Friday 2 November 2018

Book Review: Wish you were here - C. Alliott


Quite a pleasant reading, smooth, relaxing, nothing too complicated or heavy. Idillic setting in Provence, family secrets and relationships, maybe a bit too much throw in the same pot and some parts very difficult to believe, but overall an enjoyable chick lit.

Overall rating:  6    Plot: 6   Writing style: 6    Cover:  7,5


Title: Wish you were here
Publisher: Penguin

Pages: 432

Publication year: 2015

The Plot:

When Flora, James and their two teenage daughters are offered the holiday of a lifetime in a chateau in the South of France in return for one simple good deed, they jump at the chance to escape the confines of Clapham, the weight of the mortgage and anxieties over their future for a blissful break.But Flora didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage coming along too. And with James developing a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora distracted by ghosts from her past, their dream holiday suddenly takes some very unexpected turns . . .

The Author:
Catherine has written fifteen bestselling novels and is translated into eighteen languages. She has sold over 3 million books worldwide.

The first of these novels Catherine started under the desk when she worked as an advertising copywriter. She was duly fired. With time on her hands, she persevered with the novels, which happily flourished.

In the early days she produced a baby with each book - but after three - stuck to the writing as it was less painful. 
She writes with her favorite pen in note books, either in the garden or on a sofa.
Home is a rural spot on the Hertfordshire border, which she shares with her family and a menagerie of horses, cows, chickens, and dogs, which at the last count totaled eighty-seven beating hearts, including her husband. Some of her household have walk-on parts in her novels, but only the chickens would probably recognize themselves. 

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