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A pitch-perfect blend of childlike innocence and Mark Twain-style fabulist humor.-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Pull up your knee socks and buckle your pinchy shoes, Celia is back! She''s a precocious seven-year-old, hell bent on saving earthworms. And much to her Nan''s chagrin, she''s still causing havoc wherever she goes. To top it all off, her comic strip in the local paper is going like gangbusters.     But with all this, what keeps Celia up at night is how to get her Nan''s house back-the one her should-have-been parents snookered her Nan out of. If she could do that, it wouldn''t be so bad that she only has Captain Ahab to play with....  A Crack in the Teacup is the laugh-out-loud second book in the Happy Valley Chronicles Humorous Women fiction series. If you like delightfully quirky characters, Sixties nostalgia, and sharp, modern sensibility, then you''ll love C.P. Hoff''s outrageous adventure.     Buy A Crack in the Teacup and pull up a chair by the fireside today!  

Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2020 For one family, it's always been a delicate balance between success and scandal. When a long-overdue obligation is called in ... scandal it is.Mrs. O'Brien never imagined it would come to this. Sure, she promised one of her offspring to God as an innocent newlywed, but that was before all of her children died but one, the one she was sure she'd have loved best. So when her iron-fisted grumpy nun of a sister demands she make good on her vow, the put-upon woman is determined to thwart the Church's claim.Mary-Kate O'Brien can't believe her ears. She may enjoy playing 20 Questions with the priest during confession, but becoming a nun doesn't promise nearly the same level of entertainment. So after discovering her dour, vindictive aunt is hell-bent on cloistering her, the clever girl sets in motion a mad scheme to escape her heavenly fate.With her only remaining child withdrawing in anger and her husband offering little more than mindless drivel, Mrs. O'Brien struggles to undo the consequences of her words. And as Mary-Kate wrestles with betrayal, she has no idea whom to trust in her quest to remain free of obligation.Can mother and daughter unite in time to slip past the long arm of Rome?West of Ireland is the laugh-out-loud first novel in The Picaresque Narratives humor series. If you like outrageous comedy, witty banter, and zany characters, then you'll love C.P. Hoff's rib-tickling tale.Buy West of Ireland for high-spirited fun today!