Old Friends Reunited by Maddie Please
Old Friends Reunited by Maddie Please
Divorced and on a deadline, bestselling novelist Bea Pinkerton has a serious case of writer's block. With her agent breathing down her neck, Bea will do ANYTHING to avoid writing another word.
So an invite to a reunion with her old school friends at a beautiful chateau in France, is Bea’s perfect chance to escape. Surely here, relaxing with old friends and drinking cold fizz, Bea will find inspiration?
But as soon as Bea arrives, she realises this is not going to be the peaceful getaway she anticipated. Her old school friends Gin and Audrie are in various states of marital distress and to top it off a camera crew has arrived to film the goings on at Chateau De St Cyr. Far from being calm, the trip is total chaos!
Thank goodness for Bea's new French neighbour Laurent Sinclair - handsome, charming and perhaps exactly the romantic muse she needs to get her mojo back.
But is Bea brave enough to take a second chance at love at her age?
Perhaps with a little help from her friends...
Old Friends Reunited Maddie Please
My Review
Working in a chateau this summer, I’m on a mission to read as many books set in chateaux as I can, and Old Friends Reunited ticked a lot of boxes for me.
Take three old school friends at a time in their lives where they are wondering “what comes next”, one chateau in France and a little bit of French magic, and you have the perfect combination to help them find their way.
Bea, Audrie and Gin are of an age where their insecurities have risen to the surface and begun to cloud their judgment. For Bea, a summer in France seems the perfect escape from her publisher as she struggles to fall in love with her latest, and long overdue, novel. Audrie needs her old friends around her as she’s thrown into a panic by her husband’s recent behaviour and Gin is searching for a future following (another) divorce.
This book was hilariously funny as we followed them through the highs and lows of matrimonial quarrels, the antics of their adult children and the tentative steps toward a new relationship. I loved that although lots has changed since their school days, being back together reignited their spark and the silliness that had made them best friends all those years ago. The film crew popping up at the most comical moments (of which there were plenty), just added to the chaos of their summer at the chateau.
Whenever I picked this book up it was an escape from daily life that never failed to raise my spirits and make me laugh. It was a pleasure to witness the changes in their self-confidence as they realised there was still plenty of life left in them and how important it was to embrace it and live it to the full. I might have laughed at the funny bits, but this book also made my heart smile, especially when Bea realises that there is more to her future than she thought.
If you are looking for a pick-me-up summer read to take on holiday, Old Friends Reunited should be top of your list.
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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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