The One Who Loves You Tickled Pink #1

Pippa Grant — 2022

From USA Today bestselling author Pippa Grant comes a fabulously sharp-witted romantic comedy about a socialite’s fall from elitist grace to backcountry purgatory—and her accidental tumble into love. If the Upper East Side had an evil twin, it would be Tickled Pink, Wisconsin. This run-down, backwoods town isn’t worthy of the footprint of my Louboutins, never mind all of me. But when my grandmother has a near-death experience and realizes we Lightlys can’t buy our way into heaven, she relocates the family to Tickled Pink to work on improving our souls. And that’s how I trade my heiress existence for gigantic bugs, dishwater coffee, and a cranky single dad named Teague Miller. Teague spends his days fishing, raising his spunky teenager, and after an unfortunate incident involving cheese curds, living rent-free in my head. The one thing he and I can agree on is that I don’t belong here. He’s willing to help me escape—until the unexpected happens. I kind of like him. I might even more than like him. But am I ready to give up the life I adored for a man I love to hate?

Reviews

Nicola Sarah Brooks@nikkisbooknook

Jul 15, 2022

Phoebe can't believe the matriarch of the Lightly Clan has made them leave New York. Sure, she kind of froze when Gigi nearly choked but is that really a good enough reason to uproot the entire family (apart from THAT line) and take them to the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin - all to reenact some schmaltzy movie about the redemption of your soul?????

Teague loves Tickled Pink just as it is. Small town, tight-knit community, inclusive, and the perfect place to bring up his daughter. But the ton needs money and the Lightly's have a lot of it. So he may have sold the matriarch an absolute pig-in-a-poke of a building for them to renovate and live in. But when the uptight, pampered Princess Phoebe makes a deal with him to get Gigi to hightail it back to Manhattan he had no idea what he was really getting into.

Tickled Pink is the kind of town I'd move to in a heartbeat! Filled with quirky characters, inclusivity, and an inordinate amount of handsome men LOL. The cast of supporting characters is diverse and they all have their own personalities - no-one is used as filler. My favourites were of course Bridget, Wayne, Jane and Floyd.

The Lightly's put the fun in dysfunctional and I was impressed that any of the younger generations were remotely sane after living in that kind of bubble. I really wanted to nail Fletcher to a wall btw! Sure Phoebe is no angel but she at least grew a stable, emotional connection to people and even TP, he just remained an absolute butt!

I defy you not to have your heartstrings tugged throughout this book. Yes, the comedy is ace but it really does have a core of emotion and message of love & acceptance.

I cannot wait to see what havoc Tavi, Carter and the others wreak on the town next!