MY SYNOPSIS
Imagine This: The summer holidays are approaching
again. But this time around, things are not looking up like they were last
year.
Your husband
of twenty years is dead. There’s nothing you could do to keep the sorrows away.
And not even a much-needed vacation at the Shell Cottage would help since all
your most cherished memories with your husband and your two kids live in that
house.
You have
every right to pull back any plans for summer this year and sit at home and
mope. Your daughter tells you a summer vacation would be ideal to help you
recuperate, but you have a feeling they, your children, want to keep an eye on
you as suicide could be one of the to-dos you’ve planned ahead for this summer.
Things with
the other members of your family are not too good this year too. Besides
grieving the loss of their hero, your daughter is facing problems juggling the
kids and her stressful job as a GP, your son has a secret he cannot afford to
disclose to you all.
Surely,
summer 2015 at shell cottage wouldn’t be the best of family vacations. But
chances are, if you do not pull yourself together and make this summer a
memorable one, no one in the family would ever look up to summer at Shell Cottage
ever again.
Olivia
Tarrant’s story laden with drama, secrets and lots of reckless fun summarised
for your delight.
MY REVIEW
Christ it
was hard to put up that synopsis without bringing the spoilers and the numerous
omg moments right at the start of this title. So for starters, I’m giving the
OMG moments in this title a star.── ★
I liked this
book.
The
storyline was nothing short of Lucy Diamond’s excellence. Telling the stories
of one family’s summer after the death of a man they are not sure they could
live without. All the characters face individual and joint challenges in making
this summer one of the best summers of their lives in the memory of their
father and husband. Nothing like an amazing family read full of drama.── ★★
I loved the
main characters. Olivia Tarrant, the grieving wife who’s finding it hard to
move on after her husband’s death, encounters a friend who will change the idea
of a summer vacation for her forever. It’s all about being fun, reckless, and
carefree even after sixty! Freya Tarrant, the daughter who’s finding it difficult
juggling her three rowdy kids with her super-challenging job and a husband
who’s never around would also be admired. Harriet Tarrant-Price, the
single-mother who’s had enough of cheating men and is sure is living the dream
this time around with a husband who’s landed a huge book deal.── ★★★
Other
characters make reading this novel great as well. My very favourite, Gloria, a
sixty-year old widow who’s not stopped grieving as well as skinny-dipping.
Molly, the teenage daughter of Harriet who’s taking her chance on being a woman this summer. There’s also Libby,
Teddy, and Dexter the annoying yet adorable children of Freya with their
hilarious peculiar traits. A star to them.── ★★★★
I liked this
book. But I wished I could have loved, loved it. I wished it was as fast-paced
as Lucy Diamond’s previous, The Year of
Taking Chances.
So my rating
is a four out of five stars. (4/5 stars).
Lucy
Diamond’s amazing latest is available on amazon.
I recommend
this to anyone who wants a soothing family vacation read to cosy up to
this
summer. I recommend this to anyone who wants a book with laughing moments and
very relatable moments too. I recommend this to anyone who’s a Lucy Diamond fan
as she doesn’t disappoint in this title too. It’s all about being fun, reckless
and creating a new you this summer!
My work not
done. Off to post my review on Goodreads.
