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The Year of What If by Phaedra Patrick #Review

  I am delighted to join in the celebrations for the latest novel by Phaedra Patrick , The Year of What If. You can read my review of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper   here and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy  here Can the future be rewritten? On the verge of her second marriage, Carla Carter knows she’s finally found the one. She and her fiancé, Tom, met through Logical Love, a dating agency she founded for the pragmatically minded, and she’s confident that, together, they will dispel an old family curse claiming Carter women are unlucky in love. But Carla’s highly superstitious family insists she visit a fortune teller before her big day, and the tarot cards reveal that a different man holds the key to Carla’s happiness – someone she met while travelling during a gap year, twenty-one years ago. This startling information spurs Carla to trace and revisit the ex-boyfriends she met during that time before she walks down the aisle. From Barcelona to Am...
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Starting Over at Sunset Cottage by Lisa Hobman 'Review #BoldwoodBloggers

 

I am so happy to participate in the celebrations for the publication of Starting Over at Sunset Cottage by Lisa Hobman by Boldwood Books on October 21st. This novel was previously published as Through the Glass.  

 Do you love someone enough to let them go?

It was love at first sight when talented art student Felicity “Flick” Johnston-Hart and Jim MacDuff’s worlds collided at Oxford University.

However, after years of blissful marriage, everything crashes down when their marriage comes to a painful and abrupt end, thanks to Flick’s interfering mother Penelope.

Finally succumbing to maternal pressure, Flick falls into the high-flying career her mother believed she was destined for.

However, she soon realises life without Jim isn’t all she’d hoped, and that some decisions, once made, cannot be undone.

Meanwhile, Jim is settling back into life as a single man in the beautiful Highland village of Shieldaig, when an unexpected visitor brings painful news. A letter from beyond the grave leads him to do something he never imagined and takes him on a journey he didn’t anticipate.

Can either of them heal and truly move on?

Or is it true that a broken heart can never be a blank canvas?


My Thoughts

 When the story begins, you find yourself very much in Jim's camp. There seems to be very little to like in Felicity's behaviour and you wonder what is next in Jim's life. The story is told through both points of view so you follow them both and begin to understand more about their relationship. I enjoyed this development and by the end of the book realised how many layers there are to Felicity's character. There are several flashbacks back to when they both met and subsequent important events.

    There are plenty of twists and turns in this story and the period in Chicago feels like a complete gear change and was totally unexpected, by me at least. The writing is fluent and carries you through. My favourite section of the book concerned Sunset Cottage itself with all that gorgeous Scottish scenery and rural way of life. Knowing your own mind, family relationships and starting again are all important themes in this story.

In short: new starts and second chances

   

About the Author


Lisa Hobman has written many brilliantly reviewed women’s fiction titles – the first of which was shortlisted by the RNA for their debut novel award. In 2012 Lisa relocated her family from Yorkshire to a village in Scotland and this beautiful backdrop now inspires her uplifting and romantic stories.

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Book links: Amazon UK

Thanks to Lisa Hobman, Boldwood Books and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for a copy of the book and a place on the tour. 

 

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