Doctors Without Borders has been Lucy Young’s life for the past four years. After being rescued from a conflict zone, she’s making a change from saving lives under gunfire to practising medicine in safe, serene Siena.
Now treating wealthy patients at a private clinic, she's never felt less comfortable. She’s used to helping those in dire need – not those in need of a nip and tuck. Her turmoil grows when she encounters injured tennis star David Lorenzo, whose smiles make Lucy forget her aversion to the rich.
She’s soon falling for the sportsman but is she losing herself in this world of excess? All she’s ever wanted was to help the underprivileged, so can her future lie in Siena at the clinic – with David?
This sunny romance is the perfect summer escape for fans of Lucy Coleman and Alex Brown.
My Review
This is the perfect summer read and one I did not want to put down.
Dr Lucy Young has been working as a doctor with Doctors Without Borders for the last four years. This finds her working in areas where there is a huge amount of conflict and she regularly is putting her life in danger. This last year has felt really difficult for Lucy and after being rescued from a conflict zone with what seemed like minutes to spare Lucy begins to evaluate her life and decides that she needs a break from her work for some much needed rest.
Lucy decides to go and visit he best friend in Italy who is getting married. Lucy knows they will take care of her and let her get the rest her body and mind need.
Lucy is loving being back in Italy it is giving her the chance to think about how she wants her career to process and where she wants to go with her life. Then when a job offer comes her way to work in a private clinic caring for wealthy patients Lucy decides to take the opportunity to stay in Italy.
The job is very different for Lucy, all she ever wanted to do as a doctor is to help the most in need and the is causing her discomfort with the decision she made.
One of patients at the clinic, the handsome, famous tennis player David Lorenzo does catch Lucy's eye and she does enjoy his company. He makes Lucy forget about her worries with work and he also puts a smile on her face.
Lucy finds herself drawn to David and its not long before she is falling for him. Lucy is worried though that she is being drawn into a world of wealth and excess which goes against the ethics she has. She has a big decision to make. Should she go back to working with Doctors Without Borders where she can help the most vulnerable of patients, or does her future lay in the Siena sunshine with David.
It is going to be a difficult decision.
I loved this book and found it gave me some much needed sunshine. The book is written well so that it has a natural flow to it and with the description of the beautiful scenery of Italy, it really does fee like you a transported away to enjoy Italy too.
I enjoyed getting to know Lucy. She is a very kind and loving person who just wants to be able to do her best for those who she feels need the most help. As the story progresses you get an insight of why this means so much to Lucy and why she has worked so hard.
Getting to know David was difficult at first, as after an injury to his shoulder his life changes and he is no longer able to compete. This has a huge affect on him and he hides away. He is also getting over his wife leaving him. It is lovely to see him open up the more time he spends with Lucy.
There is a cast of supporting characters Witi the book who all help Lucy settle into life in Italy and who become firm friends.
This book has a wonderful way of injecting some much needed sunshine into your life and taking you away from all that is happening in the world at the moment. Escapism at its best and definitely a great addition to your summer reading.
I’m a man. And a pretty old man as well. I did languages at university a long time ago and then lived and worked in France and Switzerland before going to Italy for seven years as a teacher of English. My Italian wife and I then came back to the UK with our little daughter (now long-since grown up) where I ran a big English language school for many years. We now live in a sleepy little village in Devonshire. I’ve been writing almost all my life but it was only seven years ago that I finally managed to find a publisher who liked my work enough to offer me my first contract.
The fact that I am now writing romantic comedy is something I still find hard to explain. My early books were thrillers and historical novels. Maybe it’s because there are so many horrible things happening in the world today that I feel I need to do my best to provide something to cheer my readers up. My books provide escapism to some gorgeous locations, even if travel to them is currently difficult.
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