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  • Prickly Company

  • A Novel
  • By: Kitty Johnson
  • Narrated by: Imogen Church
  • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Prickly Company

By: Kitty Johnson
Narrated by: Imogen Church
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Publisher's summary

Friendships, feuds, romance, and unexpected secrets shake up a small community in this sharply funny and compassionate novel by the author of Five Winters.

Frances Mathews doesn’t get out much since her husband died, but that doesn’t stop her from jump-starting a campaign to create a hedgehog highway in Hilltop Place—feeding stations, holes at the bottoms of gates and fences, and wild garden areas for hibernation. To Frances’s delight, her neighbours are on board. Mostly.

There are Jess and Michael, whose marriage is cracking under the unanticipated strain of a recent adoption. And Ryan, a wounded war reporter struggling to connect with his son after a divorce and forced to return to an exasperating parental fold. Plus, a very forthright single mum new to the neighbourhood and an exceedingly proper couple not about to upend their picture-perfect garden for prickly nuisances.

As relationships—from the romantic to the nerve-racking—form and secrets are unearthed, Hilltop Place is threatened in ways that affect them all…unaware hedgehogs included. What Frances and her charitable neighbours soon discover about themselves and each other is hardly what any of them expected.

©2024 Margaret K Johnson (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved
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Critic reviews

“[A] lovely and moving book of a neighborhood forming a community around hedgehogs…Recommended for all public-library fiction collections.”Booklist

Prickly Company has it all: romance, suspense, intrigue, and a community of quirky characters all learning to help each other. As a bonus, there are lots of lovable, prickly hedgehogs that will have you rethinking your landscaping situation. I loved every page of this book!”—Maddie Dawson, bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners

“Bursting with witty dialogue and plenty of hilarious moments, Prickly Company will enchant readers from the first page. I adored every quirky character and felt like part of the neighborhood by the end of this smart, funny, and charming novel.”—Kerry Lonsdale, Wall Street Journal bestselling author

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Prickly to cuddly

The narrator was perfect! I truly enjoyed all the characters and the development of them all. The relationships were complicated yet perfect. I loved watching a community of broken people come together and find beautiful lasting relationships.

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Awful book

I couldn’t even finish this. Whiny, bratty kids. Colostomy bag flatulence. Maggots. No likeable characters.

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