Coming Home to Winter Island by Jo ThomasMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Ruby is on the brink of possible success as a singer when her voice fails her on the night someone from A&R was coming to watch her band. She originally intends to spend Christmas and the New Year at a vocal retreat in Tenerife to rest and recuperate but a mysterious phone call from a solicitor on a remote Scottish Island persuades her to temporarily postpone her plans.
When RUby gets to the island she discovers that her long estranged grandfather (her deceased father's father) has Alzheimer's and needs to go into a nursing home. However, his rather decrepit but still impressive 'Big House' will need to be sold in order to pay the fees. Ruby thinks all she needs to do is authorise the solicitor to sell the house and then swan off to Tenerife, unfortunately there is a sitting tenant, who refuses to move.
Together Ruby and the sitting tenant, Lachlan, must coax her grandfather to remember the secret formula for his award-winning gin, so that the house can be sold as a going concern rather than a White Elephant, and all before Michaelmas, when the promised place at the nursing home will be given to someone else.
Reuniting family, a small island, a lost recipe, a tight-knit community, a taciturn Scot and a deadline, what more could you ask?
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