By: Kerry Fisher
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC and allowing me a stop on the book tour!
BLURB:
75-year-old Ronnie has made it her mission to help women of a certain age rediscover themselves. The owner of a palazzo in Rome, she has left her troubled past behind and reinvented herself in the most beautiful city in the world. And now she helps other women to do the same. Renting out her spare apartment for three months at a time, Ronnie invites her guests to take on a series of challenges that will help them to embrace beauty and joy, to rediscover themselves and to live their lives to the full.
But Ronnie’s confident exterior hides heartbreak and closely-held secrets. Why did she leave England all those years ago and what was she running away from? How did a woman who helps others to fix their shattered lives become estranged from her very own daughter, Nadia, who has left Rome and moved to England to escape her?
As Ronnie welcomes her latest guest to the Rome apartment, Nadia appears unannounced on her doorstep – pregnant and alone. Ronnie is desperate for a chance to put things right and to be part of her precious grandchild’s life, but in order to fix her family, she will have to dig up secrets from her past that could risk destroying everything…
MY REVIEW:
This is the second installment in the Italian Escape series and this book did NOT disappoint. While the concept of the book was the same as the first one – a British woman comes to stay in the Rome apartment to try and look at life a different way, there was so much more to this one. This book really focuses on the mother-daughter relationship between Ronnie and Nadia. We come to understand Ronnie more and learn more about her background and what made her the way that she is. There is also a surprise twist in the book which made the book even better! This book really touched my heart because my relationship with my mother isn’t the best – she has never accepted some of her shortcomings. And she doesn’t understand my way of parenting as I am trying to break generational trauma. This book gives one hope that being open and honest can help mend that relationship. It really touched my heart. I really hope that there is a third installment of this series. The author did hint at one a bit, and I’m looking forward to it!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kerry Fisher is an internationally bestselling author of women’s contemporary fiction, including The Woman I Was Before, The Silent Wife (USA Today bestseller) and Other People’s Marriages, as well as a non-fiction memoir, Take My Hand. She was born in Peterborough, studied French and Italian at the University of Bath and spent many years living in Spain, Italy and France. After returning to England to work as a journalist, she eventually abandoned real life stories for the secrets of fictional families. She now lives in Surrey with her husband, with an intermittent empty nest as her two young adult children come and go.
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