Book Review - The Time of Her Life by Tracy Bloom - #BlogTour

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Title: The Time of Her Life

Author: Tracy Bloom

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Date: 18th January 2024

Rating: 5 Stars

Starting again never felt so good!

The worst day of her life could be the best thing that’s ever happened.

Kim Jacobs believes that she is happily married, until her husband tells her he is leaving her. Forced to re-evaluate her life on the same day that her son leaves for university, Kim is shocked to find herself sleeping in the spare room of his college flatshare.

She never imagined her prime would be spent with a bunch of man-babies, but amongst the empty pizza boxes and unwashed laundry, Kim can feel something starting to happen.

Can her unlikely new housemates help her realise that maybe the best is yet to come?

I just wish there were more pages, I could have happily kept on reading this, but I appear to have reached the end. In fact I half wonder if there is the potential for a sequel. 

I loved this book so much, it is classic Tracy Bloom, full of real normal sounding people, going through situations that are easy to relate to. 

Although that being said not sure how many mums would end up living in their sons student share house, during the first semester of uni, having just found out her husband has been cheating on her with the next door neighbour. 

But that is exactly the situation Kim finds herself in, and she is suddenly living with 3 barely adult boys, who are starting on their next phase of life, including her son Harry who is barely speaking to her. 

And while Kim is retreating from the life she has known, she gets a job in a chippy to pay rent, and meets some truly lovely people. 

My favourite character was Sonny, he just has a way a about him and he really grew over the course of the book. When we meet him he is a coddled mothers boy who has now idea about just about anything, and has a tendency to over explain things in a really endearing manner and he just develops so well in his first term at uni. 

The other person in the flat share is Angus, who comes across initially as a jack the lad, but soon Kim gets to see another side to him. 

And Kim it's like a coming of age story for her too, and it was so lovely to get to know her and as the story progresses sand she stops having a meltdown about the destruction of her marriage and starts to come into her own, it is really heartwarming. 

I thoroughly enjoyed reading every page of this which I read incredibly quickly. I was so absorbed in the story that I was lucky not to miss my stop on the tube, and when I did look up was surprised that I had no recollection of stopping many times before that point, I was that interested in what I was reading. 

Just fabulous and I do hope there might be a sequel, I feel like there could be more to come from these characters. 

Thanks to Harper Collins and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.