Alistair's Reviews > Prettier If She Smiled More

Another intoxicating week spent with the Schnabels is an enticing prospect for Readers of witty fiction. This novel follows eldest sibling Kylie during the week of “the three disasters “. All of which befall Kylie, the woman in control at all times - or so she likes to think. About to lose control of the pharmacy where she’s worked since graduation, and which she thought it was her right to buy out the owner; her boyfriend/partner of nine months she discovers is cheating on her; and her period is more than a week overdue. Could she be pregnant, god forbid? And her waisted trousers are becoming ever so tight. Not that Kylie doesn’t like children per se. She loves her niece and nephew.
But everything and everyone should now resume their places. Except for the orange-coloured Pomeranian dog she’s agreed to look after for her possible future boss.
Jordan is a dab hand at the one liner: (Mid-sixties Gloria to her adult son: “It’s terribly depressing being the same age as old people.”)
Jordan’s second foray into the life of the Schnabels is a delicious treat.
Oh, and I loved the running lanyard joke.