If you spend your life dwelling on the worst possible thing, when it finally happens, you’ve lived it twice. So why bother? Obsessing over the end is pointless. Especially because there’s nothing you can do about it. But for the most part, you’d just enjoy the time you had left. And you’d find yourself looking at the sky throughout the day, knowing what’s coming because that’s just human nature. And you’d be scared because you’re gonna die. That’s not what anyone wants to do with their final hours. “You know how when you ask someone what they’d do if the sun was headed for Earth and they had twenty-four hours left to live? And everyone always says they’d be with family, eat their favorite food, go someplace they’ve always wanted to go? Nobody ever says they’d spend the last day curled up in bed crying- because they wouldn’t. When her younger sister gives birth but cannot look after the baby due to her addiction, Vanessa steps in to care for her and moves in next door to Adrian She spends her life travelling the world and raising money for ALS research. She’s quit her job and started a YouTube channel as a travel blogger, not expecting to get so much support and become a celebrity in her own right.

Vanessa has lost a number of family members to ALS, due to this she has decided that she’s not going to let the possibility of her life being shortened stop her from living the life she wants. It also touches on bereavement, substance abuse and unwanted pregnancy. ALS is a major theme running through the book. Do you remember the ice bucket challenge from 2014? Do you remember why everyone was pouring buckets of freezing cold water over their heads? Amyotrophic Latral Sclerosis, more commonly known as ALS or Motor Neurone Disease (Lou Gehrig disease in the United States). What really makes my heart sing about reading a romantic comedy like this is that it’s not all sunshine and flowers, it discusses some really serious issues. You’re not emotionally strong enough for that.” “It’ll walk around pushing your drinks off the coffee table.

This is a couple who shouldn’t work together but throw in a baby and a dog and it just works! She is busy living her best life and he’s busy working. There were other books I’d intended to read first but then someone else was waiting for this so I bumped it up to the front of the queue. I don’t think I have ever binge read a book so fast as I did with this, I couldn’t put it down! I haven’t read a huge number of romance in recent years, I downloaded this on a whim one night when I was maxing ot my library cards.

Money can’t make you happy unless you know what you want,” You live your life like there’ll always be one day to do all the things you put off. Because the only thing worse than falling for Adrian is finding a little hope for a future she may never see. Now she's feeling things she's vowed not to feel. No one warned her that he was the Secret Baby Tamer or that she'd be spending a whole lot of time with him and his geriatric Chihuahua. The last person Vanessa expects to show up offering help is the hot lawyer next door, Adrian Copeland. Her mother and sister never saw the age of 30, and Vanessa doesn't want to take anything for granted.īut after her half-sister suddenly leaves Vanessa in custody of her baby daughter, life goes from 'daily adventure' to 'hourly nappy change'.

For her, living each day to its fullest isn't just a motto. When Vanessa Price quit her job to pursue her dream of traveling the globe, she wasn't expecting to gain millions of YouTube followers who shared her joy of seizing every moment. If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. Narrator: Christine Lakin, Zachary Webber Published by Hachette UK on April 20, 2021

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