Paradise Garden

A sad and yet very sweet story about a mother daughter duo with Hungarian roots who live a happy life in Germany despite just about scraping by. Until a surprise visit and an unlucky accident cause everything to tumble down. What's next? Of course to go find that father you mother never told you about.

I enjoyed my time with Billie, who with her naivete and resilience make for a good heroine. She's also quite the grifter, and the author's choice of sometimes simply not revealing how Billie manages to escape tricky situations was a cop-out so blunt that it was quite funny.