A Patchwork Family (by Cathy Bramley)

I’ve liked the books I’ve read so far by Cathy Bramley, so I put a couple more on my wishlist towards the end of last year and was very pleased to be given ‘A Patchwork Family’ for my birthday a few months ago. The cover is appealing, and the novel is quite big - as with others by this author, it’s in four parts, which are available separately for the Kindle. This volume, however, contains them all. 

The narrator of the story is a young woman called Gina who works as a childminder. She’s evident...