Our House - Softcover

MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS meets OUTNUMBERED in a funny and charming story about an eccentric, loveable family. Chloe Deal is observant. Every day she notices small details - like how Front Door always refuses to open when it's raining; how whatever task he sets out to do, Daddy usually ends up snoozing to the radio in his shed; how her younger sister Daisy muddles her similes but never her fashion sense, and how Mummy's nostrils flare when Dad forgets to mow the lawn, again. So when Chloe starts a school project about her house, she ends up cataloguing the chaotic balancing act of her family along with it. In the run up to the school holidays (and Chloe's birthday), disaster follows disaster at home and school. Mummy's patience is beginning to unravel. Can Chloe get the house, her siblings and her father in shape before it's too late?

Tom Easton is an experienced author of fiction for all ages who has published books under a number of different pseudonyms as well as his own name. His teen novel BOYS DON'T KNIT (Hot Key Books) was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for both the Leeds Book Award and Peter's Book of the Year, and won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award 2015. The sequel AN ENGLISH BOY IN NEW YORK is available too and Tom is now working on a younger, funny, family-oriented set of stories for Piccadilly Press that begin with OUR HOUSE. Tom lives in Surrey with his wife and three children and in his spare time works as a Production Manager for Hachette Children's Books. Find out more about Tom at www.tomeaston.co.ukor on Twitter: @TomEaston