From the first page to the last, this book had me hooked. The suspense is palpable, and the twists are downright shocking. Love Louise’s books and this one was no different. 5 stars!!!

Charlotte and Perry have owned their clifftop holiday home in Pine Ridge for years.
Now their friends from London, Amy and Linus, have also bought a secondary home nearby and the two families are looking forward to a wonderfully relaxing summer..
But things don’t quite to plan. Tensions escalate between the two couples and the locals. And by the end of the holiday, marriages and friendships have been torn apart and someone has lost their life.

A slow-burning, well plotted story. Dual timeline, multiple points of view. Suspenseful and surprising. Highly recommended.

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Now city friends Amy and Linus have bought a second home nearby and when the two families descend, they plan lazy days at the beach and evenings sipping rosé and watching the sun set from Charlotte’s summerhouse veranda. But this summer is different. A group of locals – headed by the charismatic Robbie – will stop at nothing to make the second home owners pay for their holiday. By the end of their break, marriages will be torn apart, friendships shattered and crimes exposed. And one of them will have lost their life.
Thanks to NetGalley and HQ for giving me an advance copy.

This is a fantastic book which will have you hooked from the first chapter. So many characters some you will love so e you will hate. The story itself will have you gripped.

This book deals with a number of very topical issues including tensions between locals and second homers and between baby boomers and millennials in an.entertaining way which I felt held my interest. The characters are well-drawn with flaws equally shared so.there are no obvious "goodies" and "baddies", there.is a good sense.of location and the story moves at a good pace. I really enjoyed it

Two families, friends in London, have holiday properties on the south coast. Charlotte and Perry have been coming for years but this is the first summer season for Amy and Linus as they have just bought a bungalow two doors down.

There are tensions, however, between the second homers and the locals, who are finding themselves priced out of the local housing market.

I found this quite slow to begin with and it took me a while to work out who all the characters were but once the story got going, I couldn’t put it down. All the characters have secrets to hide, which makes for lots of twists and turns. Some were more likeable than others, but there was a certain reality to all of them. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book reminded me so much of the Welsh activists many years ago, when the English bought holiday homes in Wales, brought back a memory or two.
It took me a bit of time to get into the story as needed to work out which family was who etc. Once I’d got that sorted in my head the story took hold and what a brilliant story it is. I loved how each character had a back story that wove its way through the holiday which, in turn made this a page turning thriller that kept me guessing till the end. I loved the contrast between the locals and the holiday homers, and a great twist with the summer house. Louise is certainly the queen of thriller writing. I’ll certainly be recommending this to others.,

I've got family from the Dorset area and this book felt like I could be reading about them! I've read all of Louise Candlish previous books and this one didn't disappoint me. Highly recommended.

Louise Candlish is 100% on form with this novel! 'Our holiday' is a fantastically gripping work of modern fiction that sees multiple fantastic storylines combine in the unlikeliest of places!

The story is based around 2 families, friends from London, who spend their August holidaying in their 2nd homes in a coastal town in the south of England. Among the local residents are a pressure group the NJFA (Not just for August), locals who have been priced out of the property market by Londoners with second homes. Between tattoos, teenage trysts and mid-life crisis, this book has it all going on! SUCH a gripping story, I particularly loved the storyline around teenage daughter Beattie, which really had me guessing!

Well written, interesting characters and undoubtedly a story worth telling, there is nothing not to love about this book! Highly recommended!

My thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an advance copy.

Louise Candlish has been a writer for 20 years but never fails to surprise with how many genres she can handle with consummate skill. This time it's a satire with a lot of humour. The very topical story is about locals in a gorgeous seaside resort protesting about second home owners and "DFLs" (down from London), who typically occupy their holiday homes for one month a year.

I found the communication gaps between the young people, teens and parents hilarious. There are several laugh out loud moments. But it's also a serious issue with seaside towns all over the UK suffering from chronic housing shortages for the workers who provide all the graft for the second home owners.

The plot revolves around an act of criminal damage that has tragic consequences. The sub plots include a teenager who buys luxury clothes with a gym scam, a recovering alcoholic who's in a secret gay relationship, and the charismatic leader of the local protest group.

A very enjoyable read with Candlish effortlessly crossing the generation divide in a way that most authors would find impossible.

