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Brown Owl's Guide To Life

by Kate Harrison

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Shy, sweet-natured Lucy Collins is used to being pushed around. For the first eighteen years of her life, her widowed mother Judith ruled the roost. Now Lucy's husband, her seven-year-old daughter and even Buster the cat boss her about. But her mother's premature death leaves Lucy an orphan at the age of thirty-five. She's devastated...but she's also free. After a lifetime of being a disappointment to everyone, is it finally time Lucy grew up? As she clears out her mother's rambling house, Lucy discovers a trunk full of memories...her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were all Brown Owls: capable, no-nonsense matriarchs who were the leading lights of the Girl Guide movement. They spent their spare time preparing the next generation for their roles as wives and mothers with a mixture of campfire songs, sew-on badges and reef knots. But could the old values and frontier spirit now hold the key to help Lucy make the changes she needs in her life?… (more)
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I enjoyed this book, I was initially drawn to it as I have such happy memories of my time in the Brownies. The idea of meeting up with your six again is at once exciting and terrifying and the different characters response to the idea reflects this.

It is really good to see that in the end although all the girls lives have taken very different directions they were all there for each other. ( )
  Susan-Pearson | Feb 23, 2023 |
Okay chick-lit which was suitable for reading during my holiday. The characters all (rather conveniently) had their issues resolved by the end of the book, if only this happened in real life like that! ( )
  floriferous | Jun 30, 2013 |
Bit slow at the start but very well written. ( )
  rohetherington | Apr 5, 2010 |
This book rang a lot of bells with me when it came to exploring life now and looking back and realizing how life has changed since my time in the Pixies ( )
  susanpenter | Apr 24, 2009 |
Hmm, I was hoping this would be a good read and it was to some extent. Sadly it was the usual chick lit format - the main characters (female) life problems are all sorted by eventually meeting a fab man and getting a good seeing to!! It promised more initially. The brownie link was a good hook to get me reading it. I don't know what else to say. ( )
  happyanddandy1 | Jul 26, 2007 |
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Shy, sweet-natured Lucy Collins is used to being pushed around. For the first eighteen years of her life, her widowed mother Judith ruled the roost. Now Lucy's husband, her seven-year-old daughter and even Buster the cat boss her about. But her mother's premature death leaves Lucy an orphan at the age of thirty-five. She's devastated...but she's also free. After a lifetime of being a disappointment to everyone, is it finally time Lucy grew up? As she clears out her mother's rambling house, Lucy discovers a trunk full of memories...her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were all Brown Owls: capable, no-nonsense matriarchs who were the leading lights of the Girl Guide movement. They spent their spare time preparing the next generation for their roles as wives and mothers with a mixture of campfire songs, sew-on badges and reef knots. But could the old values and frontier spirit now hold the key to help Lucy make the changes she needs in her life?

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