Just like the blurb says, this is a charming story of a woman who discovers that things are what you decide then to he. With a little help from an unlikely source (with a dash of magic), Maisie gets to have her family together. For those who’ve read the book, you know what I mean. :)

Working in an auction house seems so interesting and the auction house is full of unique characters. Arthur, Elle, Johnny, Irene... Can’t picture Theo in my head. Help pls? I kept changing his appearance...

And the crosses signals between Maisie and Theo, I wanted to knock their heads together.

Overall, really charming book.

Thanks NetGalley and Harper Collins UK for a copy of the book.

This was an intriguing reading and I really enjoyed it. It's not your average romance as the tea set element gives it a magical twist that adds a whole layer to the story. Many of the characters at the auction house are just lovely and I swung between giggles and trying not to sniffle as the complicated lives they leave and their secrets long kept unravelled. One to keep you up far later than you should be.

This book was both a surprise and a normal contemporary. I really liked how Maisie was indipentent and strong, with a deep security of what was right and what was wrong and never condecending to others. Aside from her, all the characters were flat even tho they were described in details, and I don't know what didn't work for me. The plot was really simple if not for the Teapot Set and I found it really sweet, with all this old sisters reunited after so many years! The family dinamic between the Meadows was really messed up and really relatable, I felt deeply for her struggle. Overall, a nice fluffy contemporary that made me smile.

It was mostly an okay read, but I got frustrated with some of the drama and the communication between characters.
Not bad, but not outstanding. I had to push myself to finish this.
Not my cup of tea, but if you like quirky "find-yourself" romance sprinkled with family drama, this one's for you.

Thanks Netgalley for providing me with a copy.

💜The Unlikely Life of Masie Meadows, by Jenni Keer is a really delightful story of love, family, friendship, and hope; sprinkled liberally with humor and lightly with bits of magic. Reminds me a bit of Amelie, Like Water For Chocolate, and Chocolat. 💜Thank you Net Galley, and Jenni Keer for the ARC, in exchange for my honest review.

*Book provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review*

We follow Maisie Meadows in this story. She finds herself single and with no job at the beginning of the year. Turns you her ex, who also was her boss had an affair. She wants to bring her family back together and also starts a new job at an auction house.

At the auction house she meets Theo, who really seems to distract her. A connection builds between them and that was great to read about.
Maisie’s family is quite something. Her siblings are scattered around the world and when they all finally come together things kind of explode. There is a lot of drama invloved and things oft he past are revealed. This makes for an excting storyline, which Jenni Keer transmitted in a great way.

Her writing is fresh, funny and engaging, I loved every minute of this book.
It’s about family, friendship, love, relationships and so much more.

Charming, sweet and full of excitement!

I always enjoy a story with a bit of magic interwoven throughout and it in no way jarred in this story. You can escape into Maisie Meadow's world as she starts out to find the missing parts of the mysterious black and white tea set. You can easily visualise the world of antiques at Gildersleeve's and you get to meet such a variety of people through it. There are all ages and Maisie seems to have a talent at bringing people together.

Behind the search for the missing tea set lies Maisie's desire to bring her scattered family together. They all have their own stories and you get to find out a lot about Maisie and her hopes for the future through them. Theo is a great character, full of unconscious charm. Particularly touching is the relationship which Theo and Maisie form with Arthur which really adds to the charm of the story.

In short: A charming story with a touch of magic.

Thanks to the author for a copy of the book

A quirky and interesting read.

Maisie loses her job and boyfriend the same day. She ends up taking a job at an auction house, where she meets an eclectic range of interesting characters. I loved how Maisie tries to bring her family back together but ends up creating her own family made up her new friends instead.

Overall a great read.

A cute charming read about Masie a girl determined to change her life and the struggles in her family. She starts fresh with a new job at a auction house sorting through other peoples dicarded belongings and trying to solely focus on bettering herself and her family when she crosses paths with Theo a attractive man who seems completely unattainable but so irresistible at the same time. Seeing Masie struggle to keep her distance and focus away from Theo was so fun and entertaining it made this book fly by lightning fast and made every second enjoyable!

