Book Review - The Summer Fair by Heidi Swain - #HolidayReading Mexico

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Title: The Summer Fair

Author: Heidi Swain

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 12th May 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

Beth loves her job working in a care home, looking after its elderly residents, but she doesn’t love the cramped and dirty house-share she currently lives in. So, when she gets the opportunity to move to Nightingale Square, sharing a house with the lovely Eli, she jumps at the chance.

 

The community at Nightingale Square welcomes Beth with open arms, and when she needs help to organise a fundraiser for the care home they rally round. Then she discovers The Arches, a local creative arts centre, has closed and the venture to replace it needs their help too – but this opens old wounds and past secrets for Beth.

 

Music was always an important part of her life, but now she has closed the door on all that. Will her friends at the care home and the people of Nightingale Square help her find a way to learn to love it once more…?

How lovely to be back in Nightingale Square amongst some familiar faces and some brand new characters.

I adored getting to know Beth and all the wonderful characters of the residents of the care home she works at. 

I also really enjoyed seeing what activities she was coming up with in her new role, and gotta say I think I would have enjoyed them myself. 

And her new housemate Eli, ooh I loved him too! 

Beth had banished music from her life despite at one point it being the most important thing to her, and now with Eli being someone who plays music the whole time and a new care home resident who used to be a performer, well music is back in her life regardless, but will she cope? 

There are so many varied threads to enjoy in this book, and it was Beth's backstory that really got to me,, actually Eli's did too and the way certain elements interlinked was fabulous. 

And the Summer Fair, well you'll just have to read Heidi Swains heartwarming words to find out more about the fair itself. 

It's another truly wonderful book from this exceptionally talented storyteller. 

Thank  you to Simon & Schuster and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.