Love Me Do by Lindsey KelkMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
When Phoebe Chapman's love life implodes (turning up at her ex's new girlfriend's hen night) she hightails it out of Nottingham and her job as a greetings card copywriter to stay with her big sister Suzanne in LA for two weeks. Unfortunately, there's a crisis at work and her sister needs to go to Seattle immediately, leaving Phoebe all alone in a small mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
At first Phoebe thinks there's a pervert spying on her with binoculars while she's lying by the pool, but it turns out that the half-naked man is her nearest neighbour and an avid birdwatcher (twitcher). The neighbour, Ren, is here to renovate his grandfather's house before his family sell it to a real estate developer, something that Ren bitterly resents.
Phoebe's sister has fully embraced the LA lifestyle, so the next morning she is rudely awakened by Suzanne's personal trainer Bel, one of the most staggeringly beautiful women Phoebe has ever seen. When they run into Ren at a local restaurant Bel confesses she is madly in love with Ren but gets so tongue-tied she becomes a gibbering idiot every time he's nearby. So Phoebe decides to Cyrano de Bergerac Bel and Ren, two such beautiful people are destined to be together and if her writing skills can be used to woo Ren, so much the better.
Of course all too soon Phoebe realises that she too has fallen for Ren, they have so much in common. For his part, Ren is confused, he's fallen deeply in love with the woman who wrote him such a wonderful letter, but in person Bel seems a bit shallow and not interested in the same things as he is.
Throw in a reclusive former Hollywood film star whose mail has a disconcerting habit of being delivered to Suzanne's house by mistake and you have all the makings of a sweet, funny, romantic comedy with a splash of Hollywood glamour.
Loved it, entirely predictable but great execution. Kept me reading avidly.
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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