Muddling Through
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Last published Sat, Nov 2, 2013
Meet the Cooper family: there's the Queen band member wannabe (and eldest brother), Haiden, the elder sister, Vivi, obsessed with nothing other than boys and piercings, the attention-seeking four year old, Finn and the cat named Snape. Caught up in the middle of it all is 'Kenzie, trying to make sense of her mad family and why she exists.Convinced she is the only normal one, Kenzie struggles to realise that each member of her family is trying their hardest to cope. To muddle through. When their parents reach breaking point and are bordering on divorce, they send the Cooper siblings to a distant relative in the Lancashire countryside, where their accommodation proves most eerie and rather intruiging indeed, leaving Haiden, Vivi, Finn and Kenzie to reflect on life after their youngest brother's passing, the 'other half', to Finn, the twin he never got to meet. And as secrets unravel themselves in the little Lancashire village they are staying in, the four find themselves struggling to keep muddling through. A great story if you like stories about life's ups and downs, capturing the personalites of the world's colourful and interesting people along the way.
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