{"id":45389,"date":"2025-01-24T18:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/an-almost-perfect-summer-by-jill-mansell\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:27:59","slug":"an-almost-perfect-summer-by-jill-mansell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=45389","title":{"rendered":"An Almost Perfect Summer by Jill Mansell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-4206614841431267950\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjbsfMN68eIWnH-Ms9a5-rYkTc75iOea0H0fe8UzV6Isqtr8FdOM8Vzzujvl_sEBkdlAfuex7G24Hqnf-2kMx6kkf9YNKAdMZz1-EU8DEbpFlZgKqlPvX2vYFF6Y9b-AzADSbwg0HmqCPg16d_a_h7op3yER5lKbDj3rI9MtRc-yae8FNg_U4r7CxWf0OVM\/s1250\/an%20almost%20perfect.webp\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1250\" data-original-width=\"813\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjbsfMN68eIWnH-Ms9a5-rYkTc75iOea0H0fe8UzV6Isqtr8FdOM8Vzzujvl_sEBkdlAfuex7G24Hqnf-2kMx6kkf9YNKAdMZz1-EU8DEbpFlZgKqlPvX2vYFF6Y9b-AzADSbwg0HmqCPg16d_a_h7op3yER5lKbDj3rI9MtRc-yae8FNg_U4r7CxWf0OVM\/w260-h400\/an%20almost%20perfect.webp\" width=\"260\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Josefin Sans;\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">Nick is the most intriguing man Nella has met in a while.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">\u00a0He&#8217;s a 9 in the looks department (<\/span><span class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">no one<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">\u00a0gets a 10), he makes her laugh,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">and<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">\u00a0he keeps her company when she ends up in A&amp;E. But they live hundreds of miles apart.<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">Then Nella loses her job.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">\u00a0There&#8217;s a perfect role on offer at a Cotswolds holiday retreat. The catch is that her boss would be Nick. And that makes Nick the one man she can&#8217;t risk falling in love with.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\/><\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\"><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\/>While Nella struggles with her feelings<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: start;\">, a Hollywood star has found a haven at the retreat. Lizzie&#8217;s sworn off people &#8211; especially men &#8211; until her friendly new neighbours entice her out of her shell. Maybe she needs a flirtation &#8211; with gorgeous Nick, perhaps? Not with taciturn local Matthew, though, who definitely isn&#8217;t a member of her fan club. Then an astonishing secret revealed changes everything . . .<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Oxygen;\">It has been a couple of years since I have dived into a Jill Mansell novel but by the time I had finished the first chapter of her latest book An Almost Perfect Summer it felt like I was back home in my happy place because her writing is so easy to get wrapped up in as she envelopes you in a whole new group of characters with various woes and whose stories all begin to merge together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Oxygen;\">Set in the Cotswolds in a village called Starbourne where a range of high end holiday cottages are let we spend the Summer with a wide range of characters from the glam side of actors and painters to the more basic side of life to the cleaners and runners but it just goes to show no matter how much money you have or don&#8217;t have in your pocket one thing remains the same we all have our problems and a heart that just wants to love and be loved!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Oxygen;\">The main storyline follows Nella as she moves to Starbourne to begin work there after an unfortunate accident and some would say a touch of fate lead to her meeting the gorgeous Nick who is the owner of the luxury cottage rentals. We also have a strong storyline that follows Lizzie who is a well known actress who has hit burn out and needs time to get her head straight whilst also working on her book and so gradually more characters are then weaved into these threads to open up more stories along side so there is always someone new to meet or something new going on. Jill Mansell has such a skill when building her characters because they are all so well developed and I never find myself muddled between who is who.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Oxygen;\">With so many characters comes so many troubles and emotions but also a lot of new beginnings and romance too which is just the kind of story I want to read in January when we all reset and recharge and have an air of positivity to start a fresh. This is a great feel good read by Jill Mansell and a great book to start the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Du8MTu\"><b><span style=\"color: #a64d79; font-family: Spicy Rice; font-size: medium;\">Available to purchase here on Kindle or Hardback<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Paid associates link<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Nick is the most intriguing man Nella has met in a while.\u00a0He&#8217;s a 9 in the looks department (no one\u00a0gets a 10), he makes her laugh,\u00a0and\u00a0he keeps her company when she ends up in A&amp;E. 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