Favourite Daughter
A brilliantly funny and tender debut novel about two strangers with only one thing in common, their father
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4.5 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'Fans of Coco Mellors will enjoy this chaotically funny novel' RED
'A refreshingly real exploration of family, addiction and love. This should be your next read' DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95
'Darkly funny and irreverent' ELLE
'I absolutely loved this!' PRIMA, BOOK OF THE MONTH
'Hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly original' DAILY MAIL
'A refreshing family drama' THE SUN
'Funny, sweet and profoundly compassionate' MARIAN KEYES
'So stunningly fresh and darkly funny' CATHERINE NEWMAN
'Rich, complex and astute' REBECCA K REILLY
'A vast and ambitious novel . . . that will take your breath away' KIRSTY CAPES
THESE TWO STRANGERS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON . . . THEIR FATHER.
'He left you some money.'
Mickey felt her mouth drop open. The first half of that sentence had rung clear and true. The second half had not. Her father was one to take, not give.
After he left them for his new family, Mickey resolved never to think of her father again. She's fine without him; yes, she drinks, but only sometimes and, really, she can’t not.
But with only $181 to her name, she’s not above attending some mandated therapy to access her inheritance. She’ll kneel at the Kleenex alter and soon be bingeing Bridgerton with a bottle of Russian Standard, five million dollars richer.
Arlo has more issues than most of her clients. Being a therapist has not prepared her for grief. She adored her father – his laughter, his charm, the smell of his cologne. She thought he adored her, too, but now he’s given his inheritance to a daughter no one knows, and Arlo is at a loss.
Two sisters are unknowingly thrown together for the first time.
It’s crazy, it's unethical.
It's perfect.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The loss of a parent is profoundly life-altering. But what if you discovered your father, whom you adored and selflessly cared for, had left all his money to a half-sister you’ve never met? That’s the arresting premise of this dazzling debut by Canadian author Morgan Dick. Arlo is a therapist who is stunned and betrayed when she discovers she’s been cut out of her dad’s will. Mickey and her mum were abandoned by him when she was a young child. When Mickey discovers she’s inherited millions, there’s a catch: She has to have therapy with Arlo, although neither knows who the other is. Favourite Daughter is fresh, darkly funny and brimful of sensitive insight about grief, addiction, family dysfunction—and, ultimately, redemption. It will grab your attention from the start and leave you thinking about it long after you’ve finished.
