Really good read. Would recommend to friends and family. I could sympathise with characters (important for any fiction novel!) and looked forward to picking it up and reading the next few chapters! Interesting plot line and a good ending. Will look out for more novels by the author. Thank you.

What an incredible book! I’ve been really interested in Japan recently (Tokyo in particular) so I was really excited to see what this would be like. I did not expect there to be so much detail! Oh my goodness, sometimes I just felt like I was there with Charlotte.

I really liked Charlotte as a character and even though we’re nothing alike I still managed to see a lot of myself in her, just based on some of the decisions she made. I also really like how the romance aspect of this book was handled. I found myself too interested in Japan to think about Charlotte’s love life!

Honestly this was such a beautiful book. I learned so much from it, and it has made me even more interested in Japan than I was before. I can’t praise it enough and I hope it becomes a huge chart topping success.

I don’t reread books very much anymore but I’m pretty sure I’ll be rereading this soon!

Charlie feels the need to break off her wedding three weeks before the date after her fiancé asks her permission to 'sow his wild oats' before th wedding. Broken-hearted, she decides to take their month-long honeymoon to Japan but on her own. Whilst there she not only learns about the Japanese future but also about herself and what she really wants.
First of all this book was not what I expected but I don't mean this in a bad way. Instead of your typical chick romance this was more a book about Charlie's love story with Japan and with herself. The descriptions of Japan were glorious. It is not a place i've ever felt a burning desire to visit but I found myself looking up many of the featured places as I read. Her emotional journey also resonated as well and gave me food for thought in places.
I loved Charlie and her relationship with her siblings. I loved that she was willing to stick at it even when miserable and broken and that she genuinely had a respect for the culture that she was experiencing. I also thought that Matt wasn't bad just very immature.
This is a fabulous read and i'd thoroughly recommend it even if you think Japan's not for you.

A really lovely read. The main character is lovely and it was a real joy spending time with her. I loved seeing Japan through her eyes. I loved the messages the book had about knowing yourself and taking the time to find out more about yourself and what you want out of life.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an early review copy.

Charlotte’s plan included the perfect country wedding, followed by a month-long honeymoon in Japan. Well that was the plan.

Then, her fiancé starts having second thoughts and wants a break before the wedding, shocked, angry and all other emotions, she knows there's no choice but to call off the wedding.

Charlotte, whose always had her fiancé by her side and never been alone or single, isn’t sure she knows how to be, but she is going to try,

The first step being taking that trip of a lifetime – alone. But then she begins to wonder if she’s done the right thing.

Is she going to find herself and what she wants to do with her life in the hills of Mount Fuji, or in the karaoke bars of Tokyo?

Will she be ready to let someone else into her life by the time the cherry blossom flowers?

An enjoyable read, loved the description of places in Japan and other places.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I loved this book and was just what I needed as a pick me up and make me feel happy. Would recommend to others in these difficult times.

Read it in a night, loved it.I loads about Japan. In some ways it was a travel guide and others a story about finding your self. Charlotte was a great main character. I loved her clossness to her sibblings. The ending was perfect Matthew was so silly. Brilliant book

Thank you to NetGalley for gifting me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3 weeks before her wedding Charlie discoverers that her and her fiancé Matt are not on the same page about their future together so she cancels the wedding and jets off on their honeymoon to Japan on her own.
From there on the book is more like a Japanese tourist guide as we follow Charlie around. There is the odd sprinkling of a flashback to when she was with Matt and a group chat with her family but the one thing this book taught me is all about Japan! The problem with that is that Japan has never been a place I have wanted to visit so this was a bit annoying for me. Although the author describes the most beautiful places and I could almost smell the blossom the book was more about Charlie’s romance with Japan than a human and I’m not sure that is for me.