Published by HarperImpulse on April 6, 2018
Format: eARC, Audiobook
Source: Library, Net Galley
Pages: 271
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Also by this author: Love Heart Lane, Foxglove Farm
A family secret
One shocking argument and ten-year-old Alice Parker’s world was turned upside down. Her peaceful life at Honeysuckle Farm in the quiet rural village of Brook Bridge swapped for the bustling metropolis of New York City. Alice’s life was changed forever…
A second chance
Now, thirteen years later, Alice’s American dream is over. With her life in tatters, there is only one place Alice wants to be… home at Honeysuckle Farm. So, when Alice learns her beloved Grandie is ill, she knows this is her last chance to heal the family rift.
A forever home?
But secrets still swirl in Brook Bridge, and Alice is no closer to discovering the truth. And for some reason her new friendship with local heartthrob Sam Reid seems to be making the locals tense.
Sick of the lies Alice knows it’s time to lay the past to rest once and for all. But could the truth ruin her hopes of ever calling Honeysuckle Farm home again?
I did quite enjoy this story. It was a cute story. Secrets that tore families apart give you the usual bit of drama. It’s not my first outing with Christie. I do really just I do like her books and it was nice to get back to another one of her books. I find them really easy to get into and disappear, they’re very cute, and they leave you with that fuzzy feeling.
I listened to this book, and I wasn’t really a fan of the narrator her voice did grate on me a little bit, but the story is what kept me going and I am glad that I did.
So, Alice, something happened when she was younger, and she is taken away from her Grandad aka her Grandie, which I found very cute. She gets a message whilst living in New York, her Grandie isn’t very well and she makes a decision to go home back to the UK. The reunion between her and her Grandma was really cute and heartwarming.
We then follow Alice and her story of how she picks her life back up in UK, and ultimately makes a decision to stay. She wants her mum though, life wasn’t complete. What is sad, is the truth behind the secret and you see what tore the family apart all those years ago. Why it was the way it was broke my heart because not only did Alice just learn of a secret, then she had learned of another secret and I think anyone in her position would have struggled.
It was lovely to see the story come complete circle and I mean come on who doesn’t love a happy ending? Christie’s writing is so easy to get lost in. I mean, I love it. I could read a book by her any day that week. She writes stories that are so realistic, so much so they just make you want to keep changing the page and find out what’s going on. I loved and felt for Alice; I was there with Alice discovering the secrets that she had and with her discovering new love.
This was just a nice, good, gorgeous book. A nice one to read on a sunny day or listen to, which is what I did.
Until next time xxx
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2022 NetGalley
- 2022 Reading
- Published before 2022
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