Book Review - Promise Me by Jill Mansell - #BlogTour #HolidayReading Mexico

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Title: Promise Me

Author: Jill Mansell

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Headline Review

Publication Date: 19th January 2023

Rating: 5 Stars

One minute Lou is happily employed, with a perfect flat. The next, her home and job have gone. Suddenly she has to start over.

The last thing Lou wants is to move to a tiny Cotswolds village. She certainly doesn't intend to work for curmudgeonly eighty-year-old Edgar Allsopp. But Edgar is about to make her the kind of promise nobody could ignore. In return, she secretly vows to help him fall in love with life again.

Foxwell is also home to Remy, whose charm and charisma are proving hard to ignore. But Lou hasn't recovered from the last time she fell for a charmer. She needs a distraction - and luckily one's about to turn up.

Secrets never stay hidden for long in Foxwell, nor are promises always kept. And no one could guess what lies ahead...

I don't know how Jill Mansell keeps doing it, but every single year without fail, she writes a new completely brilliant book that has me hooked and at times on the edge of my seat. 

For there are so many curveballs in the latter half of this story that I was never completely sure how it might turn out, and really didn't guess some elements at all. 

Which truly is the sign of a great author. 

I loved Edgar's character and his development over the course of the book, from someone who clearly needed Lou's help, to a far more rounded human, in spite of his advancing years. 

And Lou, well I could understand her motivations for agreeing to work for Edgar against her better judgments, and really enjoyed how she challenged herself to improve his life. 

This was heartwarming and fantastically well written and I adored every second of it.  Jill Mansell is once again a master storyteller, and I'm already looking forward to whatever her next book is. 

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

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