Is Act Your Age, Eve Brown a standalone novel?

It's the third and final book in Talia Hibbert's Brown Sisters trilogy, following Get a Life, Chloe Brown and Take a Hint, Dani Brown. It can be read on its own, but it follows on from the earlier two books.

Where is Act Your Age, Eve Brown set?

In the fictional Lake District village of Skybriar, at a bed and breakfast run by love interest Jacob Wayne.

Does Act Your Age, Eve Brown feature autistic representation?

Yes. Both Eve Brown and Jacob Wayne are on the autism spectrum, and the novel is widely noted for its portrayal of late-diagnosed autism and the ableism its characters navigate.

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Reader reviews of Act Your Age, Eve Brown

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I liked this one better than the first book. I couldn't take the second book sister so I ended up skipping it. I enjoyed it and felt like their relationship was natural and not forced. It was also sweet. I am glad I read it. I don't know how I feel about the trend to have ever character have a diagnosis. On the other hand, would the book even be interesting? I need to think about it more.

A Novel

Contemporary Romance Romantic Comedy

Pages: 375
Published: 2021
Language: English

Synopsis

Eve Brown is the youngest of the Brown sisters, chaotic and warm-hearted, and long used to letting people down, herself included. When her latest venture collapses and her parents decline to rescue her again, she gets in a car and drives to the Lake District on a whim.

She ends up in the village of Skybriar, hired as the chef at a small bed and breakfast. Its owner, Jacob Wayne, keeps everything in strict order and has little patience for the purple-haired newcomer who upends his kitchen. Then circumstance leaves him no choice but to give her a chance.

This is a contemporary romance about two people who clash at work and keep being pushed together. Both are autistic, and both live in a world that seldom makes room for that. Their prickly working relationship slowly becomes something neither of them saw coming.

The book is the third and last of the Brown Sisters series, coming after Get a Life, Chloe Brown and Take a Hint, Dani Brown. Its tone is warm and funny, much like the earlier books.