Really enjoyable read. Good characters and a Good story. Well worth a read. Think others will enjoy.

I struggled with this ... came back to it several times but it just didn't hold my interest. I didn't care for either of the main characters, and thought the plot a bit strange. The cottage and surroundings were much more interesting than the constant sex going on with the two main characters, Harry and Jo. I'm afraid I did not finish this.
Thanks to the publisher for a review copy.

Jo is single, hurtling towards 40 and with nothing to show for it. She has a plan but before she begins, she decides to throw herself into one final last fling. 

Harry is divorced, passionate and very grumpy but he has something about him that people seem to flock to.

He catch's Jo's eye at a dinner party and suddenly everything changes for both of them.

This book, is told over a ten-year period and it reflects on the same weekends that they have through different parts of their relationship. The weekends are at this rundown dirty cottage deep in the Shropshire countryside where there is little access to the outside world and clearly whatever happens there stays there. A place to unburden yourself. 

The weekends follow a formulaic pattern no matter what has been happening in their lives, no matter what they have left behind or what they have to go back to face after the weekend is over. 

A dirty weekend in the literal and figurative sense at the beginning of the relationship with the cottage as well as their own tangled lives. As time moves on interestingly the cottage also begins to change and becomes more instantiated, that initial escapism and living simply lost. Perhaps their passion is lost as well? 

I was intrigued by the concept of the way the story was told and was not sure what I was going to get, when I then started back at the beginning of one of Harry and Jo's weekends. However there were a few times where it was slow and plodding and felt it was being padded out to keep the same concept going for the sake of the story. 

I want to say I enjoyed the book, and I certainly did with the descriptions of the house, the landscape, the Shropshire hills and when it seemed to throw all seasons of weather at the cottage. The cosy fueled nights in at the pub and the interesting choices of music. But as Harry and Jo's relationship progressed I felt like I was voyeuristically watching it come apart piece by piece and it was rather uncomfortable to watch.

Perhaps too much reality to call it a book for escapism. A book that left me disappointed.

After reading 'Snap Happy' years ago, I have found myself drawn to new Fiona Walker publications; my response to them being a mix of complete love of or total indifference. This book fell somewhere between the two, mainly because the first 25% just seemed so slow! But...bear with it, because the slow 25% is a really important and integral part of what is to come and it undoubtedly gets more interesting. One thing Fiona Walker is always good at, is writing about love, particularly her 'will they, won't they' romances. In 'The Weekends of You and Me' we get an older Fiona Walker no longer writing just about falling in love, getting together etc., etc., - which Jo and Harry of course do, rapidly, desperately and passionately - but about staying the distance. We follow Jo and Harry through the early days of their fierce attraction and intense relationship, where most of their days are spent having sex just about everywhere. We move on through life with them to buying a house, having children until 8 years on they are in a marriage rapidly going stale under the pressures of parenthood, money worries employment and a seemingly endless stream of arguments.
The characters in the book are well-developed and very likeable, but I found the essence of the story rather sad, almost like it's an inevitability that far from the first flush of new love, and now rooted in reality, relationships are destined to lead to separation and divorce.
Central to the story is the dilapidated but cosy Morrow Cottage, tucked away in the middle of nowhere and where much of the action takes place.
One unanswered question torments me however. What happened to the lovely Rathbone????

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.

Thank you for approving this book.
Apologies for the feedback delay, sadly this book isn't for me. However I look forward to future releases from you.

This was a really interesting and well thought out novel. We start in the present day, a weekend that Jo and Harry are spending at the family cottage. Jo has grown out of love with Harry and thinks back to weekends spent over the years at the cottage. Their relationship has been loving and sometimes stormy. Jo has to decide if her future will include Harry. A good read.