Published by Bookouture on July 11, 2018
Format: Audiobook, eARC
Source: Library, Net Galley
Pages: 330
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Ashley Moon is all set for a dream holiday with her daughter in the glittering French Riviera. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of discovering who’s staying in the villa next door…
Ashley Moon got much more than a suntan on her first ever foreign holiday; one whirlwind romance and nine months later she had a daughter,Molly.
Too heart-broken and proud to ever contact the father, Ashley made a decision to go it alone and raise her daughter herself. Fifteen hard and lonely years later, she finally has the chance to take Molly on her first ever holiday; a gorgeous, all-expenses paid trip to the charming French resort of St Raphael.
It is the perfect setting for a week of quality time together; they plan to cycle through the sun-drenched vineyards, lounge by the glistening pool and practice their French on friendly locals. And just when Ashley thought things couldn’t get any better, comes the news of a handsome new occupant to the villa next door.
But fate has other plans for Ashley. One look in to her neighbour’s dark hazel eyes is all it takes to give her the shock of her life. Standing in front of her is Haydon, Molly’s long lost father and the holiday fling she thought she’d never see again.
As the temperature on the Cote D’Azure steadily rises and Ashley and Haydon begin spend more and more time together, will Ashley find the courage to tell him who she is – and more importantly, who Molly is?
A wonderfully heart-warming story of first love and second chances for fans of Jenny Oliver and Lucy Diamond.
Every once in a while, you obviously need to cleanse your palate of dark, gloomy, disturbing stories and read a nice little romance. That’s what this is. This is a sort of book you can read curled up on your chair in the sunshine, with a glass of wine, or at the poolside and get lost in the story of Ashley and Haydon. I’ve never read anything by Tilly before so this was quite an experience for me and I did enjoy this story.
I will admit, Ashley did get my nerves a little bit with her whining, and she was a little bit repetitious about her situation. Yet, that didn’t detract from me the story and the whole when will Ashley tell her secret!! I mean, we know the secret. We know the secret from pretty much the beginning. However, no one else knows this. We all know about Haydon being Molly’s dad. No secrets in the blurb and the rest of the time we are just watching Ashley and Haydon. Love never runs smoothly. No, I mean, it would be boring if it did.
I mean, I was sitting there listening to the audiobook and I can’t remember it must be about 30% in and we meet Haydon and then we meet Haydon’s daughter Ellie and I was just like how the hell is the rest of this book going to go? Not gonna lie. I guessed quite a lot of it. I kind of guessed how it was going to pan out and some of the threats to their relationship but it still didn’t take away anything from the book.
I thought the narrator was fab. I would love to go to the place they went to in the South of France that sounded absolutely beautiful. I just enjoyed the story. I enjoyed the story of Ashley and Haydon learning about how they got to where they were today. I was cheering when they first met I must admit as soon as I knew Haydon was booking a holiday with his daughter. I was cheering because I just knew that they were going to Ashely and that got me through a particularly low point I was going through that week with my knee. It was just it filled me with joy.
As I’ve always said in stories like this, it doesn’t matter if you know the end, the middle, or the beginning. It doesn’t matter if you know the reveal. It’s all about the way the author writes the story. It’s the characters that make it believable and what makes you care. I say top points here to Tilly. She’s done all that, I cared about Ashley, I cared about Haydon. I cared about Molly and Ellie and how it would all work out.
I really wanted to make sure that everyone had the happy ending they deserved, did they get it or not? Well, you’re gonna have to read the book.
Until the next time xxx
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- Published before 2022
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