A Week to Remember
Esther Campion
Reviewed by Helen
This was a delight to read, beautifully written with feeling and emotion, a lovely refurbished stone farmhouse Lizzy O’s on the coast of Ireland and is about to open as a guesthouse and take in its first guests, two couples and three singles arrive all with different reasons for being there, this week should help them all work out some problems as they get to know each other and the hosts Ellen and Gerry, clear your calendar when you pick this one up because you won’t want to put it down.
Aisling and Mick Fitzgerald have been gifted this holiday from Mick’s family for their wedding anniversary and Mick’s fortieth birthday which are on the same day, they are Irish but now live in Tasmania a visit home is always good and with Mick’s mother Lilian in Tasmania to be with their children all should be good, except Aisling is keeping a secret from her loving husband, which could destroy their marriage.
Declan Byrne is a dentist who is separated from his wife and has not been looking after himself very well at all and his office manager decides it is time for a holiday and where better to spend it than the village he remembers from his childhood.
Katie Daly is returning to West Cork, Ireland for the first time in thirty five years to help care for her Mammy she left home at the age of seventeen in a cloud of hurt and secrecy and now finds her emotions rising up and maybe confronting what happened all those years ago will be for the best.
Mia Montgomery is Australian but living in Ireland with her scientist husband Harry, but life has not been good lately and Mia is wondering whether there is a future for them when she decides that a holiday on her own while Harry is away will be the best thing to help her work out what to do.
Then there is Prue and Edwina who are on their honeymoon and all is good and happy with them.
These strangers spend one week in winter together in such a beautiful setting is there something in the air or just opening up to each other that helps all of them to work their way through the problems that they all arrived with. There were lots of happy smiles from this reader when I got to the end of this book, a book that I didn’t want to end, I could stay a Lizzie O’s for a longer holiday. MS Campion has bought to life these characters and made them easy to be friends, I was cheering them on through their journeys to happiness.
I did love catching up with Ellen and Gerry who I had met in MS Campions two previous novels and again thank you MS Campion for another keeper, I loved it and would highly recommend it.
Thank you to Hachette AUS for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
Expected publication: February 23rd 2021 by Hachette Australia
