Being Netta Wilde by Hazel Ward

From Goodreads

An uplifting story of love, loss and second chances that celebrates friendship and human connections.

Netta Wilde was all the things Annette Grey isn’t. Netta Wilde was raw, unchecked and just a little bit rebellious. She loved The Clash and she loved being Netta Wilde.

Annette Grey is an empty, broken woman who hardly knows her own children. Of course, it’s her own fault. She’s a bad mother. An unnatural mother. At least, that’s what her ex-husband tells her.

The one thing she is good at …

the one thing that stops her from falling …

is her job.

When the unthinkable happens, Annette makes a decision that sets her on a journey of self-discovery and reinvention. Along the way, her life is filled with friends, family, dogs, and jam. Lots of jam.

Suddenly anything seems possible. Even being Netta Wilde again.

But, is she brave enough to take that final step when the secrets she keeps locked inside are never too far away?

My thoughts

My thanks to the Author via TBConFB for the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review.  I gave this a 4 stars or 8/10.

Annette Grey on paper seems to have it all, a husband and children and a job that she is very good at.  This to most people would be a nice world to be living in.  However, it's not the world that she feels entirely at home in.  As relationships end others develop, new friendships are formed and love blossoms.

This is a story that I could say so much about.  There are plenty of characters that I loved and then there's one that I hated with a passion.  This person is a manipulator of the highest order, pecking away all the time at someone and making their life a misery.  Sometimes, good things come to those who wait and I am happy to say that this was the case in this story too.  

Grab a copy of this story and see if you develop the same feelings about this person that I did.  

I will be waiting to see what this Author writes next and I hope that she has more to come.