Natalie Jackson might keep up appearances on Instagram, but in reality, her fiancé has just jilted her after the birth of their baby and she’s moved back in with her mum. Life isn’t exactly going to plan!
So when she enters the village raffle for the holiday of a lifetime, she thinks she has no chance of winning. But her name is pulled out – and, as luck would have it, so is a ticket bought by her childhood nemesis: Will Brimble.
Surely a romantic holiday for two is the worst idea ever…right?
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
I told my friends that he ‘wasn’t really an office person’ which, looking back on it, was just a nice way of saying he was pretty much unemployable.
Rowena picks up her phone and shows me an array of cross-stitch creations in frames on the walls of her book-lined flat… There are a few slightly bizarre but surprisingly life-like portraits of her cat, who she tells me is called Mittens. There’s even a feminist design of a uterus and ovaries with the slogan ‘Grow a pair’.
I glance over at him and there it is. Just out there. In plain sight. And I can see instantly how he got the nickname ‘the cruise ship’. As far as ships go, it’s a big one.
My Review:
This was a sweet and amusing second chance romance/women’s fiction story for a first love couple sixteen years later. I always enjoy Ms. May’s humorous descriptions and wry wit and this book came with the added bonus of an international travel adventure to an exotic land I’ve never ventured to, Morocco. The slowly developing storylines were easy to follow, peppered with humor, and cast with likable and earnest characters. I adored Will Brimble.
Zoe May is an author of romantic comedies. Zoe has dreamt of being a novelist since she was a teenager. She worked in journalism and copywriting in London before writing her debut novel, Perfect Match. Having experienced the London dating scene first hand, Zoe could not resist writing a novel about dating, since it seems to supply endless amounts of weird and wonderful material!
Perfect Match was one of Apple’s top-selling books of 2018. It was also shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Joan Hessayon Award, with judges describing it as ‘a laugh out loud look at love and self-discovery – fresh and very funny’.
As well as writing, Zoe enjoys walking her dog, painting, and, of course, reading! She adores animals and if she’s not taking a photo of a vegan meal, she’s probably tweeting about the dairy industry. She is half Greek and half Irish and can make a mean baklava. Zoe has a thing for horror films, India, swimming, hip hop, and Radiohead. She has an encyclopedic knowledge of handbags having spent several years working in fashion copywriting and could probably win Mastermind if this was her specialist subject!
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I really adore the cover!
Great review. Looks good.
Not entirely up my alley but it looks cute
Sounds like a fun read.
I am rather drawn to the cover.
I haven’t read this one yet but I love second-chance romances 🙂