I’ve been a bit mean on the rating as the story itself is a very pleasant read, it is just a little bit too twee for my personal tastes.
It revolves around the two main characters of Madame Burova, a fortune teller, and Billie, a woman whose parents have now both died and whom she subsequently discovers were not her biological parents.
The story flits between the current day and the early 1970s in a south coast seaside town. The sections of the book set in the 1970s have some nice references to that period and the characters, of which there are quite a few, are clearly defined.
The story is quite predictable and it is a very easy and lightweight read. If you want something fairly feel good that doesn’t tax you too much, it is definitely worth a read. If you don’t like cliches or are prone to pick holes in a story, of which there are many (not to mention a ridiculous number of unbelievable coincidences), then avoid.
It revolves around the two main characters of Madame Burova, a fortune teller, and Billie, a woman whose parents have now both died and whom she subsequently discovers were not her biological parents.
The story flits between the current day and the early 1970s in a south coast seaside town. The sections of the book set in the 1970s have some nice references to that period and the characters, of which there are quite a few, are clearly defined.
The story is quite predictable and it is a very easy and lightweight read. If you want something fairly feel good that doesn’t tax you too much, it is definitely worth a read. If you don’t like cliches or are prone to pick holes in a story, of which there are many (not to mention a ridiculous number of unbelievable coincidences), then avoid.