The Village Café in the Loire by Gillian Harvey
The Village Café in the Loire by Gillian Harvey
High-flyer Becky Thorne cannot believe what she’s being told. She doesn’t need to be signed off for burnout! Life has been a bit chaotic lately, that’s all. As if dealing with her enviable job and permanent meddling from her mother aren’t enough, she’s also inherited a café in the Loire from an estranged great-aunt, complete with sitting tenant who refuses to budge.
But nobody stands in Becky’s way! Ignoring her best friend Amber’s advice, she decides to storm over to France and sort the tenant out. Then she can finally get the café sold and jump back on the career ladder.
What she doesn’t count on is the tenant being Pascale, who is six feet of tall, dark, handsome and extremely grumpy about her plans for change. Not to mention the village and the secrets it holds about her past.
Becky’s path to success is all planned out. But the Loire has a magic she might not be able to resist…
The Village Café in the Loire by Gillian Harvey
My review
It was a delight to be back in a Gillian Harvey novel wondering just where she will take me this time. Despite this being the ninth book of hers that I have read, the variety of characters, locations and emotional situations that she creates means there is always a surprise in store and this book was no exception.
Becky was a tough one to love at the beginning. Her life was fast-paced, and success was all that mattered, so much so that taking the time to notice what was going on for those around her didn’t register on her radar. She had the job of her dreams and thanks to the inheritance of a café in the Loire, she now had the money for the flat of her dreams in London too. When things began to crumble in her perfect life, sitting still wasn’t an option, so she arrived in France, a whirlwind of energy who was determined to sell the café and grab the money she needed as soon as possible.
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Life in the little town of Vaudrelle in the Loire ticked over at a much slower pace than Becky was used to. She had no option but to put her brakes on and learn to slow down, allowing long-buried emotions the headspace she had denied them for years. Once she got over the initial frustration, she discovered there was something rather special about the café her great aunt Maud had run and the life she had made for herself in France.
Learning Maud’s secret and the conditions behind her inheritance was a wake-up call that led Becky to rethink certain parts of her life. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, laughed at a lot of the ‘French’ situations Becky found herself in and loved that a bit of rural French magic wove its way into her life.
This is another heart lifting novel from Gillian Harvey to add to your summer reading list.
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Gillian Harvey
Author Bio
Gillian Harvey is an author and freelance writer who lives in Norfolk. Her novels, including the bestselling A Year at the French Farmhouse and The Riviera House Swap, are often set in France, where she lived for 14 years.
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