Today I am pleased to bring you my review as part of the blog blitz for this engaging read from Victoria Cooke. Thank you to Rachel's Random Resources form inviting to me to take part and for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Book Description
One lost letter. A chance to change her life!
Superhero single mum Cath always puts other people first. But now that she’s seen her son safely off to university (phew!), life seems a little, well…empty.
So when Cath unexpectedly discovers some letters written by her great-grandfather during the First World War, she decides to take herself on an adventure to France to retrace his footsteps.
Cath expects to spend her holiday visiting famous battlefields and testing out her French phrase book. What she doesn’t anticipate is that her tour guide, the handsome Olivier, will be quite so charming! Soon Cath isn’t simply unearthing the stories of the past – she’s writing a brand new one of her own, which might end up taking her in a very unexpected direction…
So when Cath unexpectedly discovers some letters written by her great-grandfather during the First World War, she decides to take herself on an adventure to France to retrace his footsteps.
Cath expects to spend her holiday visiting famous battlefields and testing out her French phrase book. What she doesn’t anticipate is that her tour guide, the handsome Olivier, will be quite so charming! Soon Cath isn’t simply unearthing the stories of the past – she’s writing a brand new one of her own, which might end up taking her in a very unexpected direction…
My Review
This is an emotive and heart warming read that will absorb you from the first page to the last.
Cath is feeling lonely after her son leaves for university, and she's getting fed up with her lazy brother, Gary not helping her out after she gave him a roof over his head. She has no-one to celebrate her good news of a bonus at work with at work and she is fed up. She ventures into the attic one evening feeling alone again and stumbles across a pile of letters that were written by her great-grandfather during World War One. Cath is soon absorbed in the letters, The more she reads the more she wants to learn about what happened to him and what he went through during the war.
In work the next day she talks about the letters to her work friend Kaitlynn, who then persuades Cathy to book a much deserved holiday and head out to France to find out what happened to her Great-grandad and visit his final resting place.
It isn't long before Cath is sat on the ferry heading to France, she is nervous at first and is unsure that she has made the right decision but it doesn't take her long to decide that she is doing the right thing and she is soon on her way to have an adventure of her own.
It's in her hotel that she starts meeting new people and making friends who all persuade her to go on some coach trips with them to explore the areas that her great-grandfather would have visited and have fought in.
Its on these trips that she meets the handsome Olivier who makes her heart flutter and there is an obvious spark between them both but will either of them act on it or will the remain just good friends.
This is a fascinating read that entwines a love story from during the first world war with the modern day. It gives you good insight into the sites in the North of France, from which the war would have taken place and gives you a taste of history from the past and gives you an idea of how it looks now.
This book is a fantastic read that thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish and I'm really looking forward to reading what adventure Victoria will be taking us on next.
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Author Bio
Victoria Cooke grew up in the city of Manchester before crossing the Pennines in pursuit of her career in education. She now lives in Huddersfield with her husband and two young daughters and when she’s not at home writing by the fire with a cup of coffee in her hand, she loves working out in the gym and travelling. Victoria was first published at the tender age of eight by her classroom teacher who saw potential in a six-page story about an invisible man. Since then she’s always had a passion for reading and writing, undertaking several writers’ courses before completing her first romantic comedy novel, 'The Secret to Falling in Love,' in 2016.
Cooke's third novel, Who Needs Men Anyway? became a digital bestseller in 2018.
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