Author: Jennifer Bohnet
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Publication Date: 7th April 2020
Rating: 5 Stars
A sweeping, bittersweet love story amidst the glitz and the glamour of the French Riviera.
Two very different women are starring in their own real-life dramas behind the scenes of the Cannes Film Festival.
Newly in love, Anna Carson returns to the Festival for the first time in nearly 40 years hoping to reconcile her past with her present-day happiness.
Journalist Daisy Harris is looking for a big scoop at her first Festival and is determined to embrace her new single status amongst all the glitz and glamour.
Behind the champagne and parties, secrets from the past are bubbling to the surface and difficult decisions need to be taken.
One thing's for certain - by the end of the Film Festival their lives will have changed forever…
Two very different women are starring in their own real-life dramas behind the scenes of the Cannes Film Festival.
Newly in love, Anna Carson returns to the Festival for the first time in nearly 40 years hoping to reconcile her past with her present-day happiness.
Journalist Daisy Harris is looking for a big scoop at her first Festival and is determined to embrace her new single status amongst all the glitz and glamour.
Behind the champagne and parties, secrets from the past are bubbling to the surface and difficult decisions need to be taken.
One thing's for certain - by the end of the Film Festival their lives will have changed forever…
What a simply beautiful story, set over the two weeks of the Cannes Film Festival, this is a book that has everything.
Featuring the south of France, the hustle and bustle of the Film Festival, two very different main characters, new friendships, long lost past secrets bubbling up, fresh romance and some really sweet kids, this really is a joyous book to read.
Well joyous but at times there were tears pricking my eyes due to events I can't specify as they would definitely be spoilers!
We have Anna Carsons who is at her first film festival for 40 years and she is really hoping she can finally put the memories and past to rest, and be able to move on with her life and her new love. Well until a bombshell just before the festival starts threatens to unsettle her a lot.
Then there is Daisy, the young journalist, who has never been to the festival before and it's through her eyes we can see the glitz and glamour, the various parties, just how exhausting the whole two weeks can be for everyone attending .
Both Anna and Daisy are staying with Poppy, so although not a main character we get to know Poppy quite well too, and she is rather central too.
As much as I loved Daisy's story and did really enjoy reading her sections, it was in the end Anna's that grasped me completely. I needed to know why she hadn't been to the festival for so long, just what she was hiding and once we knew that I need had to know, and was reading compulsively to find out how everything would resolve itself.
The blurb is not wrong, lives really are changed forever over this rather special film festival, and I was delighted to be a fly on the wall watching it all play out. I was loving every moment of the book and think it may just be one of my favourites from this author - and I do tend to love all her books!
Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
Featuring the south of France, the hustle and bustle of the Film Festival, two very different main characters, new friendships, long lost past secrets bubbling up, fresh romance and some really sweet kids, this really is a joyous book to read.
Well joyous but at times there were tears pricking my eyes due to events I can't specify as they would definitely be spoilers!
We have Anna Carsons who is at her first film festival for 40 years and she is really hoping she can finally put the memories and past to rest, and be able to move on with her life and her new love. Well until a bombshell just before the festival starts threatens to unsettle her a lot.
Then there is Daisy, the young journalist, who has never been to the festival before and it's through her eyes we can see the glitz and glamour, the various parties, just how exhausting the whole two weeks can be for everyone attending .
Both Anna and Daisy are staying with Poppy, so although not a main character we get to know Poppy quite well too, and she is rather central too.
As much as I loved Daisy's story and did really enjoy reading her sections, it was in the end Anna's that grasped me completely. I needed to know why she hadn't been to the festival for so long, just what she was hiding and once we knew that I need had to know, and was reading compulsively to find out how everything would resolve itself.
The blurb is not wrong, lives really are changed forever over this rather special film festival, and I was delighted to be a fly on the wall watching it all play out. I was loving every moment of the book and think it may just be one of my favourites from this author - and I do tend to love all her books!
Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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