Synopsis
Sometimes there’s a right person for one half of your life, and a right person for the
other…
After twenty years of quiet, contented marriage, Mary Black can’t help but find her eyes drawn to a particularly handsome man at a Christmas party. But her world is suddenly turned upside down when she sees her husband Leo next to him, holding his hand…
For the sake of her children, Mary has no choice but to pick herself back up and start again. She hosts a family Christmas that includes her ex-husband and his new partner. She copes with her children wanting to spend less time with her, and more time with their “fun” dads. And she tries her VERY best to ignore Leo’s hunk of a brother, who has been living in New York for many years, but has just come back to town…
As Mary tries to reshape her future, the past unravels, exposing secrets and lies that rewrite the story of her life and leave her questioning where her loyalties really should lie. After living a life of sliding doors and missed opportunities, can she finally put herself first and take a chance that could change everything? Sometimes life begins at the end of your comfort zone…
Review
Thank you to Netgalley and the Author for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
This is a story that has the ability to completely suck you in and take you on a bit of an emotional roller coaster. I really began to feel for Mary and how she was trying to deal with the new reality that she found herself in and really felt like I was with her as she tried to figure out the best way to handle it. It was a book that can easily be read within an afternoon and one that is great to take your mind of the real world for a little while.
It was however fairly predictable but after awhile I did find myself getting just a little bit, I’m going to go with frustrated with Mary who in the nicest possible way is a bit of a doormat. While I could emphasis and understand why she was doing what she was doing, she really needed to stand up and advocate for herself once in awhile. I also wish that there had been more of a resolution and not one that was just suddenly done and dusted right at the end. It is a book I would still recommend with four out of five stars.
their grief. Now, her mum seems to be going off the rails and her sister, Isla, who moved to France, is now back and determined to get their old family home on the market. But the last thing Jess wants this Christmas is for renovations to start on the house. It’s sure to stir up all sorts of memories she’s desperate to avoid. And to make things worse, Isla appears to have hired the most obnoxious builder in the world to do the work. Jess could ignore the fact that women seem to be putty in his hands. But what she finds harder to ignore is the frisson she gets every time she squeezes past him in the mess that is now their beloved old home! Can the family finally start talking and find a way to move on from the past this Christmas?
consulting firm and she won’t let anything stand in her way. That includes men, relationships, and that dreaded F word, FEELINGS—distractions she eliminated long ago.
change – new friends, a career in the big city and the boyfriend she always wanted.
her hilarious family!
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worker, she lives at home, along with her parents and spirited younger brother, Bertie. But her life is transformed when she meets handsome young man, Edmond Derwent, son of one of the wealthiest families in the small town of Larchbury, and student at Cambridge University.
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