People Person - Candice Carty-Williams

 

Description

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming.

People Person is a triumph. Caleb Azumah Nelson

Wonderful. Marian Keyes

I loved it. Sara Collins

It's as warm and infectious, as familiar and true as Queenie. Diana Evans

IF YOU COULD CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY...

YOU WOULDN'T CHOOSE THE PENNINGTONS.

Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad's gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues.

Dimple has bigger things to think about. She's thirty, and her life isn't really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple's life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. And despite a small but loyal following, she's never felt more alone.

That is, until a catastrophic event brings her half siblings Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie and Prynce crashing back into her life. And when they're all forced to reconnect with Cyril Pennington, the absent father they never really knew, things get even more complicated.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of QUEENIE comes a propulsive story of heart, humour, homecoming, and about the truest meaning of family you can get when your dad loves his jeep more than he loves his children.

Review

I wanted to read this book based solely on loving her first book "Queenie". I wasn't really sure what this book was going to be about, and I was in for such a surprise.

Dimple Pennington meets her half siblings once, many years ago along with the reader. Then we are in  fast forward to the present day and she meets them all again in very different circumstances. It was at this point I was totally hooked into the book. I wasn't prepared for being so invested in all of the characters, but I was and I feel like I'm going to miss them now it's all over.

The writing is once again just brilliant and the words flew off the page and fired up my visual imagination. I was so caught up in the plot that I told other people about it as I read it,  who then also wanted to know what happened. 

The biggest character has to be Cyril the father of the siblings with four different women. I loved getting to know more about each of the Mothers and how they had come to know Cyril. Such wonderful character writing throughout the book kept me engaged. My favourite character was Nikisha. A strong female lead who I championed as I read.

So, what was this book about? Lives, loves, prejudices and a crime! I'll be first in line for the next book Candice writes.

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars. My thanks to netgalley for the ARC to review.