The Road to Tender Hearts -Annie Hartnett

At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday should be the happiest man in town, but everything in Pondville is another reminder of the child he lost and the way his marriage fell apart. So when PJ hears that his high-school sweetheart, Michelle, is unexpectedly back on the market, there is nothing stopping him from driving straight to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win her back. But before he can hit the road, a spanner in the works: a tragic incident has suddenly left PJ as the only guardian of his estranged brother's grandchildren. Anyone else might be deterred, but it seems like the newly orphaned kids might enjoy the trip out of town, and PJ's adult daughter, Sophie, has been roped in to help babysit. There is one final surprise passenger too, Pancakes, a former therapy cat with a knack for predicting death, who recently turned up outside PJ's home. Praised by John Irving as a miraculous novel and warmly reviewed by the New York Times, Annie Hartnett's The Road to Tender Hearts is a wild, weird, big-hearted road trip novel about grief, second chances, and the families we make along the way. Buckle in for the road trip of a lifetime.