Campari for Breakfast
(Author) Sara Crowe'Reads like a cross between I Capture the Castle and Love, Nina, with a pinch of Adrian Mole' The Bookseller âe~We defy you not to love Sueâe(tm) Good Housekeeping 'Campari for Breakfast is truly, charmingly splendid' Lucy Robinson Life is full of terrible things. Ghosts of dead relatives, heartbreak . . . burnt toast. In 1987, Sue Bowl's world changes for ever. Her mother dies, leaving her feeling like sheâe(tm)s lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with an awful man-eater called Ivana. But Sueâe(tm)s mother always told her to make the most of what sheâe(tm)s got âe" and what sheâe(tm)s got is a love of writing and some eccentric relatives. So Sue moves to her Aunt Coralâe(tm)s crumbling ancestral home, where she fully intends to write a book and fall in love . . . and perhaps drink Campari for breakfast Campari for Breakfast is a heart-warming, eccentric novel that joins the ranks of great British coming-of-age novels such as Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle and Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.