Book info

• Title Villa of Sun and Secrets
• Author Jennifer Bohnet
• Year 2019
• Genre Romance

Carla Sullivan’s 50th birthday is fast approaching when her whole world is turned upside down. Discovering her feckless husband is having yet another affair and following her mother’s death, she is in need of an escape. Finding an envelope addressed to her mother’s estranged sister Josette in the South of France gives Carla the perfect plan. Seizing the moment, she packs her bags and heads to Antibes to seek out the enigma known as Tante Josette. But as the two women begin to forge a tentative relationship, family secrets start to unravel, forcing Carla to question her life as she has always known it.

Thoughts

This is one of those super quick and easy holiday reads, I think it must have been a free Apple book of the week as I don’t know that I would have specifically picked it up. There’s a lot of family drama in here, lots of secrets and twists and turns to unravel. It’s a little bit drawn out, particularly towards the end when you can really start predicting what’s happening, but it’s easy and unchallenging and a bit of a salve on the brain.

Rating: 3 / 5