after she finally , finally finished the last of the dreariest essex queue counts in the history of dreary essex queue counts , and after she 'd picked up a cranky , under-slept jp from yet another saturday with her father , who was weirdly distracted and mumbled something about getting back to his cuttings , and then having at last arrived home after going to two separate supermarkets to find the only kind of juice jp was drinking this week ( mango , passion fruit and peach ) , there was a knock on amanda 's front door .