One Hot Summer * Kat French

One Hot Summer by Kat French 

Alice McBride’s husband Brad is super famous, totally gorgeous . . . and having an affair with his co-star. And now it’s splashed across all the newspapers.

After kicking Brad out, Alice decides to rent out her beloved home for the summer. And the last person she expects to arrive at Borne Manor is a sexy cowboy called Robinson.

Alice can't quite believe it when her husband, the ever so wonderful Brad McBride sits across from her at their breakfast bar and declares that the magazines are true: He's been having an affair with his co-star, Felicity-bloody-Shaw. 

Hoping to re-kindle their marriage, Brad tries everything possible and so does Alice, she starts by throwing him out of Bourne Mannor along with his belongings.  Her marriage may be over and there may be a fight on her hands, but one things for certain, she won't go down without a fight to protect her lovely home. Even if she has to do it from the proximity of her garden. 

Robinson Duff has built a big name for himself over the years, he has thousands of fans and many to thank for him being a well known country singer in Nashville, but when he's betrayed by his wife and best friend, Robinson needs a break and fast. Leaving behind his friends, manager and his music. 

Retreating to the British countryside, he takes residence in Bourne Mannor as a rented tenant, much to his knowledge that there's a little woodland fairy living in the bottom of "his" garden. 

With the eccentric Bourne Seven in tow, also known as the BS Society, things start to look up for Alice as she starts to work on her own Glampsite in the back garden, complete with a yurt, boathouse, gypsy caravan, a romantic tree house and of course the airstream caravan. 

As the summer starts to heat up, so does Robinson and Alice's relationship, taking shape in every way possible and everywhere imaginable in the gardens, though there are some who have other ideas.

One Hot Summer by Kat French, is a wonderful summer read! I did actually read this in the summer this year but never got round to writing up the review, so here I am going through them all one by one. I adore Kat French they're ever so funny and bubbly, unlike her other books under the name of Kitty French, which are more alluring shall we say? 

I loved all the characters in this book, the story line was brilliant and quite different, Alice is a little firecracker and once pushed she won't let anything stand in her way, I think I loved her character because she reminded me of a bit of myself in some ways.

The whole story is brilliant, filled with laughter and humour in places and the good old "will they? Won't they?" type of which, I never get tired of, as well as the love/hate relationship between Alice and Robinson. It's full of friendship and doing what you want to do. 

I can't wait till Kat French brings out another book! 

I will be giving this book a 8.5 out of 10

The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane * Ellen Berry

The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane by Ellen Berry

Kitty Cartwright has always solved her problems in the kitchen. Her cookbooks are her life, and there isn’t an issue that ‘Cooking with Aspic’ can’t fix. 

Her only wish is that she had a book entitled ‘Rustling Up Dinner When Your Husband Has Left You’.

When Kitty's daughter, Della, inherits her mothers beloved cookbooks, she didn't realise just how many her mother owned. The the boxes piled high in every space imaginable in the house, things couldn't come at a worse time. 

With her only daughter getting ready to fly the nest off to college, she could do with a bit of comfort and support. Though her husband has become a bit distant and doesn't seem to care about her, or the fact that their daughter is leaving them! 

Coming to the conclusion that she should do something that makes her happy for a change, Della decides to open up a cookbook shop, not just any ordinary book shop, one that only sells cookbooks. With her wild and wonderful imagination she is soon off to look at the old shop on Rosemary Lane.  

Whilst all her friends and and even her husband think that her idea is totally mad, her daughter seems to think it's a wonderful idea and that's all Della needs to get her dreams up and going. 

Filling the shop sky high with all her mothers old cookbooks, Della knows that they will bring joy to many people as they have brought joy to her through the years. Though there are a few bumps in the road that she needs to watch out for, and will the store pick up the way that she hopes it will? 

With the grand opening drawing closer to its deadline, Della must think who and what she needs to put first, including the stranger who keeps coming into the shop.  

The Bookshop on Rosemary Lane by Ellen Berry, is such a lovely read, I had just recently finished another book and was looking through the ebooks and I can't remember if this was a freebie or quite cheap. It doesn't really matter to me, but I always have a look at what there is because you never know when you'll find little gems like this one. 

The book started off with Della's daughter who was leaving for college, which around about the same time I started reading this book, my younger brother was also heading off to Uni down in London. So my mum and dad felt the same way as Della and her husband, and in fact was pretty much the same.

My mum worrying and being a bit sad, my dad being worried but not really showing it.  So the way that Ellen had portrayed those characters where pretty much bang on. 

There was a bit of romance in the book but a lot less than what I thought, but that's a good thing as I found it more of a book about finding yourself and doing things that make you happy, regardless of how anyone else may feel about it. I would happily read more books by Ellen Berry. 

I will give this book 7 out 10