Remember Me at Willoughby Close by Kate HewittMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I gave up on the last book in the series because I couldn't engage with the characters and I found the vast range of issues suffered by all the characters in the books was becoming unrealistic and tiresome so it was with some trepidation that I bought this book.
I needn't have worried, Kate Hewitt has returned to her old sparkling form with this novel.
Laura Neale's husband Tim died 15 months ago in a car accident. She has moved to Willoughby Close to get away from the memories associated with their old house, to down-size to something cheaper, and to be closer to Tim's parents. Her son Sam is 11 years old and seems relatively unaffected as long as he can play Minecraft, her daughter Maggie is older and angry with everything, despite agreeing to the move she hates everything about Wychwood-on-Lea.
When Laura gets asked to see the headmaster of the local school her mind immediately goes to the worst place, but it turns out that the insanely attractive headmaster James Hill just wants Sam to set up a Minecraft club after school.
Laura and James are attracted to one-another but is it too soon? He is nine years younger than her, is that too much of a gap when she is over 40 and he wants children? What will the other mums at the school gate say? What will her children say?
This was warm and cosy, although we see other residents of the Close past and present it doesn't feel like the cast of thousands that it has seemed in other books.
Overall, this was a great finale to the two series of books and I look forward to seeing what is in store for the Close in its next incarnation.
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