Böcker av Kate Brook

An irresistable, funny, sharply observed debut novel in which two roommates, and two sisters, will learn that sometimes family-and love-find you in the most unexpected places.Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as roommates. They've also just slept together, and are left wondering whether they've just made the most enormous mistake, or the complete opposite. But either way they're determined to keep living together without making it awkward, since neither one can afford to move out of the apartment.Then Hazel's sister Emily and her wife Afra arrive for a visit, and Hazel and Alfie's feelings about each other are pushed to the side in the whirlwind of Emily and Afra's excitement to start a new life in a new town, and also find the perfect sperm donor who might help them bring a baby into their family.As Hazel, Alfie, Emily, and Afra's lives collide, all four will learn that sometimes you find family - and love - in the most unexpected of places, in this warm, perceptive, uplifting read.

Flatmates, friends or family? It's complicated...Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as flatmates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake, or the best decision of their lives. Before they can decide, Hazel's sister Emily and her wife Daria arrive for a visit, setting in motion a chain of events that will turn everything upside down. What follows will bind the four of them together, bringing joy and heartache, hope and anxiety, and reshaping their relationships in ways that none of them quite predicted.Warm, witty, and devastatingly relatable, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is a painfully true-to-life story about family, friends, and everything in between.