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A Scottish Lighthouse Escape by Julie Shackman # #ScottishEscapesBook9 #PublicationDay

  Welcome to Book 9 in the Scottish Escapes series by Julie Shackman. A Scottish Lighthouse Escape  is published today on July 31st by One More Chapter . You can read my reviews of others in the Scottish Escapes series here   A Secret Scottish Escape . |  A Scottish Highland Surprise    |   The Cottage in the Highlands |   A Scottish Country Escape   |  The Bookshop by the Loch A Scottish Highland Hideaway   |   A Scottish Island Summer   Get ready to fall in love with the brand new romance in the Scottish Escapes series from bestselling author, Julie Shackman.   When romance author Rosie Winters’s own fairytale romance ends with a bang, she’s determined to get away from everything. Packing up her belongings she sets off for the furthest place she can think of: Scotland. Rosie spent her summers at her late grandmother’s coastal cottage in the Highlands and knows it’ll be the perfect place to wallow f...

Summer Island by Natalie Normann #Review


Let's travel to a summery Norway for Natalie Normann's charming romance, Summer Island.

He never meant to stay.

He certainly never meant to fall in love…

Summer Island off the coast of Norway was the place London chef Jack Greene should have been from. He’s an outsider in the community that should have been his family, and now he’s setting foot on the strange land he has inherited for the first time.

Ninni Toft, his nearest neighbour, has come to the island to mend her broken heart. With her wild spirit and irrepressible enthusiasm, she shows city-boy Jack the simple pleasures of island life – and what it means to belong. To a place. To a people. To one person in particular…

Home is where the heart is, but is Jack’s heart with the career he left behind in London, or on the wind-swept shores of Summer Island, with Ninni?


My Thoughts

It was a refreshing change to read a novel which was set in Norway in full Summer. Extended daylight hours and unexpected sunshine light up the story, making it an ideal summer read to escape into. Full of warmth and heart-warming tones, you can sense the community values which bind the islanders together. It is a relaxing read which you feel yourself settle into.

    Jack strikes you as an outsider from the start. Certain members of his adopted family have never accepted him. As he arrives on the island, he seems to have been cast adrift from his life in London and he is a stranger despite his birth right. Ninni is totally at home on the island and has returned to it looking to heal her broken heart. It is fascinating to watch how the islanders react to them both. Friendship and family values run through the whole story. You glimpse some old traditions and customs and there is a real feeling of being rooted in a community which looks out for its members who don't even bother to lock their doors.

In short: a warm, relaxing read.
 
About the Author


Natalie Normann grew up in a shipping town on the west-coast of Norway and always wanted to be a writer. Actually, she wanted to smoke cigars and drink whiskey like Hemingway but settled for chocolate and the occasional glass of Baileys.
Her writing journey started with short stories in women’s magazines until her first book was published in 1995.

Summer Island is her first romance written in English.

You can follow Natalie here: Twitter   |  Facebook

Book link: Amazon UK 

Thanks to Natalie Normann, One More Chapter and Anne Cater of Random Things Tours for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.  

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  1. Thank you for your review of Summer Island. This is just the kind of review you dream of before a books gets out there :D

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