Book Review - Note To Self by Anna Bell

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Title: Note To Self

Author: Anna Bell

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgaley

Publisher: HQ

Publication Date: 23rd June 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

It’s never too late to follow your heart.

One summer’s day seventeen years ago Edie and Joel meet.

Their connection is instant and a friendship is born, although Edie can’t help but wish for more. But just as she builds up the courage to lay her heart on the line, one night changes everything…

Edie’s moved on from the heartbreak of years ago. So the last thing she expects to receive on her thirty-fifth birthday is an email… from her eighteen-year-old self. As more emails arrive, she starts to remember what – or rather who – she left behind.

Following her own advice, Edie heads back to the place where it all began, and finds her path unexpectedly crossing with Joel’s once more. Could this finally be their chance at love? Or are some things better left in the past?

Another really fabulous concept from Anna Bell that has had me smiling and really happily reading. 

I loved the idea that you could send yourself emails quite far into the future, and that they would give you goals to achieve in them, sort of like a bucket list but from yourself.  These emails that Edie sent to herself 17 years ago, start arriving quite suddenly and catapult her back to what was the best but worst summer of her life. 

From them she starts to reconnect with the friends she has that summer, as well as is challenging herself to be more open to opportunities generally.  So we see her taking on a reading with children volunteer scheme and also becoming put of the Impenserators which are moments that are very amusing! 

These emails are a catalyst for so much change for the positive in Edie's life, and I relished seeing it.  I also thoroughly enjoyed the chapters written in the past, from Edie's life 17 years previous, and seeing her as a teen working in a summer camp for the summer.  So much of which I could relate to and although we know early on how that summer ends, the lead up to exactly what may have led to the event was well worth discovering. 

I loved seeing Edie change and her confidence grow as the book progresses.  

It's a really enjoyable story that I romped through, thoroughly enjoying my time spent between the pages. 

Thank you to HQ and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.