Freckles: The gripping and emotional Sunday Times top ten bestseller from million-copy bestselling author Cecelia Ahern: The uplifting and emotional ... million-copy bestselling author Cecelia Ahern

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I like the fact that he has also written a protagonist who isn’t always likeable. Allegra is often awkward and frustrating at times, but there’s something about her that’s so lost, that you can’t help but find her endearing. I felt myself wanting to befriend her, to guide her to the right people, rather than watch her make some questionable choices. Q: Our magazine’s main audience and submissions comes from young aspiring writers. What advice would you give to those that are finding this change restrictive to their writing?

Whether what happens would have happened anyway we don’t know, but Allegra is confronted by the idea that she really doesn’t have ‘five people’ so decides to find inspirational people to connect with (and rub off on her obvs). A: I don’t listen to music while writing but there are certain albums and songs that I have listened to before and after writing, or while taking writing breaks. Specifically I remember listening to Paulo Nutini’s Iron Sky and Beyonce’s Lemonade a lot while writing Flawed and Perfect and I remember that more than anything else because they were YA novels and I was constantly asked about music for all of those interviews. If I reference a song in a novel then I must listen to it to invoke the atmosphere of the particular scene. In a Nutshell: This was a very nice read, better than I had expected. Kinda slow, but with memorable lead characters.

year Allegra was bought up by her father. Apparently, her mother didn't want her at all and other than when Allegra was at boarding school, it's been her and pops forever.

As she searches for connection, Allegra is about to find out that it is our differences that make life worth living - if only someone can help you to join the dots . . . There were moments in this that were hard to read due to a myriad of reasons from Allegra's experience of self harm when she was younger, to even the awkward and second hand embarrassment a reader could feel when she was committing a social faux pas. I loved Allegra's job as a still life model, and this control over her body, and the way she was able to see parts of herself in others work was just so interesting to read. As one can imagine, it doesn’t necessarily go as planned and letters to the likes of Amal Clooney and an Irish Olympian disappear into the ether. It's Allegra's relationship with the owner of the yellow car (Rooster) that shape her decisions. Rooster - also known as Tristan is a youtube gaming star and he tells Allegra 'you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' This turns Allegras life upside down and she begins to question her life and the people that she shares it with.There is a small group of support characters. Some are great, some are less so, but they all add up to making Allegra who she is whether she likes it or not. In a quest to find the one thing she’s missing she begins a bold new life in Dublin. But she’s left a lot behind. I'm always up for reading a book by Cecelia Ahern, she always brings the unexpected with her women's fiction and contemporary tales. This one however, didn't hit the spot for me although the format of audio was pretty great and kept me going. That is when her journey really begins. And in true Allegra Bird style, the road is pretty turbulent along the way. When a stranger sets her mind running with the sentence “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”, this begins a journey for Allegra to find out who in her life makes her who she is.

I was iffy about Tristan developing a close relationship with Allegra at first, considering how he had acted towards her but I actually grew to really like their friendship and how we leaned more about Tristan, his 'Rooster' identity and how he was striving to be more, and how Allegra helped him do this.

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Cecelia was nominated for Best Newcomer 2004/5 at the British Book Awards for her debut novel PS, I Love You. She won the 2005 Irish Post Award for Literature and a 2005 Corine Literature Prize for her second book Where Rainbows End, (Für immer vielleicht) which was voted for by German readers. In 2006, she was long-listed for the IMPAC award for PS I Love You. Cosmopolitan US honoured her with a Fun Fearless Fiction Award 2007 for If You Could See Me Now. Irish Tatler awarded her Writer of the Year at the Woman of the Year awards in 2009. Cecelia's fifth novel Thanks for the Memories was nominated for Most Popular Book in the British Book Awards 2008. Cecelia was voted Author of Year in the UK Glamour Women of the Year Awards in 2008. Allegra Bird moves away from her small town to the big smoke with a dream job and a huge secret mission that would change her life forever, if only she had the courage to follow it through. Cecilia Ahern is truly a gifted writer, who would have thought a beautiful book such as this could have been woven from a business driven motivational quote. This was my first book by Cecelia Ahern, but based on this book it will definitely be the first of many. I thoroughly enjoyed the storytelling in this book, which was very well structured with some great characters and great scenes. My heart went out to Allegra and at times I felt very sorry for her, which when I was not reading made me think of how different people go through life and the struggles we all undertake to find out where we belong.

All Allegra has ever wanted was to join the Garda, but when that falls through, she moves to Dublin to work as a traffic warden and look for her mother. Das Buch fing vielversprechend an. Allegra ist ein schwieriger Charakter, der Verletzungen mit sich herumträgt, sich vor allen Dingen im zwischenmenschlichen Bereich schwertut und auch sonst eher in den Kategorien bissig, stachelig bis unausstehlich einzuordnen ist. Gelukkig heb ik daar verandering in gebracht. Ik heb er verandering in gebracht toen ik 'De som van jou en mij' oppakte. De cover van dit boek is prachtig. Het schreeuwt: lente! I can honestly say listening to the audio version of this book left me in such a better mood. Cecelia Ahern has a great way of writing romance, with a huge slice of humour. It's one of those books that you enjoy every second of and find yourself smiling your way through, with some real laugh out loud moments too.

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Met het schaamrood op mijn wangen moet ik bekennen dat de boeken van Cecelia Ahern, tot een week geleden, een compleet mysterie voor mij waren. De schoonheid van haar verhalen, was voor mij onbekend. En daar heb ik spijt van. Spijt dat ik niet eerder een boek van Cecelia opgepakt heb.