One of the best ways of finding your next five star read is to look at the recommendations from the Author of your last five star read. Authors that write what you know and love are often fans of exactly what you know and love too. So a huge thanks to Cressida McLaughlin for sharing this with the book club at our Zoom event earlier in the Summer – I queued it up for exactly what it says on the cover, The Last Days of Summer, and devoured it.
This is the ultimate contemporary/spicy romance blend and has just the right amount of heartbreak, love, spice, humour and reality. The characters were fabulous, and were equal parts the main event of the story, without taking over completely – the narrative was woven around them expertly. Sarra Manning just became one of my auto-buy Authors, although how she’ll ever top that walk-in pantry scene I don’t know…
About the Book
Sometimes all it takes is one long summer weekend for the person you thought you hated to become something more…
After a disastrous first meeting, Cassie and Marc become arch nemeses. He might have great cheekbones and a sexy French accent but he’s a terrible person who did a terrible thing. Too bad that Cassie’s best friends Lucy and Russell think he’s wonderful.
But years later, when an unexpected tragedy strikes their friendship group, Cassie and Marc team up to give Lucy and Russell the best weekend ever so they can make new memories with all of their favourite people. Which means convincing everyone that Cassie and Marc are head over heels in love.
After hating him for so long, it takes four bittersweet days for Cassie to wonder if she got Marc all wrong. Can they let go of their troubled past and together, face whatever the future is going to throw at them?
About The Author
Sarra Manning has been a voracious reader for over forty years and a prolific author and journalist for thirty.
Her novels, which have been translated into numerous languages, include Rescue Me and London, With Love. Sarra has also written a number of YA novels, and several lighthearted romantic comedies under a pseudonym.
She started her writing career on Melody Maker and Just Seventeen and has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph, ELLE, Grazia, Stylist, You Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar. She is currently the Literary Editor of Red Magazine.
Sarra lives in London surrounded by piles and piles of books.
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