Welcome Me to Willoughby Close by Kate HewittMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Emily David is forced to move to Willoughby Chase when her boss Henry Trent inherits Willoughby Manor and decides to start a charitable foundation. A natural introvert, Emily is very set in her ways and enjoys the anonymity of living in London. At first she is horrified by the overly-friendly overtures from her boss' wife Alice and her circle of friends and their insistence that she join them for drinks in the local pub.
In fact the only person who doesn't seem to be friendly is the owner of the local down-market boozer, Owen Jones. he dislikes Henry and assumes that Emily has had a privileged middle-class upbringing, how wrong could he be?
Part of Emily's reticence is that she doesn't want anyone to know about her family secrets, but circumstances mean that she has to let people into her circle of trust and strangely it is the surly welsh pub owner Owen that she opens up to.
I enjoyed this, and I have loved reading the Willoughby Chase books, but there was a point in this book when Emily realises that everyone has burdens that others don't know about, and she lists out the issues of everyone in her circle of friends, when it seems as though everyone in the small village comes from a broken home and it just felt unrealistic.
Minor niggles aside, this was a fun, albeit predictable, read in a cosy series which doesn't shy away from addressing some tough issues.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher Tule in return for an honest review.
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