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Good Joy, Bad Joy

Mikki Brammer · Literary Fiction

43 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

coming of agesmall townfound familytrauma recovery
coming of agesmall townfound family
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#259 All Time

About this book

She's lived by the rules. Now she's breaking them . . . For more than eighty years, Joy Bridport has followed the rules - devoted wife, loving mother, steadfast neighbor in her small town. But when her best friend Hazel is given only months to live, Joy is forced to confront the truth- Hazel has lived fully, while she has only played it safe. Determined to change, Joy vows to live boldly in the time she and Hazel have left together. What begins as small rebellions soon snowballs into petty crimes, and Joy must decide whether she can embrace the freedom of 'Bad Joy' without losing the life and legacy she's built. With humor, heart, and irresistible mischief, Good Joy, Bad Joy is a wise, bighearted celebration of friendship, second chances, and the courage to become who we were always meant to be. 'With compassion and insight, Good Joy, Bad Joy shines a light on the quiet invisibility that settles over women as they age, then sweeps it aside with humour and heart. This deeply human novel

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