Kicking The Bucket List, Cathy Hopkins

Meet the daughters of Iris Parker. Dee; sensitive and big-hearted; Rose uptight and controlled and Fleur the reckless free spirit.
At the reading of their mother’s will, the three estranged women are aghast to discover that their inheritance comes with strings attached. If they are to inherit her wealth, they must spend a series of weekends together over the course of a year and carry out their mother’s ‘bucket list’.

But one year doesn’t seem like nearly enough time for them to move past the decades-old layers of squabbles and misunderstandings. Can they grow up for once and see that Iris’ bucket list was about so much more than money…


I read this book in one sitting as I thoroughly enjoyed it and found several themes throughout to be easily relatable. I liked all three of the sisters and found each one to be developed extensively and I also really enjoyed each sister’s story and how the three stories interlinked at key points during the novel. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys family drama. It would be a fantastic holiday read as it is good to devour in one long read!

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