Aurora is really on a mission to find her mother, who, she has discovered lives and works in the area. This was spat at Allegra in rage when she issues a parking ticket and little does the antagonist know the impact his words will have. So when a stranger tells her she’s the sum of five people – the five people she spends the most time with – she’s suddenly no longer seeking one person. Sehr schade, normalerweise lese ich Cecelia Ahern's Bücher sehr gerne, aber dieses hier fand ich vergleichsweise eher schwach.

The pandemic has put an end to her boxing but on her long daily walks, Ahern plays movies and plots in her head, ones she has written herself. Allegra Bird aka Freckles dreams of being a police officer, but when she doesn’t get in, she becomes a traffic warden. I wasn’t sure about this book to begin with and the main character Aurora, or Freckles as she was known at school, seemed a bit strange. I see many readers loved this book, but unfortunately, I wasn’t one of them, don’t let my review put you off from reading this book.After a huge argument they strike up a sort of friendship which starts as a result of him telling her that she is the average of the five people she spends the most time with. She thinks back to those first few anxious weeks, the uncertainty, “the worry about people you love getting sick”. Knowing he was dying, Gerry secretly wrote a series of letters to his wife, to be opened after he died.

They have three children: a daughter born in December 2009, [3] a son born in July 2012 [4] [5] and another daughter born in October 2019. Freckles is highly descriptive, its not the traditional love story that Ahern is known for, however Freckles is heart warming, funny and really poignant. It was adapted as a motion picture titled Love, Rosie which was released in 2014, directed by Christian Ditter and starring Lily Collins and Sam Claflin.Cecelia Ahern with her parents, Bertie Ahern and Miriam Ahern, at a party to celebrate worldwide sales of 10 million of her books, in 2008. Before starting her writing and producing career, she obtained a degree in journalism and media communications from Griffith College Dublin, but withdrew from a master's degree course to pursue her writing career. I was proud of a lot of it, but I could see how my writing and my character development has improved over the years.