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Amy Matthews - Best, First and Last
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Book Title: Best, First and Last
Author: Amy Matthews
Some family holidays change your life, for better or worse. Best, First and Last is a sharp, heartwarming novel about three generations of women, each at a crossroads, brought together on an impulsive trek to Machu Picchu.
Heather is burned out and broken-hearted. Her mum’s in the middle of a messy divorce. And her grandmother? She’s grieving, with a backpack full of sass and a husband’s ashes. Bonnie, the irrepressible matriarch, decides what they all need is a girls’ trip… on foot, through the Andes.
Between emotional baggage, hilarious mishaps, and the possibility of new love (hello, Owen!), what unfolds is a journey of secrets revealed, strength rediscovered, and love in all its messy, beautiful forms.
Amy Matthews (author of Someone Else’s Bucket List) writes with humour, heart, and whip-smart dialogue. This is a story about healing after heartbreak—without the clichés.
Read if you like: Emma Grey, Marian Keyes, Emily Henry, Nora Ephron, or anyone who can make you laugh-cry in the same chapter.
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Blurb
When twenty-five-year-old Heather Russo breaks up with her boyfriend-again-she can't figure out if she's to blame or he is. Either way, she's miserable, and working at home via Zoom meetings is only making it worse. What's more, all the women in her family are struggling. Mom Sandy is convinced she's wasted her life and is nursing a giant grudge against Heather's father, whom she's now divorcing. Grandmother Bonnie is reeling with the grief of losing her third husband, and is carrying his urn everywhere she goes, even the supermarket. The bottom has fallen out of their lives so abruptly, the trio is clinging to any handhold they can-and slowly but surely losing their grip . . .
Inspired by a friend's adventurous grandson, and determined not to spend her 70th birthday wallowing, Bonnie is ready to take extreme measures. Even if it means dragging her beloved girls along by the hair, they're going to hike the Incan Trail to Machu Picchu! Of course, their emotional baggage gets packed with their lightweight jackets, but as they make the trek, the women also talk, sharing stories and secrets that have been festering for far too long. With every arduous step toward the famed summit, each woman sheds some of the past and its pain, and opens up to the extraordinary possibilities of the present-and a future that just might include a new happily ever after.
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