And Now You're Back: The most heart-warming and romantic read of the year!

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The things they have in common is that they both live in Elliscombe, are in their last year at school and are both in Venice for Didi’s friend Layla’s 18 th birthday celebrations.

Jill Mansell's books have sold over ten million copies and her titles include: Making your Mind up, Fast Friends, Good at Games, Sheer Mischief and Solo, among many others. Sometimes it dragged on a little, and I’d wanted to have only Didi’s and Shay’s POV instead of others like Rosa’s and Layla’s. However, Mansell's touch with character and description makes the book come alive, and all the subplots and secondary characters are unique enough to make you care about them while Shay and Didi flounder away. It is one of those books that quietly drew me in and before I knew it, I turned the last page, the bubble popped and I realized that I had read it in one sitting and it was suddenly 2am.They were both happily getting on with their lives, but find the spark is still there between them no matter how much they try to ignore it. There are wonderfully flawed characters in this book that I care about even now after I have finished the book days ago. I will say that most of what I read would be considered a romantic cliche but hey, women like that stuff.

Now both Didi and Shane have to face the problems from their pasts and find the truth about the incident which forced Shane move away and broke Didi’s heart! From the beloved author of IT STARTED WITH A SECRET comes a fabulous new novel about love, friendship and finding the way to your best life. The business she set up for herself sounds rather unique, definitely bespoke and I wonder if anyone has ever come up with this in the real world. This is the first Jill Mansell book I’ve read and I enjoyed learning about Shay and Didi’s teenage romance, the cause of their break up and what happened when they met 13 years later.

So the plot is everything but a read like this needs characters to match and of course Mansell delivers. There were some funny parts too and one of my highlights was Rosa climbing over the wall of her old house with Red. They had some magical moments while there and started their relationship and all was going well until an incident causes everything to change. I enjoyed reading every bit of this lovely book, even the parts that had me a bit anxious, since I knew Jill Mansell would have written a “happily ever after ending”.

Als ik de achterflap lees, gaat het boek voornamelijk over Didi, maar in het verhaal leek het af en toe alsof andere personages meer aan het woorden waren. Totdat een schandaal ervoor zorgde dat Shay halsoverkop vertrok, hij haar hart brak en zij hem nooit meer zag. Something terrible happened to pull them apart, however, and it's 13 years later when they reconnect. Let Jill Mansell whisk you away on this escape from reality read, and enclose you with the warmth and happiness of her words.Fast forward thirteen years and we follow Didi and Shay as they navigate their lives, we learn what really happened thirteen years ago and discover whether they can overcome their obstacles. With Shay and Red back in Elliscombe, certain people are reminded of the unsolved crime that drove Shay away, and secrets they have been keeping for thirteen years. But Hillcrest is run down, unliveable, so instead of a well-earned vacation, Shay is restoring it, and living in a luxury suite in the Wickham while he does. Jill’s personal favourite amongst her novels is Three Amazing Things About You, which is about cystic fibrosis and organ donation; to her great delight, many people have joined the organ donor register as a direct result of reading this novel.