Lou also enjoys looking the way she wants instead of trying to look like all the other girls at school. Lou dresses in crazy colors and outlandish outfits, thinking that it’s because it is the one way she can stand out from Treena’s cleverness. Lou knows that she is not dumb, but she has always felt inferior to her sister Katrina, who everyone calls Treena. She also enjoyed working for her boss, a sweet man named Frank. She especially liked talking to Dandelion Lady. Lou loved working at the café, chatting with the regular customers who came in daily. Lou reluctantly tells her mother that the holiday probably won’t happen because she has just been fired from her job, the café she works at is closing. Patrick has called to make further plans for the holiday that he and Lou have planned. Lou’s mother, Josie, quickly makes Granddad a cup of tea, chattering to Lou about Lou’s boyfriend Patrick. Lou (Louisa) says hi to her mom and then sets about getting a glass of water for her Granddad, who has suffered a stroke and can no longer care for himself. She arrives at her house to the usual whirlwind of activities, while her mother, Josie Clark, rushes about cleaning the house and her father (Bernard) plays with Thomas, the toddler son of Louisa’s younger sister Treena. The first chapter of this novel is about Louisa Clark, she walks home from work.
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