Book Review - Walking On Sunshine by Giovanna Fletcher - #HolidayReading Tenerife

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Title: Walking On Sunshine

Author: Giovanna Fletcher

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Publication Date: 26th May 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

In the darkness, we all need a little light . . .

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After Mike loses Pia, his partner of seventeen years, their best friends Vicky and Zaza try to help pick up the pieces.

But though Pia's gone, she left a plan. A list of loving instructions to help Mike and her friends come to terms with their loss.

And they're each going to need it . . .

Just-engaged Zaza fears committing any further.

Exhausted mother and wife Vicky has lost sight of herself.

While Mike just feels all the colour has gone from his life.

When the list sends them trekking to Peru, where high mountains and sweltering rainforests push them to the brink, all they have to guide them is their faith in Pia and in themselves.

But will they learn that anything is possible when you're walking on sunshine?

I was so happy to see that Giovanna Fletcher had written a new novel, and I eagerly awaited the moment where I would be able to start it 

Let's just say it is even better than I thought it would be and I had high hopes having loved all her other books. 

From alternating view points of Vicky, Zaza and Mike, we see a wonderful bond of friendship despite adversity, and of re-discovering who you really are. 

The details of the trail they trekked in Peru were breath taking, I felt as though I was there alongside the characters. 

But even before the travel element (which did include local food, so don't let your pet guinea pigs read this),  We get a well rounded view of what each of the characters lives are like and why they need this trip so much 

I was getting emotional at points but generally its a really uplifting book to read, and one I couldn't get enough of. 

Thank you to Michael Joseph and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily,