Book Review - Must Love Flowers by Debbie Macomber - #HolidayReading Cyprus

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Title: Must Love Flowers

Author: Debbie Macomber

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Sphere

Publication Date: 15th August 2024

Rating: 5 Stars

The joyful and escapist new summer novel from New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber

Love blossoms in the most unexpected places . . .

Joan Sample has been content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she decides it's time to get back out into the world. With her sister's encouragement, Joan starts taking care of her overgrown lawn, adopts an energetic puppy, and even rents out her spare room.

Maggie Herbert is overwhelmed, working mornings as a barista, studying to become a nurse in the afternoons, and avoiding her alcoholic father's temper at home. When she finds Joan's room to rent, she believes her luck has turned. Only after she moves in does she realise that her least favourite customer happens to be Joan's son - and she's just taken his childhood room.

Despite a rocky start, a friendship blooms between the two women and they wonder if they've found the home they've been searching for. But as Maggie starts seeing a softer side to her nemesis and Joan grows closer with a local landscaper, they question if the risks they're taking in love and life will be worth it in the end...

Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley, Phillipa Ashley and Jenny Colgan, Must Love Flowers a heart-warming and life-affirming story about new beginnings and finding love and friendship in unlikely places

This was the perfect book to kick of my summer holiday reading,and I managed to devour it between the airport and the flight! 

It's always a sheer pleasure to curl up with a Debbie Macomber novel and she has certainly struck gold once again wtih this novel. 

Joan is four years on from losing her husband, still deep in grief but is starting to realise she needs to change her life.  

Whereas Maggie is young, studying nursing and dealing with an alcoholic father. She is desperate to move out, and Joan is compelled to have Maggie as a boarder once she learns to Maggie's situation. 

Between them, a kind hearted gardener, and Edison who is utterly adorable, wounds start to mend, and both ladies are richer for having met each other. 

This is s heart warming story of female friendship and second chances, and it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling to read it. 

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