I am so delighted to be part of the blog tour for this enjoyable summer read. Many thanks to Rachel of Rachel’s Random Resources and Boldwood Books for this opportunity.
About the book and more:
A Vintage Vacation
Clover Harrington might be sixty-one, but she’s still bossing it in the corporate world and can still run rings around her younger colleagues. And then she is made redundant….
Devastated and now suddenly the wrong side of sixty Clover doesn’t know what to do with her life or her corporate wardrobe! What does she wear if not red lippy and a power suit?! Rather than offer her any support, her partner, Jack announces he’s off on a golfing weekend, leaving Clover completely adrift.
Desperate to get away from it all, Clover decides to visit her cousin Zoe at her small taverna in the gorgeous Italian Lakes. There she can rest and recuperate and plan the next stage of her life.
Until Clover’s eighty-year-old mother, Eleanor decides to turn up for the holiday too! Instead of gentle ambles around the lake, Eleanor seems more interested in late night poker and swigging Prosecco and Clover can’t quite believe her mum is having more fun than she is. But as the saying goes – if you can’t beat em, join em!
But is Clover brave enough to live La Dolce Vita?
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Author Bio –
Maddie Please is the #1 bestselling author of novels including The Old Ducks’ Club and Sisters Behaving Badly. Having had a career as a dentist and now lives in rural Devon where she enjoys box sets, red wine and Christmas. She will be taking a new direction in her writing for Boldwood with joyous tales of older women.
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My thoughts:
I was intrigued by this title as soon as I saw the cover. It just looked like such an inviting summer read.
I enjoyed that A Vintage Vacation features a protagonist who is sixty-one years old. It is a nice change from twenty and thirty somethings.
Unfortunately, Clover is made redundant. This is understandably very upsetting. Sadly (and frustratingly), Clover’s partner is off on his own vacation, leaving her quite adrift. Will her life stand still? No, it won’t! She decides to spend time with a cousin in the Italian Lakes. What will she find there? One thing will be her eighty-plus year old mother but there will be more than this. Watch (happily) as Clover comes to embrace life.
A Vintage Vacation, a title I love for its several meanings, is a delightful novel. Highly recommended to those who enjoy women’s fiction.
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