Lila wrote a bestselling book about keeping your marriage alive, before disemering her ex was playing happy families with another woman. A woman she sees every day at school pick-up. Bill, her stepdad. mused in alter Lila's mum died. IIe's kind. old-fashioned and driving her absolutely nuts. Celle, Lila's eldest, hales school. Bates it so much she's stopped going. lier mother's line with that - because she doesn't know yet.Violet is nine and fond of age-inappropriate rap songs. laughs re a at fart jokes and Lila dearly hopes she'll never, ever change. And Truant the dog has just bitten the American actor who's suddenly landed on the Kennedys' doorstep. This is Gene - Lila's estranged father, and no one's idea of a role model. Ile walked out on Lila and her mum scars ago - and wherever he goes domestic discord follows.But Gene's presence changes things in unexpected ways. Soon the girls discover a kindred spirit in a man always chasing life's Joy. Bill even loosens up. And Lila finds herself astonishingly, dating. Something is happening to the Kennedy household - but what la -" - And will it break, or save, their family ?