Coming Home to Holly Close Farm by Julie HoustonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
When Charlie Maddison's boyfriend Dominic turns out to be married with children she not only loses a boyfriend but also her home (his wife's flat) and her job (Dominic's wife and father-in-law are majority shareholders in the architectural practice where Charlie and Dominic work. So she returns home to Yorkshire with five bin bags full of her belongings to stay with her parents.
Charlie's great-grandmother Madge has had a fall and is temporarily in a retirement home to convalesce. When a young couple approach her about buying her home it transpires that Madge has secretly owned a property called Holly Close Farm, but no-one has lived there for over sixty years.
Told through flashbacks, this is the story of Madge's wartime romance, lies, and betrayal.
The blurb makes this sound like its about Charlie's romance, but that is very muted and almost an afterthought. The main focus is on the slowly unfolding story of how Madge came to own Holly Close Farm and why it remained empty for so long. The trouble is, wartime romances are a bit cliched, I've already read several books with similar romances and therefore there wasn't enough to keep me interested without a stronger romance for Charlie.
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