Maybe I am just sentimental since I have two daughters and am so close to my Mom and sisters, but this book appealed to me. It was a summer beach read, meaning, light, but engaging. Focused on a British family whose matriarch dies at 60 of cancer and leaves behind a journal or series of letters for her four daughters who range in age from 38-16 (and with 3 different fathers.) Her loving widow struggles to keep it all together. The characters seemed real to me and not so out to lunch. I also had fun with the Britishisms it isn't Brilliant, but it is jolly fun!