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Please help me find this book, it's really annoying me.

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BeatrixPottersAlterEgo · 25/04/2020 23:06

Not the biggest issue in the wider scheme of things, but it's driving me mad that I can't remember the name!

I read it a few years ago on my old kindle, which then died. I now have a new kindle, but not all of the books crossed over,and I'd really like to read it again! I'm pretty sure it was one of the daily deals/99p types which surprised me by being really enjoyable, so it may not even exist in hardcopy.

It was about a cleaner, who had some sort of foreign heritage (Greek perhaps?) and was called something like Elena or Evie. She has kids with a lazy twat of a man. One of her kids gets a scholarship to a naice private school and it's all about how she copes with that/dumps the twat/gets together with her kid's new fit History teacher.

It was just good fun, and really cheered me up at a time in my life when I was feeling quite down. CakeFlowers for anyone who knows what book I'm talking about!

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SillyCow6 · 25/04/2020 23:08

Would it be in your purchase history on your amazon account?

wildthingsinthenight · 25/04/2020 23:08

Marking my place as that sounds good! Hope someone can help Smile

BeatrixPottersAlterEgo · 25/04/2020 23:09

It isn't on my purchase history sadly, at one point I was using two amazon accounts and deleted one, and I think I'd ordered it through the deleted account, if that makes sense. So it couldn't cross over to my new kindle!

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SillyCow6 · 25/04/2020 23:32

Can you remember any other details at all? The name of the private school or the teacher?

StopChelping · 26/04/2020 00:05

The School Gate Survival Guide by Kerry Fisher?

wildthingsinthenight · 26/04/2020 00:10

The Not So Perfect Mum by Kerry Fisher?

MairzyDoats · 26/04/2020 00:13

It sounds like a film - Spanglish?

sundodger · 26/04/2020 00:23

Is it Jojo Moyes One Plus One

BeatrixPottersAlterEgo · 26/04/2020 08:32

Oh hang on, The School Gate Survival Guide sounds familiar, I'll go and check

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BeatrixPottersAlterEgo · 26/04/2020 08:35

YES! THAT'S IT! And her name is Maia, not Elena! Thank you so much, it'll be my Kindle and a cider in the garden for me later (and I thoroughly recommend the book, I read everything from highbrow to trash, and this was such satisfying fun

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BeatrixPottersAlterEgo · 26/04/2020 08:37

And yes the title has been changed - probably why I couldn't find/remember it

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SillyCow6 · 26/04/2020 10:23

So pleased you found it! Might give that one a read myself!

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