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.