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    One of Those Days: Utopia Bay: A Flower a Day, #2
    One of Those Days: Utopia Bay: A Flower a Day, #2
    One of Those Days: Utopia Bay: A Flower a Day, #2
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    One of Those Days: Utopia Bay: A Flower a Day, #2

    By Jessi Hammond

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    Hailey's life is spiralling out of control.

    Her little sister is selfish, her young brother is… well, different, and her mother has taken off without explanation, leaving her father lost and shattered.

    But the absolute worst thing ever? Having to take her younger brother to her job interview.

    An interview she's already late for because of an impatient driver and a boy with a huge bunch of flowers…

     

    Utopia Bay is a small town on the east coast of Australia. This is one of its stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKincaid Publishing
    Release dateSep 14, 2019
    ISBN9781393065432
    One of Those Days: Utopia Bay: A Flower a Day, #2

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      One of Those Days - Jessi Hammond

      About this book

      Utopia Bay is a small town on the east coast of Australia. This is one of its stories.

      Hailey’s life is spiralling out of control.

      Her little sister is selfish, her young brother is… well, different, and her mother has taken off without explanation, leaving her father lost and shattered.

      But the absolute worst thing ever? Having to take her younger brother to her job interview.

      An interview she’s already late for because of an impatient driver and a boy with a huge bunch of flowers…

      One of Those Days

      One

      Hailey groaned softly as the bus slowed yet again and nosed into the kerb. It had stopped at every single stop since she’d hauled her little brother onto it fifteen minutes ago. At least Shaun hadn’t resisted – that would have been a nightmare of embarrassment. And he was calm for now, he had his nose buried in his iPad, his stylus busy on the screen. Hopefully he’d stay like that, docile and compliant, until she was done with her interview and they were home again.

      But, seeing as how today had already plummeted from okay to bad to worse, she was pretty sure ‘bloody awful’ was just around the corner.

      And if it involved Shaun, it could mean anything.

      She’d meant to get the 8.30am bus, the one that would drop her into town forty minutes before her job interview started. That would give her time to get to the Not-Just-A-Newsagent early, and give her a buffer if the bus was late.

      But it hadn’t worked out that way.

      It had started with Geneva being a diva, as usual. She’d somehow got around Dad and wheedled dancing lessons out of him – dancing lessons, when they hardly had enough money to pay bills now! Gen knew that, she wasn’t stupid, and she knew money was in short supply. But she was selfish, and what Gen wanted, Gen usually got. It had always been the same. Gen was cute, with baby blue eyes and angelic curls and a soulful expression, and a devious mind behind it all which knew exactly how to use all that cuteness. Mum had been kind of immune. Hailey was definitely immune. But Dad wasn’t.

      Mum had agreed to the dancing lessons just weeks before she left. But Dad was the one who had put her name down for the following term. Because Gen was scarily talented at dancing and the dance teacher had done everything she could think of to keep her star pupil.

      And since Mum had left it was Hailey’s job, according to Gen, to make sure her dancing outfits were washed, hung up and all the sequins and bows and ribbons and other twiddly bits were all sewn on and accounted for.

      Even when Gen left them screwed into a ball in the far corner of her room under her bed.

      So Gen had thrown a monumental screaming tantrum this morning, which only ended when Dad promised to bring the outfit to school when he picked Gen up for dance

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