I have to start by saying how much I love Jill Mansell's books and I wait in earnest for her yearly book release. This year, I was lucky enough to get a preview copy of the book via Netgalley so I didn't have to wait quite so long.
This year the main character in the book is Hallie, who has cystic fibrosis and who also runs her own website called threethingsaboutyou.com where her readers write in with their problems and Hallie does her best to give them advice.
However, as always, there are a multitude of characters in the book who all get linked up eventually and the thing that keeps the reader reading is finding out the link between them, as well as finding out if they all live happily ever after.
So there's also Tash and the story of how she meets and falls in love with the man of her dreams, and there is Flo, who also does the same thing.
As usual, Jill really builds up her characters from the beginning so the reader can really empathise with them and enjoy the ups and downs of their journey along the way.
The thing I love so much about Jill Mansell's books is that they are very realistic. They are about ordinary people with ordinary lives and then something special happens to them which makes their life complete, and that is very heartwarming. However, I must warn you now that there were some very sad bits in the book as well, which came all at once and nearly made me want to stop reading it. I was enjoying the heartwarming stories and then all of a sudden, things changed.
But that is quite true of life itself and there was quite a strong message in this book - that life is too short and that you need to grab every opportunity that you can and don't waste the short lives that we all have.
And so, once again, Jill Mansell has pulled it out of the bag, and now I have to wait for another year for her next novel. I get so engrossed in her books that I read them far too quickly and then get a bit sad when they are over! But I urge you to go and read this and take from it what you will.
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