by Susan Roberts
For sale: Greek cottage. One euro.
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| March 2026; Berkley; 979-8217190386 audio, ebook, print (400 pages); historical fiction |
This dual time novel takes place in Greece during the present time and during WWII. Both timelines are based on women finding happiness by starting over. The woman in each timeline is stronger and more resilient than they know, and both are looking for a way to survive bad situations and find happiness.
Skye is a teacher in London who finds herself in an abusive marriage. She wants to start over, and when she sees a lottery for several cottages on an island in Greece for 1 euro, she puts her name in. She's thrilled when she finds out that she won a cottage, but is pretty appalled when she sees the state of the cottage. These were cottages that hadn't been lived in since WWII and needed a lot of work to make them livable. Skye is thrilled to be hiding from her husband, and with the help of the local handyman, she is determined to make her house livable and lovely. She soon makes friends with the other people who have won the lottery, and for the first time in a long time, she is beginning to find happiness, but soon finds out that it's impossible to hide. While the renovations are going on, she finds a packet of letters hidden in the chimney that make her view life differently.
In the 1940s, Katarina fell in love with a man who soon left to be part of the resistance. When German troops take over the island, she is upset over the cruelty of the German soldiers and joins the local resistance movement despite the danger. She continues to long for the man she loves to return and has no idea if he is even alive. She is strong as she fights against the people who are trying to ruin her island and the people on it.
This is a debut novel by Izzy Broom. She did a fantastic job in her descriptions of the Greek island of Folegandros. Greece is on my short list of places that I want to visit, and this book made me think about making travel plans now. Based on how well written this book is and how much I enjoyed it, I can't wait to read whatever she writes next.
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Susan Roberts grew up in Michigan but loves the laid-back life at her home in the Piedmont area of North Carolina where she is three hours from the beach to the east and the mountains in the west. She reads almost anything but her favorite genres are Southern Fiction and Historical Fiction.
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