Author: Natalie Normann
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: One More Chapter
Publication Date: 24th June 2020
Rating: 4 Stars
He never meant to stay.
He certainly never meant to fall in love…
Summer Island off the coast of Norway was the place London chef Jack Greene should have been from. He’s an outsider in the community that should have been his family, and now he’s setting foot on the strange land he has inherited for the first time.
Ninni Toft, his nearest neighbour, has come to the island to mend her broken heart. With her wild spirit and irrepressible enthusiasm, she shows city-boy Jack the simple pleasures of island life – and what it means to belong. To a place. To a people. To one person in particular…
Home is where the heart is, but is Jack’s heart with the career he left behind in London, or on the wind-swept shores of Summer Island, with Ninni?
He certainly never meant to fall in love…
Summer Island off the coast of Norway was the place London chef Jack Greene should have been from. He’s an outsider in the community that should have been his family, and now he’s setting foot on the strange land he has inherited for the first time.
Ninni Toft, his nearest neighbour, has come to the island to mend her broken heart. With her wild spirit and irrepressible enthusiasm, she shows city-boy Jack the simple pleasures of island life – and what it means to belong. To a place. To a people. To one person in particular…
Home is where the heart is, but is Jack’s heart with the career he left behind in London, or on the wind-swept shores of Summer Island, with Ninni?
It is really refreshing to read a nice summery book, set not in France, Greece, Spain etc... but in Norway. It's not a setting I've come across much although it is a place I'd love to visit in real life.
So was delighted to be able to get to know Summer Island, a Norwegian island, and its inhabitants over the course of this book. In particular Ninni who's heart lays on Summer Island even if she doesn't live their full time, and Jack, the Englishman who has just discovered he has inherited a farm on the Island and is visiting for the first time.
Seeing the island through Jack's eyes is wonderful, we get to see various Norwegian traditions, and also the local customs, odd words of Norwegian and it was fascinating to see what Jack, a chef made of all the local food.
Then there is Ninni who is trying to recover from her latest heartbreak and really doesn't know what to make of her new neighbour, who really knows nothing about life on a Norwegian island. I enjoyed seeing them both get to know each other better.
This was an incredibly relaxing read, the pace of life on the island is rather slow, and it was an enjoyable but gentle story that I was able to really enjoy.
This may be the author's first book, but it certainly won't be the last one I read by her. Lovely writing style and I'd love to hopefully read more books set in Norway.
Thank you to One More Chapter and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily,
So was delighted to be able to get to know Summer Island, a Norwegian island, and its inhabitants over the course of this book. In particular Ninni who's heart lays on Summer Island even if she doesn't live their full time, and Jack, the Englishman who has just discovered he has inherited a farm on the Island and is visiting for the first time.
Seeing the island through Jack's eyes is wonderful, we get to see various Norwegian traditions, and also the local customs, odd words of Norwegian and it was fascinating to see what Jack, a chef made of all the local food.
Then there is Ninni who is trying to recover from her latest heartbreak and really doesn't know what to make of her new neighbour, who really knows nothing about life on a Norwegian island. I enjoyed seeing them both get to know each other better.
This was an incredibly relaxing read, the pace of life on the island is rather slow, and it was an enjoyable but gentle story that I was able to really enjoy.
This may be the author's first book, but it certainly won't be the last one I read by her. Lovely writing style and I'd love to hopefully read more books set in Norway.
Thank you to One More Chapter and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily,
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Thank you, Rachel. I'm so thrilled you liked it :D
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