An engaging read with a fresh summer feel.
Nevertheless, it’s a serious book too (but not so much to weigh you down).
It begins when main character Ali Morris is grieving – her mother died two years ago, and her husband left her on the one-year anniversary. She organizes people’s home as a business, but her own is falling apart. She gets the kids ready for school but barely thinks about what she wears. So she’s not in a good place and not thinking about romance until… she meets someone in an almost-cliched but definitely still cute meet-cute. That someone is Ethan, who has good reason to hang around for the summer, but who really needs to head off afterwards…
I think this book worked for me particularly as I’m a similar age to the main character and could easily empathise with what she was going through. The romance was sweet and I believed in Ali’s inner turmoil and the internal insights she discovered just by allowing herself to love again. I wasn’t sure if I missed a final reveal about the ex’s secrets but maybe I was just reading too quickly by that point!
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