Audrey Pepper is just your average divorced, 40-something mum of an18 year old teenage boy who is slowly being driven round the bend by her life. Well, more accurately by her son, Morgan, who is just drifting and seems to think mum will always be there to feed him, clean up after him and pay all his bills. So starts the great underpant-war. Morgan won't pick them up and now neither will Audrey. It all comes to a head when Audrey wins dinner lady of the year and has a choice of two wonderful prizes - £5,000 or a week long French Cookery Course. Which will she choose and will it be good for her?
This is a typical Fiona Gibson story - warm and realistic feeling characters who have their nasty side as well as the nice bits that make them the focus of the story. Whilst some encounters feel a little contrived (does that ever happen to anyone in real life?) knowing that the world is full of surprises that we never anticipate makes even these feel convincing.
The real joy of this story is the inter-personal relationships that show how we are all different people depending who we are with. From the caring and empathetic dinner lady and carer to the brazen woman in her Motorway Lover's eyes, the overbearing, nagging mum to her son, fun friend and then the defender of her son's girlfriend all these personalities are wrapped up in one middle-aged woman. Fiona Gibson really seems to understand human relationships and can write about them in such a lively way her books are a joy to read.
**Review originally published October 6th, 2017**
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