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The Island Villa

The Perfect Feel Good Summer Read

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Marisal. A villa on a sleepy Spanish island. A place that time had forgotten. A place of long ago summers, sun-kissed memories, and one terrible betrayal....

When Charlotte's husband James tragically dies, he leaves her an unexpected gift - her grandmother's beautiful villa, Marisal, on the Spanish island of Formentera.

As she begins to explore her new home, and heal her broken heart in the warm golden sunshine, Charlotte discovers that her grandmother Alba has been keeping secrets about her life on the island. Intrigued by her family's hidden history, Charlotte uncovers a devastating love affair that put many lives at risk and two sisters torn apart by loss.

Can the heart-breaking truth of the island's dark history finally be laid to rest? Or will the secrets of the past shake the new life and love that Charlotte is close to finding?

©2018 Lily Graham (P)2019 Tantor Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Heartfelt Tear-jerking
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Husbands parting gift turned a sad loss and dealing with grief into an adventure of discovery.

Great story past and present, enjoyable characters

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The lovely story, great characters and interesting plot make this book a great easy enjoyable read

lovely story

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Never commented on narration before! Can be exceptional / can be poor but this really is bad !!
Good story otherwise would only have listened to first chapter

Good story ruined by terrible narration

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The story was good, and the movement between 2 eras was smooth. However I very nearly didn't get further than the first chapter because of the very flat yet without being stylistically melancholy narration. I had it on in the car and couldn't turn it off. Then as the story got interesting the narration went from bad to even worse with the weird composite French/Welsh/Indian accent trying to be Catalan or Spanish. it was really annoying to listen to and detracted from the story.
The story was good and encouraged me to do a bit of googling to find out more about the 18th century part.

Good story but narration not of the same standard.

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Just loved the story, the characters, the flow, the narrator, I want to visit Formentera now…

The Story was captivating

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