Number 17 in my Saltbury Chronicles series is now out on Kindle and there’s trouble in Tina and Carol’s little family.  We finally meet their daughter Millie properly.  It’s the start of the long school summer holidays and eleven year old Millie, is bored, bored, bored.  Her best friend Nidhi is almost as bad, but it seems to have become uncool for either to show an active interest in anything.  All they want to do is sit in their bedrooms, playing with their phones and worrying ex-athlete Carol by refusing to take any exercise.

But Millie’s become a particular concern.  Her two mums are used to her pre-teen angst and rebellion.  It’s just part of being a parent.  But she’s now outright aggressive, especially towards Carol.  She even refuses to be bridesmaid to one of Tina’s closest friends, because it’s a lesbian wedding and she thinks lesbians are evil and wishes her two mums were a mum and dad.  Why this sudden hostility?  She’s never shown any before.

But all is not what it seems, and our favourite redheaded lawyer soon finds herself dealing with a very dark situation that’s put another girl’s very life in danger.  And much to her wife’s disapproval, Tina finds herself acting for her daughter’s worst enemy the girl who’s been bullying her at school.

Meanwhile, Carol has become a sports TV star.  Miss Bryony is still bossing her bosses about and refusing to retire.  We see more of Katie, Jenny, Sofie and Tara.  Amber may have a new love.  Annie and Hazel are sweet but, of course, Yvonne is as grumpy as ever.  With added steam trains and rowing boats, it will be a summer they never forget.