Inheriting Jack

Julia finally has her life just the way she wants it: great friends, her own house, a car that goes (mostly) and a promotion on the horizon. As soon as her perfect man comes along the equation will be complete. Then the phone rings. Her best friend Anita is dead and everything changes. Three days later Julia has inherited an eighteen-month-old toddler called Jack. Struggling with grief at the loss of Anita, Julia's first faltering days with her friend's son seem doomed: he'd rather spend his time with a brown plastic toad called Harold and eats nothing but fairy bread. Her life quickly unravels as she attempts to manage Jack, an obsessive client and a brother who sees himself as the next celebrity chef. But after an embarrassing incident at the gym and a run-in with an ice-cream truck, things start to improve in surprising ways. Julia begins to wonder whether Jack's arrival was not the end of the world, but an unexpected and priceless gift... Julia finally has her life just the way she wants it: great friends, a new house, a car that goes (mostly), a job she loves and a promotion on the horizon. All she needs now is to find Mr Right, and the equation will be complete. Then the phone rings in the middle of the night. Three days later Julia is in possession of an eighteen-month-old toddler called Jack and a life in tatters. Struggling with her grief at the loss of her best friend, Julia's first faltering days with her new charge seem doomed: he'd rather spend his time with a brown plastic frog called Harold and will eat nothing but fairy bread. But after an embarrassing incident at the gym and a run-in with an ice-cream truck, things start to improve in surprising ways. Julia begins to wonder whether Jack's arrival was not the end of the world as she knew it, but an unexpected and priceless gift..