From Amazon -
"Olivia Hunt is unemployed, living alone, and working on the fourth draft of her suicide note when she gets a phone call that lets her know what real trouble is. Madeleine Hunt is her younger sister, the annoyingly happy one who married her childhood sweetheart while Olivia set out to conquer Hollywood. And Maddie is in trouble. Pulled home for the first time in years, Olivia gets a painful dose of real life as she tries to help her sister, keep her parents from running off the rails, and reconnect with the boyfriend who left without a word but might still be the love of her life. And, of course, the movie she's been trying to put in front of a camera for years heats up just as she leaves town. Racing between Hollywood, hospital rooms, and film sets in Spain, Olivia has to do the impossible at work and at home - and learns that love will let her do no less."

Sent to katybean as a RABCK.

Many thanks for this *huge* book!!!! I love surprises!!

I also love the sticker you used in the book, please could you let me know where I could find them to use?

Once again thanks, and I'll journal again when I've read

Katybean - just off to cross this off my wishlist :o)

I finally got round to reading this book!!!!

Well, surprisingly I managed not to cry until the very last letter!! I thought it might have been a hard book to read, but I guess as I don't have a sister it made it slightly easier! I enjoyed the way it was written via letters, but would loved to have seen some 'incoming' letters too, although they were cleverly written!!

I wonder if John Cleese and Robin Williams know they are in a book :o)

I read this book in Majorca so it's done a bit of extra travelling - thankfully I read the last letter in the privacy of my appartment - not around the pool!!

Thanks once again raeliz64 for this lovely RABCK.

The book is now going to travel to Rillaith, as she 'won' it on a bookswap (double crossed) on the BCUK extra site!

Katybean

Arrived today, safe and sound - thank you :)

I took this book with me on a business trip to St Petersburg, as I thought it would be a fairly quick read! Between working 14 hour days and sleeping the rest, it's lasted nearly the whole week - which means the other 4 BC books I have with me are going to come back home with me too. Darn!

This is an unusual book, in that everything in narrated via the medium of letters written solely by one person. Although the very first letter is written as a child, this is no children's book, but is an odd blend of chick lit and the pathos of having a sister with life-threatening leukemia. At times very touching, sometimes funny. I'm not sure I can say I entirely "enjoyed" reading it, but I'm glad I have.

Hopefully I can find somewhere to leave this in St P. where a lovely local will find it and it won't get tidied away, snowed on, or chucked out. This is a stunning city, and so far, all the Russians I have met have been ever so nice! :)

RELEASE NOTES:

I've looked for an existing crossing zone, in the hope that this book will be found and not get lost, but also one that I know where it is.

Having spent the week since Friday here in St Petersburg on business (I was helping behind the scenes with the Laureus World Sports Awards), today I am spending out and about with a camera. This city is tremendous, and I mean that literally - not only are the people ever so friendly (especially when you have a Russian speaker with you, even when that's only a little Russian), but the city is built on an enormous scale. Every building is at least 3 stories high, the blocks are surprisingly long, and the roads are incredibly wide. Seriously - this city dwarfs most places I've seen in the States, maybe not in height or crampedness, but the sheer scale and space involved. There are stunning examples of architecture everywhere you look - from the famous Church on the Spilt Blood and Winter Palace/Hermitage, to details on buildings which are not mentioned in any tourist guide or visitor's book. Baroque gold-leafed swirls of ivy climbing up a 10 foot door on the old bank, intricate carvings well above eye-level on the most otherwise anonymous of buildings. I'm so glad I have had the chance to visit Russia, and made sure that I would have time after work finished to see the city before I go home.

I will leave this book, with love, just inside the doorway of the Chaika Restaurant, which is a little Germanic-looking restaurant, whose entrance is down a few steps. I hope someone finds this book who will enjoy it, and release it again into the wild for it to continue it's already-substantial journey. (England - Spain - England - Russia - where next?)