I do like Louise Candlish's books, but this took me a while to get into - there were a lot of characters, and I kept getting their names mixed up. It's a promising setup, though - the escalating tensions in a south coast seaside town between wealthy second home owners (known locally as DFLs - Down From London) and local people who can't afford any homes at all, let alone second ones.

The action revolves around two of the "DFL" families - Charlotte and Perry, Amy and Linus - with assorted children and friends, along with local activist Robbie and his friend Tate. Over the summer relationships and allegiances form, shift and break, secrets have fqr-reaching consequences , and ultimately it will all end in death - but whose?

Louise Candlish has a sharp eye for contemporary issues and tensions - crystallised here in the entertaining conflicts between student Tabitha and her boyfriend's father, Perry. Money and class are pervasive themes too, not to mention the differing attitudes to the local housing of migrants.

An engaging read as always.

Absolutely brilliant, loved it. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me an advance copy, I will definitely be recommending.

I so enjoyed this, like all of Louise Candlishs' books, there is that wonderful mix of brilliantly drawn characters and tension that means you don't want to put it down. I adored it - a brilliant summer read. When they say gripping and twisty, they mean it, a great read - one to pack for your holiday!

I wanted to preface by saying that I love Louise Candlish and this is a rare occasion that I'm marking one of her books so low. Whilst I thought Our Holiday had a great premise, for me this was too long a read, wasn't well paced and had an average ending - sorry!
2 stars.

Louise Candlish is the mistress of contemporary London domestic noir – and this, her latest release, cements this reputation, even if the plot in this novel unfolds not in the capital city to the rocky Cornish coastline. It is here that two professional couples – Charlotte and Perry, as well as Amy and Linus – are among the privileged few who have managed to buy holiday homes in a wealthy enclave of second home owners. With local residents struggling to get onto the property ladder and becoming increasingly dissatisfied at the summer influx into their picturesque village, it is only a matter of time until tensions erupt. As usual, I was drawn into the multiple threads of this novel very quickly, and keen to see how developments for these two couples, their children, and the local pressure group led by charismatic villager Robbie plays out. At times I did think that Candlish had packaged up too many contemporary clichés for us here – the ‘woke’ but innocent university student, the shoplifting teenager, the blasé French exchange student, the middle-aged cyclist and many more jostle for position here – but overall, this was a compelling yarn, well executed, that showcases modern concerns well. I wish to thank the publishers and NetGalley for the free ARC gifted to me in exchange for this unbiased review.

Took me a while to get into this book and was definitely slow for me unfortunately.

Overall I did enjoy it, not all the characters though unfortunately.

Thank you to Netgalley and HQ Digital for this ARC which I did enjoy mostly.

I really enjoyed this book.

Affluent people buy second/holiday homes in Pine Ridge, whereas those born and raised there can’t afford to and so they protest when the rich arrive for summer.

This was such a good read, from a few viewpoints and there wasn’t a moment to be bored.

Maybe a slower burn than people enjoy but it felt really engrossing.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an ARC in return for an honest review.

Louise Candlish books have generally been a miss for me, and unfortunately, this one was too. For some reason, I find her writing tedious and crammed full of useless information and people. It's hard to connect with the plot and the characters, when there are too many to follow and you don't really know what was going on. The premise of the book did draw me in, but it was too slow of a 'burn' for me. I needed a lot more to keep me engaged.

This is a slow burn thriller with lots of characters to keep things interesting. A very nuanced central debate surrounding second-home ownership and a thread of menace woven through but the action really started to kick in at about the half way point.

Great for anyone looking for a different kind of thriller but was just a tad too slow for me.

I'm a huge fan of this author and Those People is one of my favourite thrillers of the past few years. Unfortunately I found it much harder to connect to the characters in this one. Not because they're all unlikeable – Candlish's stock trade is producing characters you won't want to root for! – but because they lacked the nuance and richness of her previous ones. Too many of them felt one-dimensional and cliched. The plot itself held my attention and once again Candlish has identified an issue readers can wholly relate to – trying to find somewhere affordable to live. This time she focuses on out-of-towners, specifically Londoners, buying up holiday homes on the coast, who then find themselves targeted by locals forced out of the houses they've lived in for years. The plot is satisfyingly twisty and gripping but, ultimately, the novel left me feeling a little flat. The lack of rounded characters was too distracting and for that reason I'm giving it 3.5 stars.