Chick Lit Challenge # 10

My book blogging seems to have fallen by the wayside just lately (like so many other things!!) and I have read several chick lit books but none of them are fresh enough in my mind to write about them.

I spotted Love Always by Harriet Evans in my local Waterstones and in an effort not to add to my book collection I duly went round to the library to request a copy.
























A compelling and heartbreaking tale of lost love, family secrets and those little moments that can change your life for ever. Returning to the wild Cornish coast for the funeral of her beloved grandmother, Natasha has no idea of how things are about to change. This trip reunites her with her large and complicated family for perhaps the last time: Summercove, her grandparents' beautiful house by the sea, is being sold. With it go a generation of memories and the key to the death, many years ago, of fifteen-year-old Cecily, her aunt, a tragedy that no one ever discusses. When she finds the opening pages of Cecily's diary, written the summer she died, Natasha discovers the family she idealised has secrets that have long been buried. But where is the rest of the diary? Back in London, trying to rebuild her own life, Natasha is haunted by Cecily's writing and the tragic tale of love, rivalry and heartbreak promised in those scant pages. She has to know what happened, the summer her aunt died. And so she makes some life-changing decisions -- and in the process finds out that a second chance at love might be possible!


This book started off very slowly - so slowly in fact that I almost gave up on it and returned it to the library. I enjoy books which have 2 strands of the same story set in different years with each chapter going backwards and forwards between 1963 and 2009. Although I have to say I enjoyed the story of Cecily more set in 1963 and the cross cultural references between England and India made this a bit different from your usual chick lit.

From the cover I would have expected a typical light and fluffy read - but this was a bit more than that - and quite enjoyable.