Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsOk
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2024
This was a new author to me and after reading the synopsis I was looking forward to starting the book. We were introduced to all the characters who going to be living in the newly developed Bridgewater House. I understood the need to hear about all these people but I found it quite dull reading, sadly my heart was neither warmed nor uplifted.
I was perplexed by Louise whose husband cheated, then traded her in for a younger model. So that she wouldn’t be accused of going after his money in the divorce, she said they should halve their assets. The fact that she had to feed, clothe and house three children and a dog on half the money she had been used to seems to have escaped her. She had to move from her 5 bedroom detached Edwardian home into a 3 bedroomed flat in Bridgewater Hall, which had a small garden and little money to pay the bills.
Mollie, the ageing film star was a lovely character, if a little dizzy. Her director husband had just died and she was finding it difficult when he wasn’t around. Next there was a young American woman, writing her thesis while trying to get pregnant. She was a rather naive 25 year old but her husband was in his 40s and she wanted their child before he was too old. She struggled to understand the differences between the US and the UK, how to treat staff, how to socialise.
There were many other characters, some likeable others not so much, like life I suppose, but it wasn’t interesting reading. I have ordered another book by this author and I’m hoping for better things.