In the book we follow Lexi and her daughter Beth. I found it interesting to see how friend dynamics change to both women. Lexi is older and understands where as Beth's is 15 in love and in trouble. Neither women want money to go before friends yet both women have major challenges. I wonder if you looked around at people you know, or people from the past who you have an inkling might have behaved the same way as some of the characters in the book? If you are a fan of thrillers and drama, you will definitely enjoy this book. It will keep you on the edge until the very last chapter. And that last chapter will change everything! Let me know once you’ve read it, because I am dying to talk to someone about that last revelation! How do you manage it? … Caring so much for people you don’t even know? In my experience, it’s cruel enough caring for those you do.

Not only do we meet different characters in this book, but we also meet different personalities, with different motivations, dreams and life goals. When Lexi and Jake realised they have won the lottery, they both behave in a very different way. Wiseman, Andreas (16 November 2020). " 'The Princess Switch: Switched Again' Producers Ink Deal With UK Novelist Adele Parks For Movie Adaptations". Deadline . Retrieved 23 November 2021. Krevroy and Riach are behind a number of successful Netflix shows including The Princess Switch (and this year’s sequel, Switched Again) starring Vanessa Hudgens and Sam Palladio. They are currently producing A Castle For Christmas, starring Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes, for the streaming giant. Apart from this, I did actually enjoy the book and the twists and turns of the plot. A good book for a holiday read . For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake have played the same six numbers with their friends, the Pearsons and the Heathcotes. Over dinner parties, fish & chip suppers and summer barbecues, they've discussed the important stuff - the kids, marriages, jobs and houses - and they've laughed off their disappointment when they failed to win anything more than a tenner.I have a read a couple of books that revolve around what money does to people and how it shapes them, so this sounds like a wonderful and well told story! I love that the tension arises over the winning of the money and that slow divergences come to light.

For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake have played the same six numbers with their friends. Over drinks, dinner parties and summer barbecues, the three couples have discussed the important stuff—kids, marriages, careers—and they’ve laughed off their disappointment when they failed to win anything. We are thrilled to be working with Adele and MPCA to adapt these psychological domestic thrillers,” said Riach. “These contemporary stories are everyone’s worst nightmare, set in homes we all know, showing the darkest choices people make. Audiences will be left terrified and breathless in equal measures.”During her career Adele has lived in Italy, Botswana and London. Now she lives happily in Surrey, UK with her husband, son and cat. I felt that the character of Jake was very unlikeable and this made me wonder why Lexi hadn’t spotted all his awful traits before the lottery win. ( a bit unbelievable.) I also thought Emily’s chapters weren’t really written in fifteen year old’s language. (Very adult concepts in places.) Jake, on the other side, wants to enjoy the money they won, and spend it on a new house, new car, be part of the upper class and hire driver services for his children, when they move to a private school. In 1999, when Melanie Harrison, the heroine of this underwhelming psychological thriller from British author Parks (Playing Away), dropped out of university after becoming pregnant after a Continue reading »

I always like lottery stories, but the dark and the light side of winning a lottery. I think it’s something we all think about… a windfall. And I like a “slow reveal of secrets”. This book sounds intriguing. I was going to do the lottery this weekend but I’m not sure I will now lol!! I can still dream though.I just love Adele Parks from the first book of hers I read years ago I am yet to find one I don't love. I do play the lottery occasionally but after reading this book I will not be participating in a lottery pool!🙈 For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake have played the same six numbers with their friends, the Pearsons and the Heathcotes. Over dinner parties, fish & chip suppers and summer barbecues, they’ve discussed the important stuff – the kids, marriages, jobs and houses – and they’ve laughed off their disappointment when they failed to win anything more than a tenner. This is an interesting domestic drama about the trials and tribulations of winning the lottery. Three couples have been friends since meeting in a class fifteen years before when the wives were pregnant with their firstborn children. They start a tradition of having dinner together every Saturday night and playing the lottery as a group. Something happens within the group and when Lexi and Jake win the lottery, they claim the other couples had pulled out of the group a couple of weeks prior. As the new winners struggle with everything that such a windfall means to their family and to everything around them, lies and secrets come to light.

A very thought provoking book about a large Lottery win. Made me wonder how I’d react to such a win. I found the first few chapters made me feel uncomfortable especially the rejection of the other syndicate members and what happened to Emily at school. And thus begins not only the unraveling of years long friendships, but secrets, deceits, lies and hidden agendas which had been hidden for many years. As the group breaks apart, their children who have been friends since birth must decide whose side they are taking. And some of them decide to take their jealousy a bit too far.

Their win will split their friendship, when they expect a share of the winnings, when it appears they are not getting g a single penny,they are not giving in lightly even if it means hiring lawyers. Adele Parks MBE is an English women's fiction author. She has written 21 novels in her 21-year career as an author and is one of the bestselling authors of women's fiction in the United Kingdom. Thank goodness I had a glass of bourbon in hand, and a buddy to read this book with! Kaceey - I wouldn’t haven’t gotten through this one without you! Stupendous!...I couldn’t put it down. As ever, Adele Parks does not disappoint - you’ll love it."- Ruth Jones