Life in the Old Girls Yet

New beginnings in Willowbrook

Lesesucht am 08.01.2026
Bewertungsnummer: 2696112
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Vee is now 55 years old and returning to the village Willowbrook after leaving her latest boy friend and set to life in the house she and her sister inherited. She is in for a surprise that the house is in no shape to live in. Also that the town can remember her as teenager could be tricky starting all over again. Luckily she meets Rick who has not only a spare room which he rents her, no he is also a handyman without current job hence can help her to renovate the cottage. Her elderly neighbour Beryl is still the same she knew when she lived there with her family and thanks to her and her friends, the Saga Louts, Vee gets very fast new friends in town. Will some secrets long kept now be revealed? I liked reading this book. I thought this sounds like a fun story which will be an easy read. I did not expect that this book is covering so many topics, what secrets get revealed. I really enjoyed that we have so many different ages in this book and all of them interact so perfect. We have Vee and Rick which are in their fifties, the elderly ladies with men but as side characters there are also have younger ones and also a small girl. Vee is an interesting character. She wants to start all over again in a town she once lived in. Strangely she has a barrier about her time back in town, can´t remember many things. For me it was interesting that she is not aware of many things when she arrives and bit by bit she discovers what once happened during an eventful summer before her family left. Also the relationships with her family are interesting and what secrets get all revealed. The Saga Louts gang I liked so much. The idea of three elderly ladies who still have fun going together on holiday and having a good time, how so very different the three are but make such a good group is wonderfully worked out and described here. All three have different backgrounds with Beryl having lost her sun at a very young age and then later her husband due to health issues and on the other hand we have Anthea who was already married four times. Also the gentleman around this group and when all of them with Vee and Rick as driver go on a tour to France is nicely written and we have some funny scenes in it. Some parts were dragging a bit for me, which might have been caused as so many things were packed into this book. So all in all a book with more depths than I assumed based on the cover and info about the book which I liked to read.