Book Review - The Summer Trip by Isabelle Broom

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Title: The Summer Trip

Author: Isabelle Broom

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Publication Date: 23rd June 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

What if your life worked out perfectly . . . for someone else?

It's been 18 years since Ava spent the summer on the Greek island of Corfu, but she has never forgotten what happened during those months - or who she left behind.

Now single, estranged from her family, and preparing to wave her daughter off to university, Ava's life seems a million miles away from the one she dreamed about as a teenager - a life now being lived by her sister instead.

When Ava decides to return to Corfu for the summer, she knows she must finally face the place and the people that broke her heart. But with old resentments festering, long-buried secrets lurking, and familiar feelings resurfacing, it looks set to be a holiday that will change all their lives forever. . .

Well this was a story that left me with a great big smile on my face! 

I may have at times been utterly convinced I knew what some of the characters were hiding, at other points there were revelations that shocked me and the one thing I convinced myself that was true, was evidently not - which is why I love reading so much,  you can never be sure of the journey. 

And what a journey these characters take, three sisters all fairly estranged from each other end up in Corfu for the summer, and it was wonderful to get to know Ava, Mattie and Orla, and just why they never see each other. 

Add in Ava's almost 18 year old daughter Rosie, a strange man that she seems to be infatuated with, that Ava dislikes almost immediately (and I can't say I blame her), what what we have is a summer that will change lives forever. 

There are hot Greek men, delicious sounding food, you definitely get a feel for the pace of life in Corfu and also the strong family values that that Greek hold dear to themselves.   

And by the time we get to the last third of the book, I was so engrossed that even when I wasn't reading the characters were on my mind. 

This is another fabulous story from Isabelle Broom. 

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