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One day in May, Hattie's life changes for ever . . .
Hattie Carrington has good reason to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled at school and she's enjoying a fling with a sexy, younger man. But when work takes her back to the village of Little Crandon, heartbreaking memories of her first love surface. It seems that the secret affair with married politician Dominic Forbes, which changed the course of her life, just won't go away.
So when Hattie's bumps into Dominic's widow and his gorgeous younger brother, Hal, her world is turned upside down. Though she's still trying to hide from her mistakes, she knows that if she's ever to fall in love again she needs to be honest with others, and herself.
Can she admit what really happened with Dominic all those years ago? And, if so, is she ready for the consequences?
About the Author
Catherine Alliott is the author of ten bestselling novels including The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton, A Crowded Marriage and Not That Kind of Girl. She lives with her family in Hertfordshire.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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I really enjoyed Catherine Alliott's last novel so I was tempted to read this one. I wasn't disappointed. While I don't think it is quite as good as `The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton' I did enjoy reading it. Hattie is in business running an antique shop and she and her partner - Maggie - undertake interior decorating commissions. They specialise in all things French and regularly visit French antique fairs. Hattie has an adopted son - Seffy - who is away at boarding school and a toy boy - Ivan - who is also in the antiques trade.
The story revolves round the upheavals in Hattie's life when a secret from her past is revealed which threatens to overturn her organised life in the present. The book is full of interesting characters - Hattie's sister Laura and her husband Hugh - Maggie with her sharp tongue who is not afraid of anyone - and a deliciously camp interior decorator who Laura invites to re-vamp her newly inherited stately home.
I thought the book was well written with some far from easy problems for all the characters to solve. The section set in Bosnia during the war of the 1990s was well done as were the visits to France. Descriptions of the English and French countryside brought the scenery to life. All the characters were believable and interesting and I wanted to know what happened to them. This is an enjoyable read provided you like your chick lit to have a bit more substance than the usual light reading. I would have liked to give in 4.5*s as it is not quite a 5* read.
The story revolves round the upheavals in Hattie's life when a secret from her past is revealed which threatens to overturn her organised life in the present. The book is full of interesting characters - Hattie's sister Laura and her husband Hugh - Maggie with her sharp tongue who is not afraid of anyone - and a deliciously camp interior decorator who Laura invites to re-vamp her newly inherited stately home.
I thought the book was well written with some far from easy problems for all the characters to solve. The section set in Bosnia during the war of the 1990s was well done as were the visits to France. Descriptions of the English and French countryside brought the scenery to life. All the characters were believable and interesting and I wanted to know what happened to them. This is an enjoyable read provided you like your chick lit to have a bit more substance than the usual light reading. I would have liked to give in 4.5*s as it is not quite a 5* read.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have enjoyed Alliot's books in the past and I certainly enjoy some good chick lit. But this was totally blooming ridiculous. Completely pathetic attempt at the Balkans, absolutely riddled with histocial and geographical errors that rendered the story completely laughable. She should stick to the home counties. Clearly can't even get London right, either- were you aware that North End Road is in South London? Really annoying, as I was looking forward to a nice mindless chick lit read and instead ended up feeling very irritated.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a return to form after Catherine Alliott's last book and I really enjoyed it, down to the last page. There are a few good surprises in it, lots of lovely descriptions of nice places and some good characters. But does anybody proof-read these books? Nobody, not even British MPs I'd imagine, had emails in the early 1990s yet our heroine finds herself dealing with her boss's emails in or around 1994. And why do the children in these books always attend boarding-schools from which they are granted 'exeats'? I know they have to be at boarding-schools so as to allow their mothers - the heroines - the necessary freedom to do what makes novels interesting, but do they have to be so ridiculously posh? This strikes a very pretentious note which sits uneasily with Alliott's engaging lack of snobbery in other areas. But on the whole, I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants an honest-to-goodness and rather surprising romance, with a few laughs and lots of interesting travels along the way. But please Penguin,remember that even chicklit readers value historical accuracy.
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Main character is, as always, a nauseatingly stereotypical silly Conservative middle-class narrow-minded woman who never looks before she leaps and makes all sorts of foolish... Read more
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Not one of her best.
I do love Catherine Alliot's books and usually I find them so gripping and amazingly funny that they are very hard to put down - I'd spend hours reading. Read more
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Published 5 months ago by Mrs. C. L. Warrilow
An easy entertaining read
This is the second Catherine Alliott book which I have read and I did enjoy it, but not as much as ' Not that kind of girl'. Once again I read it very quickly-- over a weekend. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Tilly Tompkins
I was left balling
A curate's egg and eventually unsatisfying. I am left with the unpleasant feeling that if this had been someone's first novel it would never have been published. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Patrick JD Taylor
Awful.
Now, let me get this straight - I love Cahterine Alliott - the Old Girls Network and Rosie Meadows Regrets to name a mere few of her works have been utterly fanastic, they had me... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ms. K. Ellinor
Avid reader
Brilliant read...... I have read all Catherine Alliott's previous books and thoroughly enjoyed them. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lola
Average...and a tiny bit depressing
I LOVE Catherine Alliott but this book was really average and I was so disappointed. The main character, Hattie, goes on and on about how she's getting old and her legs are... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mellie Jellie
Great Holiday Read
Catherine Alliot is my favourite holiday author! Funny and lighthearted, be very careful if you are reading beside the poolside as this will have you laughing out loud!
Published 16 months ago by Lynne
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