Not my usual thing, but I managed to finally get around to watching the ITV comedy-drama The Durrells and wanted to explore Corfu in particular and thought this book was a very good way to start.
Sadly not. Penny is mourning the loss of her father and her recent break-up and decides a holiday to Corfu is the best thing, particularly since Gerald Durrell's books about his family's time on the island were her and her father's most beloved reads. This seemed the perfect little escapism I was looking for in relation to my latest television binge, but it turned out to be quite self-indulgent, badly disguised romance.
I had hoped for self-fulfilment, a woman discovering herself through travel, maybe even just a tiny bit of female empowerment but sadly it lacked all three and ended up being a woman looking for love. which is fine, if that's what you want. It wasn't what I was hoping to be reading, however.
It's an incredibly quick read, though it does drag throughout, and there are quite a few info-dumps that could have so easily made in to beautiful conversations or wistful daydreams in Corfu. There were quite a few mistakes as well, grammatical and plot, which detracted from what is quite a nice idealised portrayal of a woman trying to heal.
Sadly not. Penny is mourning the loss of her father and her recent break-up and decides a holiday to Corfu is the best thing, particularly since Gerald Durrell's books about his family's time on the island were her and her father's most beloved reads. This seemed the perfect little escapism I was looking for in relation to my latest television binge, but it turned out to be quite self-indulgent, badly disguised romance.
I had hoped for self-fulfilment, a woman discovering herself through travel, maybe even just a tiny bit of female empowerment but sadly it lacked all three and ended up being a woman looking for love. which is fine, if that's what you want. It wasn't what I was hoping to be reading, however.
It's an incredibly quick read, though it does drag throughout, and there are quite a few info-dumps that could have so easily made in to beautiful conversations or wistful daydreams in Corfu. There were quite a few mistakes as well, grammatical and plot, which detracted from what is quite a nice idealised portrayal of a woman trying to heal.