A Holiday Read

 

I choose books for various reasons, recommended to me, read about it on someone's blog, seen reports about it in the media or an author I know. This book had all these but I nearly gave up on it.

Two families, the Londoners,  who have holiday homes in the West Country. Their homes are right by each other in a cliff top region, where the beach is just a stones throw away. 

Idyllic?? It should have been but there was trouble in paradise.. the locals objected to the fact, these holiday homes were empty for the greater part of the year, while local people couldn't afford to buy a property there.

I had to re-read the first few chapters, because there were so many names to take in, the two sets of parents, their children and the children's partners and then there were the locals who were actively making their lives very difficult (NJFA=Not just for August) 

But I carried on and there was a lot more than locals throwing tomato soup at the arriving cars and sticking up posters, the holidaying families themselves had problems and when there was a murder, everyone was a suspect.

Lots of happenings, deceit and jealousy, in fighting, the simmering of ever increasing tension between the Londoners themselves, kept me turning the pages.

Worth a read.. I liked the way each chapter was a character's story.

Twists and turns and an ending I would never have guessed... Try it for yourself, the author Louise Candlish is one of my fabourite  authours          

                     Chrisxx