I choose this book because my daughter is named Maisie. While it is an easy read, it took me a long time to get into it. I am not super fond of the character Maisie as we don't really relate. The characters seem nice enough, but I do not really care what happens to them. While the author tries to play the tea set with the family coming together, it seems far fetched.

There is one part of the book that I keep coming back to. Early on, Theo explains his friendship with Arthur- a man who is very different from himself. He talks about how much more interesting life is when your friends aren't all the same as you are. I need to remember that and branch out more. It is true, differences are what make up special and we need to celebrate each other's differences.

This book was such a delight to read.

Jenni Keer laces a story with magic interwoven throughout her words, casting a spell upon readers as they fall in love with Maisie Meadows as they read. I highly recommend this book about growth, maturity, and magic.

The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows is such a delightful read. Jenni Keer's book is just the one to pick if you are looking for a feel-good book that leaves you with a smile on your face.

At the onset, it might appear to be just a story of a woman from a broken, dysfunctional family desperate to bring her family together, but is a lot more than that. With a bit of 'magic' of course. I particularly enjoyed how each character was etched and how their story unfolded. The way the tea set was incorporated to take the story forward made it a wonderful read. I did feel the romance aspect was the weakest in the book, though.

I highly recommend the book and am looking forward to reading more books by the author.

This was just not for me. I hadn’t read the author’s previous book so I went into this one without understanding the style of storytelling. I won’t be trying these again, but I’m sure the audience is out there for it.

4☆ An Engrossing, Enchanting Feel Good Read with a sprinkle of Magic.

The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows is a compelling, enchanting and beautifully written story with a sparkle of magic, romance, emotion and humour.

Maisie finds herself without a job and boyfriend (who was also her boss) after she discovers him having it away with the newest member of staff, which leaves her no option but to hand her notice In.
So she sets out to find herself a new job, landing herself a wonderful new job in a quaint auction house Gildersleeves where they are plenty of quirky and eccentric characters and antiques to keep her busy.

But what is really intriguing is the antique tea set Maisie discovers, which she believes is of sentimental value.
So she sets out to find out more and to piece together the mystery and magic behind the Tea Set.
Which could just be the thing that helps bring her family together.

Maisie is such an endearing character, in fact all of the characters are superbly written. They are quirky, a lil eccentric loveable characters each with compelling sub storylines that make for an engrossing read!

The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows is an Enchanting, highly Compelling Read with a dash of Mystery and Intrigue, a sprinkle of Magic, a good dose of Humour and Romance to make you feel good.
This is very much a character driven story, about Family, Family Relationships, Reuniting Family, Connections, Romance, Friendship, Antiques and a Tea Set.
There are a few cleverly plotted twists which simply added to the mystery and intrigue perfectly.

If you are looking for a Warm and Cosy, Feel Good Women's Fiction that has a sprinkle of all things great, then you will love The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows.

I'm really looking forward to reading more from Jenni Keer.

Thank you to Rachel Random Resources for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

This was a really cute book how about a character trying to make sense of her life, both her upbringing in a divorced home as well as the current state of her family and personal life. I enjoyed the book but it took me a really long time to connect with a characters and ultimately just felt long. There are several twists in the book that I predicted fairly early on but it wasn't unpleasant getting to them. I would recommend the book with the caveat of being patient, both of the characters and the storyline.

I received a copy of this book from netgalley and the publishers in exchange for my honest opinions.

Trigger warnings: nothing extreme to speak of that I remember

Order and routine are the comfort blankets in Maisie Meadows’ life, everything neat and tidy, everything in its place. She knows what to expect from the relationships in her family and in her life, and then things change...
I absolutely loved Maisie, she’s such a lovely character to engage with. This story is full of delightfully quirky characters that feel so believable that you can picture them clearly in your mind.
There are a few laugh out loud moments, including a fab little Monty Python reference from the early 80s that I loved.
If I’m really honest, the romance element of the story was a little bit twee, but that just made it an easy read that left you feeling warm and fuzzy, if slightly cheesy.
Overall this was a great read that I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend. My thanks to #NetGalley and #HarperCollinsUK for allowing me to read this book in return for an honest review

What a lovely story.
This book had a bit of everything from the laugh out loud moments and there are a lot of them, to the family drama and the new job, new colleagues, new love story in line with the new hero.
The teacups set was a very unique adding to the story in my opinion and the way everything revolves to it was quite nicely done and entertaining.
I found the heroine very reliable and lovable as well as the hero who was sweet and paying all his attention to her and her needs. The side characters, that are quite a lot, very interesting in their own way as well, from the job colleagues to each member of the family that Maisie is trying to reunite through her tea meetings.
Looking forward to more books by the author.

