Allen & Unwin Our House 2: Time to Shine book English Paperback 320 pages

Can Chloe Deal dazzle on stage, with some help from the builders at home?

Dad's weird and wonderful extended family are coming to stay at Christmas, and in preparation the Deal house is finally going to be redecorated! Dad's taken a job in Germany to pay for it, but as the builders start work they uncover more serious problems with the house.. Will Dad ever be able to move back home? Chloe has landed a starring role in her school play, but Imogen is the lead, and being as insufferable as ever. She even has a stage-kiss with Thomas! Can Mum and the kids pull off two school plays, a house refurbishment and a supersize Deal family Christmas?

Tom Easton is an experienced author of fiction for all ages who has published books under a number of different pseudonyms as well as his own name. His teen novel BOYS DON'T KNIT (Hot Key Books) was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for both the Leeds Book Award and Peter's Book of the Year, and won the Coventry Inspiration Book Award 2015. The sequel AN ENGLISH BOY IN NEW YORK is available too and Tom is now working on a younger, funny, family-oriented set of stories for Piccadilly Press that begin with OUR HOUSE. Tom lives in Surrey with his wife and three children and in his spare time works as a Production Manager for Hachette Children's Books. Find out more about Tom at www.tomeaston.co.ukor on Twitter: @TomEaston