This isn't a story about Badgers or Biscuits or Tins despite the title, it's a story about a family- the Garretts. Rachel and her brother Thomas grew up as child geniuses with strict parents who expected a lot. They grew to achieve top grades and successful careers- but not everything in life has one simple answer. Thomas struggles with money while his husband Lian is unable to work. Rachel tries to navigate life as a single parent after her fiancé Paul deserts her while she is pregnant with twins. But what happens when eleven-year-old Jessica and Joshua Garrett's father returns, finally wanting a part in their lives that they've never known? This book discusses some things that I have little experience with and therefore this is not a place to learn factual information about certain types of people, I'm trying to educate myself with all topics this story covers but would be highly interested in sensitivity readers/advice givers who are gay/bi men, or have dyslexia, anxiety or a chronic illness/disability, as these are things that some of the characters in this story experience, whether outright explained or just in backstory not featured but explaining their life experiences. I am always trying to improve and I don't want to shy away from everything I don't personally experience because there is diversity in the world that I want to feature, but with that will probably come mistakes but I'd love for the opportunity to do better and make my characters as real as they can be.
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