Bella’s living her dream life, running a beautiful, rural French B&B and has finally put her past behind her. But when her husband suddenly asks for a divorce, everything changes.

Forced to abandon everything she’d built before, she finds herself moving to the beautiful town of Versailles, where she takes a job working in a hotel, and moves into a chaotic house share.

At first, it doesn’t feel like a problem that she can’t seem to convince her young housemates she’s older than them – it’s quite nice to pretend she’s in her 20s again. But when it becomes clear her new boss has also hired her under false pretences, she starts to wonder if she’s gone from living the dream to living a lie.

Despite the chaos though, she starts to feel that spark return. Even more so when handsome American landlord Brad arrives on the scene. But with so many secrets – now and in her past – how will Bella’s new start end?

My Thoughts:

Bella is living happily in France with her husband but then her world comes tumbling down when he throws a bombshell her way. Forced to give up her life and the time she had spent making her dreams come true, she stumbles upon hotel work, and a house share. The only downside is that she has not told the other house mates how old she really is and they are all young and single and complete opposites to her. But Bella feels as though half her life has been a lie and wasted so why not embrace her new life. But for how long? I liked the fact that the book was set in France as this is a place I have been too so can totally see the setting that Gillian has described. The first half was easy to get into but I feel the second half was not as good. It just felt a bit too much and a bit too long. But I did enjoy the first half.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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