Despite this being only Jenni Keer's second book, this was my first introduction to her work. It is very well written book that was full of charm but with some added giggles along the way. I was absolutely hooked from the start. I instantly warmed to Maisie and adored her character. I loved reading The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows and can't wait to read more from Keer.

Received an Advanced Reader’s Copy via NetGalley from publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Ah, this book. Let me draw you a picture. Imagine someone you really trust running the backs of their fingers against your cheek. Or the soft touch of a parent; or someone who knows you're busy and uses the softest of voices to ask you something before leaving the room as quietly as they came. Can you imagine that soft feeling that spreads through you? That's what reading The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows was like for me. 

Our lovely, slightly-on-this-side-of-an-OCD Maisie is the youngest child of a family split right down the middle. An older brother that rarely ever comes to see his family, two older sister who can never ever seem to put up with one another and a mother and father who both love and hate one another and so can't stand to be around one another for a moment. 

The arch of the story follows Maisie as she is cheated on and left to find another place of work, simply because how do you work everyday reporting to and sitting opposite the very man that decided to be unfaithful to you? Maisie then finds herself at an auction shop, agreeing to be the Marketing 'Head' (read only one on the team) for the little disorderly, but lovely shop filled with people with no connection whatsoever with one another, but with whom Maisie starts feeling a strange and lovely kinship. Enter, of course, hero, whose entrance we can never ever forget--thank you God *wipes tears of laughter away*.

Obsessed with the idea of bringing her family back together, Maisie recalls the magical and eerie tale told to her by the late neighbour of her childhood home and finds herself in the presence (and later, search of) these seemingly-magicked set of tea cups. All pish-posh right? But, what does it mean that with every bit of the tea set that she finds and reunites, more of her family starts coming together, standing at her doorstep laughing and talking as if nothing had transpired this last decade?

In truth, the The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows is actually about a set of tea cups. But it's also so much more. It's the story about a girl's heartfelt and desperate love for wanting her family and finding out that the pretty lenses she's been seeing things through were exactly that: the gaze of a child, unassuming and love-filled. It's about this young girl giving up this dream, only to find it around her all this while. 

TULoMM has many many laugh-out-loud moments, many many heart-moving sentiments (What? Who said I cried? My eyes merely misted....Okay, I'm lying. I totally cried) and a sweet romance that builds slowly and frankly you're almost ready to clear out the confusions yourself before the characters do, just because these two characters are so precious and you justcan'ttakeitanymore. This book has so many surprises that you never see coming until, they're suddenly there and you're wondering how this never occurred to you?

Imagine all this... now wrap it up just that little bit of magic. 

I highly recommend this lovely read! Read. It. Now. Luckily for you, The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows has released already and you can now go grab a copy in whichever retail store of your choice! 

Jennnnnny! I'm in love with your lovely writing. Please never stop. <3

Jenni Keer has woven together a beautiful story with threads of family, romance, and Magic. When Maisie finds herself loveless and jobless on New Year’s Eve she resolves that she is going to get it together. She also resolves that she is going to unite her fractured family. Soon Maisie finds herself working at an auction house. Job✔️ her new boss is an intriguing and interesting man named Theo. Love✔️ A heartwarming and uplifting story that will put a smile on your face.

Maisie was a delightful character that I loved getting to know. I loved meeting her family and I was really rooting for their eventual reconciliation. I also loved loved loved her coworkers, so much fun, made me want to get a job at an auction house. Loved the magical element with the tea set and Maisie trying to get the set back together. I kind a liked how it was in alignment with her trying to get her family back together. The romance was sweet, Theo was a doll, made my heart melt. This book was simply divine a definite gem.

*** thanks to Avon UK for my copy of this book ***