We All Live Here
A Novel
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4.2 • 697 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose books so many love, brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family
“Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does.” —Jodi Picoult
Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A woman who pens relationship advice could sure use some herself in this smart, down-to-earth comedy-drama from superstar novelist Jojo Moyes. Author Lila Kennedy’s new book about keeping your marriage together was published two weeks after her husband left her. Lila is already stressed as she raises two daughters—a moody teen and a rambunctious eight-year-old—and tolerates her fussy widowed stepfather. As she struggles as a single parent, she gets an unexpected visit from her biological father, whose career as a TV actor has fallen into a slump and who needs a place to crash while pretending he’s still hip and successful. Moyes finds plenty of humor in this awkward family’s misadventures without shortchanging their feelings, and the result is clever, funny, and full of heart. Anybody who’s had to start over in life will laugh and cry along.
Customer Reviews
We all live here
I enjoyed this book, all the main characters I found very interesting and my opinion of each evolved as I read the book. Great story of meeting life’s past and present challenges while trying to keep true to yourself even when you don’t know exactly what that may be.
Smart, Witty, and Relatable
Jojo Moyes creates characters that are relatable, flawed, nuanced and, ultimately, beloved … I hated to say goodbye to them at the end. I’d quite like to ‘live here’ too.
Cute But Dragged
I enjoyed the characters and initial plot line or this story, but then I felt it started dragging and I was bored. Took me awhile to finish