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'Quirky fun' -- OK!
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A wonderfully warm and witty novel about building new friendships - in unlikely places...
When Bea’s husband dies, she decides not to be a lonely widow, rattling around her big Oxford house. Instead, she chooses three tenants, each of whom needs her help, and in return offers Bea more affection than her own distant son. Over the years they become something of a strange ‘family’, until the day they must find a new housemate.
Will needs a place to stay, and expects the usual grimy kitchen and sloppy students. Bea’s beautiful house seems too good to be true – until he meets the housemates. They’re all at least twenty years older than him, and range from outrageously camp to irritatingly raucous. But somehow he finds he’s taken the stunning spare room, and once he’s moved in it’s hard to escape. His sister, Harrie, falls in love with more than just the house when she comes to visit, and together they’re soon caught up in Bea’s final secret...
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Where there is a will.....,
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This review is from: Your Place or Mine? (Paperback)
This is another good page turner, it doesn't require a lot of deep thought but it is gripping enough to keep you wanting to know more.
The story centres around a wonderful house, which has been home to a couple and their son for many years, when the husband dies, and with a son who has little contact, Bea decides rather than move out to take in lodgers - but not student, fly by night personalities but older more mature (not necessarily the case) adults who can bring something to the remainder of Bea's years. The book opens informing the reader that Bea is dead and her room is up for rent. Which I found bizzare but the story unfolds through this. Joy, Hugh, Terry and Bruno affect Bea in many different ways bringing order and disorder to her life and house. Will and Harrie are strong characters who act as catalysts for the main and tell the story of themselves and the house. The books is cleverly written, swapping between what can only be called the past (when Bea was alive) and the present, with Bea dead and the problems of her will. (It doesn't go unnoticed that the man they let rent her room is called Will). It shows the strengths and weaknesses that all people have with their lives and how some are brought to the foray by interaction with others. If you want to good book to while away a couple of nights (that's how long it took me) then this is the book for you, it can leave you with that warm content feeling when you have finished.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A lovely book,
This review is from: Your Place or Mine? (Paperback)
I found this to be an easy book to read, amusing, entertaining and I liked the characters. This is the first book I have read by this author and I will certanly read more.
3.0 out of 5 stars
An entertaining read, with a intriguing plot,
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This review is from: Your Place or Mine (Hardcover)
An intriguing plot, with the switching between the past and the present. Not particularly great, but an entertaining read.
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