Alex Cotton
ASIN: B00M5EIC72
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 210
Third book in the series.Continuing on from "Don't Tell My Mum". It's now 1977 and we follow Alex through the twists and turns of growing up and leaving home, from the engagement party that she doesn't really want, through to the wedding that has nothing to do with the bride and groom at all and ending with a baby that was planned but 'not supposed to happen for another year'. Among all the events are the ever present strange family. the attention seeking, all singing mother who can now buy a hat and be centre of attention at the wedding, the father, paralyzed with fear at the thought of walking down the aisle and giving a speech and the little brother who is still of a nervous disposition but has now swapped Avon collecting for drinking at age nine.We also meet the in- laws who are even stranger and make the first family seem almost normal. Throw in a house full of slugs, shoplifting ...