A Summer to Remember
WANTED! A caretaker for Roundhouse Row holiday cottages.
WHERE? Nelson’s Bar is the perfect little village. Nestled away on the Norfolk coast we can offer you no signal, no Wi-Fi and – most importantly – no problems!
WHO? The ideal candidate will be looking for an escape from their cheating scumbag ex-fiancé, a diversion from their entitled cousin, and a break from their traitorous friends.
WHAT YOU’LL GET! Accommodation in a chocolate-box cottage, plus a summer filled with blue skies and beachside walks. Oh, and a reunion with the man of your dreams.
PLEASE NOTE: We take no responsibility for any of the above scumbags, passengers and/or traitors walking back into your life…
GET IN TOUCH NOW TO MAKE THIS A SUMMER TO REMEMBER!
This is not the first Sue Moorcraft book I have read, but the first one I have reviewed. It was read as a pure escapist and distraction read and it fulfilled that. Sometimes I had to go back over parts and reread as to me they didn't make sense, maybe a comma missing occasionally or just me.
Good description of the countryside, but sometimes it got a bit repetitive.
Clancy, leaves London for Nelson's Bar after she is forced out of her job/apartment/ business because of her at the time fiancé being caught “in flagrante delicto”. She leaves for Norfolk where she represents her cousin's share of a house and holiday rental business. Small village mentalities exist, but all this in and out of each others lives was over the top.
I couldn’t understand why solicitors weren't involved in some of the business dealings, they only talked about accountants.
The characters seemed to pack in an awful lot on some days, travelling from London to Nelson's Bar and then still going on and working.
In the acknowledgements Sue Moorcraft explains how she got advice on various subjects in the book, and things like the parish meetings and explaining about insurance covering subsidence came over well and presumably accurate. I hope so, as twice in the book she had people moving into other peoples homes because they were a part owner. No, it doesn't work like that, if someone was paying rent to cover that half, you can't do it. It is their home even though it might be partly your house.
Overall this was a pleasant read, it didn't tax the brain, but it was clichéd and over long.
My copy was provided by NetGalley for review.