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Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

A Novel
Romantic ComedyContemporary Literature
Pages
375
Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

Eve Brown is the youngest of the Brown sisters — chaotic, warm-hearted, and used to disappointing everyone, herself included. After her latest venture collapses and her parents refuse to keep bailing her out, she drives to the Lake District on a whim and lands a job as chef at a small bed and breakfast in the village of Skybriar. The B&B's owner, Jacob Wayne, runs a tight ship and has no patience for the purple-haired newcomer who turns his kitchen upside down — until circumstance forces him to give her a chance. As Eve and Jacob are thrown together, each of them navigating being autistic in a world that rarely makes room for it, their prickly working relationship turns into something neither expected. The final book in Hibbert's Brown Sisters trilogy, following Get a Life, Chloe Brown and Take a Hint, Dani Brown, told with the same warmth and humor as the rest of the series.

Prose complexity
1/10

Vibe

HeartwarmingFunnyRomanticLighthearted
Grumpy SunshineWorkplace Romance

Genres

Romantic Comedy Contemporary Literature Romance

About the author

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Talia Hibbert

Talia Hibbert is a British romance novelist from Nottinghamshire, England, best known for Get a Life, Chloe Brown (2019) and the Brown Sisters trilogy it began. A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, she writes contemporary and paranormal romance centering diverse characters, including Black women, autistic people, and people with chronic illness or disability. She began self-publishing in 2017 while a university student, before signing a traditional deal with A...

Characters

Eve BrownProtagonist

The youngest Brown sister, a chaotic, warm-hearted chef who has just lost her latest venture and takes a job at Jacob's B&B; over the course of the book she comes to recognize she is autistic.

Jacob WayneProtagonist

The exacting, autistic owner of a Lake District bed and breakfast who reluctantly hires Eve as his chef.

Chloe BrownSupporting

Eve's eldest sister, protagonist of Get a Life, Chloe Brown, who appears as family in this installment.

Dani BrownSupporting

Eve's middle sister, protagonist of Take a Hint, Dani Brown, who appears as family in this installment.

All characters in Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Frequently asked questions

  • 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.