A Christmas present from my soon to be sister-in-law Leanne. My boyfriend told her to go into a book store and pick a book. She picked two and this is one of them :)

I previously really enjoyed 'The French Gardener', so I was disappointed when I first started this and found it really hard to get into. I just didn't like Alba, she was a spoiled little bitch.

However it really picked up halfway through and I couldn't put it down. I loved the flashbacks with Thomas & Valentina. I wouldn't have guessed in a million years about what happened to her and why.

I still think Thomas would have saved his relationship with his daughter by just telling the truth about her mother, even though I understood by the end of the book, why it would have been so painful.

Once Alba started living in Italy, the transformation in her personally made me like her. The ending surprised me, as the book had been leading up to something else. Good chick-lit read. One to chuck in the suitcase.

This has now found a home with my sister-in-law, who gave me the book in the first place!