Oh this was tedious. It was a fairly good plot, which I quickly picked up on, but at 457 pages, a lot of the dialogue was superfluous.
It's summer when Elm Hill Lido opens, having stood empty for years. For Natalie Steele - wife, mother, teacher - it offers freedom from the tightly controlled routines of work and family. Especially when it leads her to Lara Channing, a charismatic former actress with a lavish bohemian lifestyle, who seems all too happy to invite Natalie into her elite circle.
Soon Natalie is spending long days at the pool, socialising with new friends and basking in a popularity she didn't know she'd been missing. Real life, and the person she used to be, begins to feel very far away.
But is such a change in fortunes too good to be true? Why are dark memories of a summer long ago now threatening to surface? And, without realising, could Natalie have been swept dangerously out of her depth?
∼ Happy Reading∼
Polly x
How disappointing. I find I'm regularly abandoning books at the moment. I don't know whether I haven't the patience to persevere with them, or they're just truly poor!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I finished it.
DeleteI bet those new friends are setting her up to take the fall for a murder or something!
ReplyDeleteNo nothing like that Debra, its about revenge
DeleteOh my goodness that really was a long book, with an interesting sounding plot (and I’ll try anything once) unfortunately my library only has it as an audiobook so I’ll be skipping this one. Good on ya for persevering though.
ReplyDeleteOh and the PJs aren’t ‘real silk’, just made from a material (? rayon) that feels that way.
Thank you Cathy😊
DeleteOh dear! 457 pages!
ReplyDeleteHave a happy Sunday...
Titti
Thank you Titti
DeleteMay has come. It's nice to read books outdoors.
ReplyDeleteIt is RC, and it's warm enough for me to have breakfast outside while I read 😊
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