A Summer Fling by Milly JohnsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
When Christie joins as the new Bakery manager in the office of a national supermarket group she finds herself with a team of four women. To her surprise, despite having worked together g=for years these women are very closed off and don't seem to interact with each other, Christie will change all of that ...
Anna is approaching forty. Her boyfriend left her while she was ill in hospital, leaving a note on the kitchen table. He said there was no-one else, but Anna has seen him cosying up to his eighteen year old assistant at the barber's shop where he works. She feels old, fat, ugly, and unlovable.
Carol is in her mid-fifties. Unable to have children of her own, she married a widower with three children and loved them like they were her own. But now they have left home her life seems interminably drab and her husband treats her like a housekeeper. The only thing keeping her going is work and she has refused early retirement twice already.
Dawn is in her early twenties. She is busy planning her wedding to her boyfriend Calum. An orphan, she loves Calum's loud family, probably more than she loves him. But it seems that nothing she does is ever right for his family who accuse her of being snobby, or for Calum who accuses her of nagging.
Raychel is in her thirties. Happily married to Ben, she is the quietest of all the women. There is some secret about her and Ben, they've moved from Newcastle but seem to be forever looking over their shoulders.
Dark secrets, a brooding fashion designer, a TV show, a charming Canadian musician, family drama, this book has it all.
A lovely story weaving together four women's stories.
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