Review: Creating aForever Kind of Family
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2013
Victoria O'Shea is a former natural habitat videographer who has settled in a small town outside of London to raise her daughter Sophie.  Victoria is a single parent and her daughter and her work provide a busy life. Victoria has a most unusual vocation. She rescues and cares for injured and sick hedgehogs.  Not your "average" job. Adam Cantrell is also a single parent and is as devoted to his son Harry as Victoria is to Sophie. Adam is a wealthy, talented builder of high end homes. While Victoria lives in a small cottage in the small village, Adam and his son travel the world going from one busy development project to another.  When Adam buys Larchfield Hall, the property next door to Victoria's cottage, the last thing he expects is that Victoria has been using the beautiful grounds as a hedgehog release site. What could have been a disastrous standoff brings together two seemingly different people who have much more in common that their circumstances imply. This is a sweet, romantic story about two loving people devoted to their children and to their vocations but who know from the minute they meet that something has been missing in their lives. The author cleverly uses the "challenge" of the hedgehogs to show how Victoria and Adam overcome their differences and build on the values they share. And in the process create A Family Forever.