I got into the story for Caddy and Michael, though - all conversations very well-rendered in audio form, "MICHAEL, DARLING!" "Don't call

Well," said Eve, sighing as she remembered. "She was in Italy and I was in England. So it was difficult. I was always going to go and visit her, and I never quite did. I wish I had." This shows that Caddy, and therefore the rest of the family, all share Saffron’s loneliness. When the family attends the funeral, there is a moment when Saffron seems contented in a strange way: Big Brother Instinct: The only time Indigo has gotten himself into a fight was when he thought his bullies were going after Rose. Though it turned out the circumstances were more complicated than that and Rose was actually beating them up. This, like the car for Indigo, the house for Caddy and the money for Rose was, indeed, gone. Thirteen year old Saffy then decides the key to find her angel is in Venice so she stows away with new friend Sarah. But MY GOD is she just plan selfish! She completely disregards the fact she even lives with a family she is blood-related to. Hell the story could have been even stronger if she was in care of someone not of blood at all but the fact that her mother's sister was willing to take her in as her own (WHICH DOESN'T MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE SINCE THE MOTHER AND SISTER WERE TWINS) is very thoughtful. But Saffy denies this and she denies all the love her parents give her. It's only until the end of the whole damn book does she realize it. Wow.Saffy's Angel starts off a bit harrowing as the author drives you immediately into the world of a family afflicted with artism and associated dysfunctions. Fortunately, that first scene includes a walk-on by a woman who can be used to represent your every-day sensibilities and if you let her carry your own quibbles and expectations as she leaves, you'll be just fine. If you can't do this, there's no way to enjoy the book so you'd best stop there. I got into the story for Caddy and Michael, though - all conversations very well-rendered in audio form, "MICHAEL, DARLING!" "Don't call me darling, I am a driver instructor". That little note about how he needs to keep from looking at her as long as he can, because once he does, he can never quite concentrate as much on the instructing. And Droopy Di!! I would take a book that details their 99 driving lessons in detail. She Is All Grown Up: Likely to be Invoked as a means of getting Tom and Rose together in her blog if it happens there. Saffy had a dream that came over and over. In the dream was a white paved place with walls. A sunny place, quiet and enclosed. There were little dark, pointed trees and there was the sound of water. The blue sky was too bright to look at. In the dream something was lost. In the dream Saffy cried. In the dream was the word, Siena.

Indigo is one of my favourite characters but also Rose. I could go on, but this is getting long so I will stop soon. Saffy's Angel inspired me so much. I loved it; I was in hysterics half the time but sometimes I cried. How does Rose's trip to the zoo in Forever Rose change her and the circumstances in her life? Is she happy with these changes? Do you think she should have been punished?

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To be quite honest, the overwhelming twee at the beginning put me out. I could deal with the kids being twee, because they are kids, but the parenting in this book really annoyed me throughout, and even, in Bill's case, super enraged me. (I think as a kid I would have found Eve's behavior cool, or whatever, but as a parent myself, oh boy, I had Thoughts.) Her parents are probably the biggest idiots in the book. They don't put their foot down and they honestly have no sense of decency. All the children in the book annoyed me one way or the other. At the start of the novel, Saffron is going through hardships when you discover she is adopted. Her mother died when she was little, so Saffron went to live with her mother’s twin sister and her family. You feel sympathy for Saffron when her aunt, Eve, who she always assumed was her mother breaks the news to her,

Once Done, Never Forgotten: Rose remembers David, one of Indigo's former bullies, when he comes asking for help. Guy of the Week: Caddy's dating method in books two and three, though she never forgets Darling Michael. We are!’ cried Eve. ‘Of course we are! We adoptedyou! We wanted you! Your mother was my sister! Caddy and Indigo and Rose are your cousins!’ One day Saffy looks on the paint chart and can't find her name. Her siblings names are all on there: Cadmium Gold, Indigo, and, Permanent Rose. When her beloved grandfather dies, Saffron finds out she is really adopted and that her mother is Eve Casson ( Caddy, Rose and Indy's mum)'s identical twin sister (by the way this is NOT a spoiler). In her grandad's will she is left a stone angel. Runaway Bride: Subverted. Caddy agrees to marry Alex instead of Darling Michael, but he now doesn't want to marry her. Later, Caddy steals all of Rose's postcards from Micheal and runs off in search of him instead.The Ditz: Eve Casson. She has her moments of Genius Ditz, though, notably in naming her children, which even Bill commends her for in the first book. Deadpan Snarker: Rose, Indigo, Saffron, Sarah, Tom... pretty much all of the main characters tend to be pretty snarky. If there is one thing your mother was good at," Bill Casson, the children's father, would say, "it was choosing names for you children!" I'm ringing the hospital!" said the health visitor in a voice of controlled calm. "Wrap her up in something warm! Don't give her anything to drink! We'll go straight to Emergency...."