I can see my mother is calling me. I answer the phone, knowing I’ll have to tell her about Oliver and me breaking up. But before I can, she announces, ‘I don’t exactly know how to tell you this… But I’m leaving your dad.’
Single together for the first time, 34-year-old Meg and her warm-hearted, long-suffering mother Sally are cancelling Christmas, and running away to a tiny cottage on the Cornish coast. For Meg, it is the perfect place to heal, away from all the mistletoe, while for her mother it has a special, and secret, place in her heart – from a love story that seems a lifetime ago…
Meg and Sally find they’re getting to know themselves, and each other, better than ever before. But as they are unable to resist getting involved in the village Christmas celebrations, they encounter two handsome local strangers.
Sometimes, it’s being away from home that helps you realise where your heart is. What neither woman knows is that, by the time the new year rolls around, one woman will have fallen in love with her husband all over again, and one marriage will be over for good…
My review
Love is a wonderful thing. It can make you dance in the rain or swing on the chandeliers, but when something goes wrong it can make your heart break in a million pieces.
Being in a relationship often means compromising. You need to put water in your wine, but when one ends up with only water and the other one with only wine, things need to change. How, though? Do you let go of your dreams in order to make your second half happy? Do you hang on to your dreams in order to make yourself happy?
Sometimes love means letting go. Sometimes love means not letting go. It’s up to you to figure it out. Should you stay or should you go?
Often being happy apart is better than being miserable together …
A very enjoyable feel good story! 5 stars.
Thank you, Karen King and Bookouture (via Netgalley)
About the author
Karen King was born in Birmingham and has always enjoyed reading and writing. A multi-published author of children’s books and romantic fiction, her rom-com The Cornish Hotel by the Sea became an international Amazon bestseller. She is delighted to now be part of the Bookouture team. She now lives in Spain and intends to spend her time writing romances while her husband, Dave, grows vegetables and tends to the zillions of fruit trees on their land – when she isn’t sunbathing or swimming in the pool, that is.
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