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First, a confession. I have loved pretty much everything written by this author. So approaching this, the seventh in the series featuring the riotous, charming and thoroughly hilarious Walsh family, my expectations were high.

And to a very large extent, they were met. All my favorite Walsh’s are here, and the authors laugh-out-loud wit is back and in fine form. This story features Anna Walsh, who the reader has encountered in “Anybody out there?”. Anna, a Manhattan based PR executive, now facing a burnout crisis that has her battling anxiety and total dissatisfaction with her life, decides to pitch it all and move back to Ireland. Reunited with her rambunctious family, questioning her future, and her past, Anna relives her memories of more than one perhaps-not-failed-forever former lover, as she journeys to a new equilibrium through experiences fraught with the author’s typical sparkle and hilarity, peppered with memories that gradually unwind the backstory that helps explain Anna’s current frame of mind.

A lively, lovely story, this is a comfortable, sexy and witty read, peopled with characters whose lives reflect those of the rest of us — bad hair days, maddening love lives, and torturous insecurities. And wrapped around it all, a warmth and a sweetness that comes with family, friendship, and the pulse of being loved.

My only challenge with this particular read was perhaps the level of the liveliness – in addition to the Walsh’s, and their inner circle, Anna’s new life in Ireland spreads to intersect with so many additional characters that for this reader, as colorful as many of them are, they were impossible to keep straight. But that perhaps, is the author’s point, as life in this crazy Irish family is riddled with social disasters, distractions, and always, a keen eye on each other’s kaleidoscope of happenings.

A great big thank you to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for an ARC of this book. All thoughts presented are my own.