We first meet the novel's heroine and namesake, Lola Rose Lambert, at her father's funeral. She then discovers that, in fact, Eddie wasn't her father – which goes some way towards explaining his nasty attitude towards her.

Finding a photo of a man looking very similar to
herself she finds out that he's Ricky "Wild Man" Wild, lead vocalist of famed rockers Poleaxe and briefly her mother's lover before he went back to his wife.

She tracks him down and he is totally uninterested in her. Lola decides to get on with her life but problems with her private life, flatmate and job mean that it's easy for Dinah, ex-wife of Rick and manager of Poleaxe, to persuade her to join them on the road as tour manager of the band. At first she meets hostility and suspicion from the crew but soon wins them over with efficiency and charm. She meets her bitter half-brother Jay, a backline tech with a massive chip on his shoulder and her wild-child half-sister Tiffany who's in and out of rehab and trouble. They're both poor little rich kids fighting Lola for their father's attention which he's too selfish to give to any of them. Working hard to manage the feckless musicians and crew, she tracks down lucky drumsticks, makes sure the suicidal members of the band are on the ground floors of the hotel and generally baby-sits.

Tour managing her dad seems to be more about making sure his suite's got the right colour curtains than establishing daughter/father bonds. There's also something odd going on with a "deranged fan" who makes a habit of sending threatening letters, and Terry MacIntrye, a former member of Poleaxe who seems to haunt Rick.

Lola is a likeable heroine with chainstore charm rather than expensive shine; messy and down-to-earth. She's always ready to help her friends. This is a heart-tugging gently comical chick-lit tale for fans of Katie Fforde, Veronica Henry and Cecila Ahern and, indeed, Hay's other seven novels.