Still stuck in Lockdown Land (Day 102 or thereabouts!) very few of us are getting away this summer. However, through reading books I have travelled to Malta with Sue Moorcroft, USA with Michelle Obama, places in the UK and more recently to France with Tilly Tennant. No planes, no suitcases, no foreign currency. Just me, my back garden, a sun lounger and birds tweeting.
There is power in reading - getting lost in imagination, escaping the reality of Covid19; people flooding beaches and leaving litter behind, riots, stabbings, murders and all that is bad in the news at the moment can be blotted out as you are transported to another place, another world, another time.
Published by Bookouture, The Summer Getaway sees two families collide whilst staying in neighbouring holiday homes for a week. The connections reveal secrets, joy, love, fun, excitement and fear.
Romance blossoms for the single parents and their teenage girls form special bonds too. Ashley and Haydon's relationships turn into real complications. Being at a birthday party for a 100 year old French lady turns into a nightmare and opens a can of worms. The teenagers go missing and caring family and friends help the search which is fraught with anxious thoughts and tense with fears.
Leaving France for the UK brings about a dilemma of how the relationships will continue but the reader is left feeling sure of a happy ending.
Well done Tilly Tennant - a lovely novel that is hard to leave behind. Where will I go next, I wonder?
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