It's only been a few weeks since I first discovered Melissa Hill and since then I have read all her books. I'm amazed and delighted. Not only has a new name been added to my list of top favourite authors, but I have also had very little sleep lately.
"Please forgive me" is Hill's absolutely best book so far, and one can only ask oneself where this authorship is going to end.
This book has got everything. Not only one, but three, parallell and delightfully intricate stories. A broad specter of different and colourful characters - and as always, the most unbelievable twists and turns. The writing flows easily from the author's extremely light pen and incredible imagination. From Dublin to San Francisco - a side trip to Dallas, Texas - and also a couple of generations back and forth in time.
The main story is about Leonie, who brokenhearted flees Dublin and Ireland and settles in San Francisco where she gets a job in a flower shop. Her nabour Alex, who soon becomes a great friend, brings her own story and in her apartment Leonie finds a box with old unopened letters from where another story unfolds.
The book is not only first class entertainment but the touching yet realistic telling of three different - or not so different - love stories, set in different places and times.
Impossible to put down, it simply cannot be done better.
Enjoy!