Looking for Lucy by Julie HoustonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wow, there is so much to unpack here, I don't know where to start.
Clementine and Lucy are twins, adopted at birth. Clementine was the 'good twin' and had a great career as a chef in front of her when she had to give it all up to look after her daughter Allegra. Now she lives in the middle of the red light district, barely making ends meet as she studies for a degree in hotel management and waitresses to pay her bills. Lucy was the rebellious twin, things escalated and now Clementine can't find her, she hopes that living on Emerald Street she might run into Lucy one day.
Then Peter, one of Clementine's regular customers at the restaurant, proposes after a short courtship. Clementine doesn't love him but he is kind, adores Allegra and welcomes the two of them to his beautiful home. He even has two children of his own from a former marriage. Also through Peter she meets local businessman and entrepreneur David Henderson who is so impressed with Clementine's cookery at a dinner party that he asks if she would be willing to cater for dinner parties he holds for overseas clients periodically. Could this be the break that Clementine deserves?
Interspersed with Clementine's story and her search for Lucy is also the story of their birth mother Sarah, both when she got pregnant and gave the twins up for adoption and in the present day where she is married to the unfortunately named Reverend Roger Rabbitt and has three other children.
But all that is just the tip of the iceberg, and I don't want to say anymore because it could be spoilery. It was a cracking good read, spoiled only slightly by the fact that I have read some of the later books so I knew some of what would happen to Clementine.
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