If you grew up in the 70’s there will be many references that wake some memories from that time in this story of a young girl reluctantly growing up.
Lucy is a tom boy who doesn’t really care for responsibility and bumbles her way through life. Constantly feeling she has never lived up to her fathers expectations and failing at most that she does she ends up moving back to her parents and the chain of events that then take place see her turn her life around. This is a promising debut that will have you smiling, cringing and crying.
Lucy's a misfit. She's growing up in a large family in a semi-detached house in
Dublin, dreaming of being someone else and making her father proud. It's not
looking promising.
He's an internationally renowned academic, her
siblings are bright achievers, but Lucy is lazy, directionless and never quite
manages to succeed. Perhaps that's because she's not really trying. She hasn't
got the energy to revise for exams, she can't convince herself to care about
coming last and even when she goes to London and finds the perfect job, she is
still destined to fail.
It seems she's going nowhere - fast. But when a
family crisis forces Lucy to grow up, she's going to realise that if she wants a
better life, she'll have to take matters into her own hands. Maybe then her
dreams will come true.
Julia Kelly studied English, Sociology and Journalism in Dublin, and escaped to London for the mad, bad years of life. She now lives in Bray, County Wicklow. This is her first novel.
