This is the first fanny blake book i have read. I enjoyed the imagery of the scenery that she portrayed. However, i thought it started off a bit confusin5as it flipped between the ladies without warning.
The story did seem a bit childish as well. Older ladies going over something that happened when they were teenagers.

A gorgeous book about relationships between family, friends, partners and lovers. The main character Amy appears to have a perfect life, husband, successful business and a holiday home tucked away in the Mallorca hills. Now in her sixtieth year Amy wants answers to an event that got her expelled all those years ago. She decides to invite her 3 old school friends to Mallorca for the weekend. They haven’t kept in touch much through their lives and each think the other has a better life in some way. Will the truth come out or will more lies be told? An interesting book that shows nothing is ever as simple it seems.
Thanks to Fanny Blake, Netgalley and Orion Publishing for the advance e book copy.

What I love about Fanny Blake's books is the way she takes very ordinary older women and gets inside their minds, lives and makes them open up to the world. Sometimes older women in fiction aren't given prime story lines but these characters have them in bucket loads. There's some secrets amongst this lot. Just when you think four women approaching a landmark birthday might be enjoying the quiet life!

Amy's husband is cheating the company and cheating on her, Kate has two husbands on the go. One is an ex - but he's very much in the present! And as for Linda and Jane! It's all very Housewives of Mallorca if there was such a programme. They could fill several episodes and then some.
Joking aside, the story gathers them at a villa in Mallorca, a gorgeous setting far away from their hum drums lives to open up and relax, think about what they want in live, and to reconnect not just with themselves but with each other. The idea of going to such a gorgeous village sounds lovely and it would help anyone sort their head out. But secrets even come out here...

Fanny is a writer who writes from the heart and puts real-life, realistic women in difficult and challenging situations. IT goes to show how important female friends are! And that the phrase - a woman is like a teabag - you don't know how wrong she really is until she's placed in hot water is very apt here.
Oh and just one more thing - I really must go to Soller market and buy the ensaimaidas!

I think this book is really good and shows how best friends go their own way but always come back to one and another. I also liked how it wasn't all loved up and not everyone lived happily ever after. Also liked how it showed how women manage with out partners in either life or business. Thank you for a brilliant read and I will buy this when it's out so I can reread it again and again

Amy, Linda, Kate and Jane were best friends in high school but when Amy is expelled after she is accused of theft, their friendship drifts apart.

After the breakdown of her marriage, Amy decides to invite Linda, Kate and Jane for a reunion at her holiday home on Mallorca to try to discover who was responsible for her expulsion.

Over the course of the weekend, the women discover secrets about each other, and then they are confronted with a face from their past. Will they able to put their demons behind them and get their friendship back on track?

A quick and easy read which was enjoyable and entertaining.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I really really liked this book so much so that managed to pick up 4 more of this authors book in the second hand shop, happy days.