I picked this up through a free promotion and it had been sitting on my Kobo for a while. I impulsively decided to read it while I was camping, and I'm so glad I did. Sitting by the campfire on an outback station, surrounded by wide open paddocks, horses and a buffalo, gave a perfect backdrop for reading about a family that moved from the city to a farm in country New South Wales, Australia. Being the dry season in the Northern Territory meant lots of dust, and not a puddle in sight though.

Love and Muddy Puddles is a middle grade/ya fiction novel dealing with issues such as fitting in, being popular, bullying, making new friends and horses. Although I never had aspirations to be one of the popular girls, and I never cared about fashion when I was Coco's age (which was a loooong time ago), I was still able to empathise with her. I loved watching her grow and mature throughout the book.