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Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Holly Darling has spent her life living in the shadow of the famous story about her family - yes THAT story. The one about her grandmother, Wendy and her great-uncles John and Michael and Neverland.

After her husband and one of her twin sons is killed in a car accident, she takes the surviving son and moves to New York to use her new skin care product business to hid her research to find a way to help her son stay healthy and get away from being a Darling.

Then one day a call from England brings her past crashing back into her life and she finds herself returning home to face the secrets she's run from - and the prime secret is the one her family is famous for - Peter Pan.

He's real and the only one she can talk to about him and what is happening is her mother Jane, who believes that Peter is the hero of the stories, even though Holly knows otherwise.

++++

I found this book completely engrossing. I spent the entire day listening to the book. I am glad I did it as an audiobook so that I was able to still be productive while listening to find out what happens next.

I loved this modernizing tale of the classic that shows Peter to be the villain that I have always thought he was - even as a little kid I thought he was the bad guy in the Disney movie.

I cannot recommend this book enough.

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