Wickham is not Kinsella! :)

The publishers tend, unfortunately, to present all the books of a successful author in similar style. Whether this is always so clever, remains to be seen, but it gives the buyer a certain expectation. The last book by Sophie Kinsella was sooo funny, then this is similarly determined funny ...? In the preface, the author indeed clear that their Kinsella books with Madeleine Wickham not have much in common - but then one has mostly already bought the book. Thus the one star deduction goes to the misleading presentation because the book itself I found very entertaining, albeit in a completely different kind of "normal" than the Kinsella books. No mess, no slapstick. For an interesting, thought-provoking story, although quite predictable ending, but captivating.