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Title: There's No Place Like Home

Author: Jane Lovering

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Publication Date: 10th January 2023

Rating: 5 Stars

Isabel, Izzy to her friends, has got nothing left to lose when she makes the bravest decision of her life. 

A month living under canvas on the Yorkshire Moors with five strangers wouldn’t normally be her idea of a good time, even if there is prize money to be won at the end of it, but she’s all out of options.

Joining her in this wild goose chase, being filmed for a TV show, are farmer Seb, whose marriage is creaking but who is desperate not to lose his family. Sheltered Ruth who needs an opportunity to show she can make her own decisions. Glamorous socialite Kanga, who has been living a lie. American Junior who has his own secret that has led him there. And last but not least, mysterious and brooding Mac, who Izzy can’t help but be drawn to.

As the fickleness of nature tests them all to their limits, this disparate group come together to face the challenge. But when Izzy finally tells them the truth that has brought her out on the Moors, will that be the end of their adventure, or the beginning of her future? Because what Izzy really needs is a place to call home, and someone to share it with could be even better…

I absolutely adore Jane Lovering's take on a reality tv book! This is superb. 

It's almost surprising the programme doesn't already exist, although to be fair not sure I'd want to watch it, but it's a group of people put into the Yorkshire Moors for a month in winter, with the aim of tracking to see if they can find  evidence of any big cats. 

It's a very mixed group that opt to take part in this show,  with none of them really realising what they had signed up for until it was too lter. 

Izzy is the standout character by far, and she shows amazing resilience in her life, and the secret she is hiding from the group, is one of the more interesting. 

There is plenty going on in this story, as we get to know all of the characters, and also from their "celebrity big foot tracker" learn all about how to track a beast! 

It's a wonderful story, that had me thinking about it even when I wasn't reading, utterly brilliant. 

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