I was so excited to get a copy of this book to review from Jill Mansell, so much that it queue jumped my very long to read pile .
I found after reading chapter one, I didn't want to put the book down has I loved all the characters straight away.As this is a wonderful tale that you can fall in and read in a day or too.
We meet Lily it's her twenty fifth birthday and she is reading the final letter her mum as written for her. As lily lost her mum at an early age but her mother managed to wrote a letter for every birthday for as long as she could until she was too sick and dying to any more. In this final letter she wrote of her love for her , asking if she finally meet her father and spoke of a man that truly had her heart always and provided her with a name in full. Lily took this as a clue to find him and find out more about her mother.
That was not the only secret that Lily was dealing with, she is deeply in love with her best friend Dan, but keeps this under wraps as she knows that he doesn't she her that way and is a it of a player.
We also meet Patsy who is lily best friend and Dan's sister, she is hiding a mystery guest in her house until lily picked the locks to retrieve concert tickets that Dan is trying to hide from Patsy. Her house guest in the form of Eddie Tessler film star is not happy has another person knows where he is hiding from the press another mouth to keep quite. But in the next breath he is happy to have adult company being copperplate until Patsy gets home is driving him aligned mad also feels a pull towards lily too. A secret like this can only stay contained for so long but the chemistry is building up between them. Declan even helped her compose a letter to find Declan to the displeasure of Dan.
Dan is hiding a big whopper of a secret he is in love with Lily has been like before every !!!!
Over in Patsy world her body clock is ticking , she is so wants to have her happy ending her Prince Charming and the baby she has been waiting for so long. After falling in love and thought she had this till her husband told her he was guy but they are still friends and she even set him up with his husband and they play happy families, but this is not enough and wants her happy ever after.
In the book we also follow Carol who has brought Lily up from an early age and is the child she never able to have and losing her husband at an early age too and dealing with moving on once she meets Declan.
Who will Lily end up with, can Lily and Dan on up to they feelings or will she run away with the film star ????
Will Patsy ever meet her Prince Charming or keep meeting losers on Internet dates???
Will Carol move on and let Declan in ????
They are laughs, secrets and great reading so go grab a copy and find out for yourself today.
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