This book was good company for a very hot summers night where sleep was proving illusive, but I didn’t feel it really lived up to the reviews I’d read about it. It’s basically a narrative of Claire’s summer holiday following a very personal life trauma. It gently winds its way through her mental recovery from a physical trauma, with a bit of romance dropped in for good measure. Caroline Roberts deals sensitively with a subject that many of us have directly or indirectly experienced and it’s lovely to see such a topic talked about so personally. It’s very readable - an easy beach read, but I found myself predicting the outcome almost from the start. It’s predictable and somewhat contrived, it would have been easy to skip out three quarters of the book and still understand what’s happening... in an Eastenders kind of way. That being said, you’d miss the point I think the author is trying to portray: Slow down, notice the moment, feel the emotions, understand your reactions, look for the way ahead; in that way she achieved her purpose. I’d love to live in the beautiful (perhaps not quite so quirky) cottage with beautiful views of the sea and people being people. The book left me with a warm feeling... although perhaps that wasn’t so welcome on such a scorcher of a night ( )