour but all of the tantrums (and we don’t mean the kids!) centred around Glass Lake Primary School, a small town community in Ireland. The book opens with a mysterious body in the river and the plot heats up from there.
The character driven plot is led by Bev Franklin, the queen bee of the hive. Every school has one. She’s the pushy mum of Amelia and director of the school's musical. She will do whatever it takes for success and woe betide anyone who gets in her way. When a scandal involving her own daughter threatens to derail the annual school musical’s appearance on telly, Bev takes it to another level.
It’s a sharp, funny and oh so relatable tale. Despite the darker moments, I howled through as I remembered similar scenarios through my years of experiencing competitive parenting at the school gates.
Secrets, double standards, scandal, one upmanship, tragedy, skeletons in the closet. And a murder to solve. It’s deliciously entertaining. And I loved it!
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Their school is about to be taught a lesson…
Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to protect her local school’s reputation.
So when a scandal involving her own daughter threatens to derail the annual school musical’s appearance on national television, Beverley goes into overdrive.
But in her efforts to protect her daughter and keep the musical on track, she misses what’s really going, both in her own house and in the insular Glass Lake community – with dramatic consequences.
Glass Lake primary school’s reputation is about to be shattered…
It Could Never Happen Here features in the following genres: Family Drama, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, eBooks of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction
It Could Never Happen Here is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook (Epub)
It Could Never Happen Here was written by Eithne Shortall and published by Corvus an imprint of Atlantic Books
£5.83
