My name is Olivia and there's nothing I can do about it

My name is Olivia
and there's nothing I can do about it
Heartwarming youth debut by Jowi Schmitz

This is the biggest problem: my mother is dead.
This is the second biggest problem: my father is a bit lost.
That's perfectly understandable, of course, but it creates a lot of mess. I constantly have to clean it up, and I'm only ten.
Then there are smaller problems: The boat is small. We don't have much money. My father is a barber and not a regular hairdresser who can also do women, so he only has half of the world's population as clientele. Fortunately, there are quite a few men here who prefer to be shaved and get their hair cut all day. At least, that's what my father says.
And then there's the newest problem that started small but is getting bigger: my mother was cremated and they were supposed to send the ashes, but I don't think they can find us.
Because my father is a bit lost. Because I'm only ten.

'We're just passing through,' says Olivia's father.
But what is 'passing through' if you're not moving from your spot? On a boat, no less, stranded in the garden of a hair salon? It's only temporary, Olivia knows, as long as her father is a bit lost. But how do you get off a boat in the garden? Without a mother, but with many memories and a completely changed life?

Precocious, vulnerable but also strong and funny: Olivia will steal every reader's heart.