Despite this, I still managed to finish my last book and start another called The Accidental Mother. I also have my Kindle chock full of books I intend to read in the next month. Most of these came from the Good Reads list of the best books of 2013 so I am pretty excited to get started on them.
The Accidental Mother is basically about a woman who is living a pretty carefree young adult life in London…until she learns that her childhood best friend has died in a car accident and left custody of her two young girls, Bella and Izzy, to her. She has to change the way she handles her day to day life. What starts out as a temporary solution where Sophie (the accidental mother) just tries to get by on a day to day basis turns into a longer term situation where she actually cares for and loves the girls. Here is a line I highlighted that shows this character change in Sophie: "Not because she had to, she discovered as they waited at the bus stop, but because she wanted to. And she wanted to not only for the children, whom she had gradually started to admire and even like, but for Carrie, whom she was slowly beginning to miss from the outside in, like a spring thaw." I love the simile at the end, showing how Sophie is both finally starting to grieve, as well as connect to Bella and Izzy.
I think the plot twist is coming my way though, as they just found the girls' father, who abandoned them years ago and in on his way back now that he learned the fate of his ex-wife. Here are a few questions I have:
- Is the father really going to want to be in their lives now considering he previously abandoned them?
- Will the girls want to live with their father os Sophie?
- Will Sophie put the girls ahead of her career?
Update coming soon!
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