Summer Island Published by HarperCollins Publishers by Natalie Normann
Series: Very Hygge Holiday #1
on September 17, 2020
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Women's Fiction, Chick-Lit
Pages: 336
Source: Netgalley
Format: ARC, eBook
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ISBN: 0008362688
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He never meant to stay.He certainly never meant to fall in love…
Summer Island off the coast of Norway was the place London chef Jack Greene should have been from. He’s an outsider in the community that should have been his family, and now he’s setting foot on the strange land he has inherited for the first time.
The welcome is a mix of distrust and strange gifts of food, especially from enigmatic Ninni Toft, his nearest neighbour, who has arrived for the season to get over a broken heart. Her wild spirit and irrepressible enthusiasm for the quirky locals are a heady brew for city-boy Jack, who is discovering the simple pleasures of island life – and what it means to belong. To a place. To a people. To one person in particular…
Home is where the heart is, but is Jack’s heart with the career he left behind in London, or on the wind-swept shores of Summer Island, with Ninni?
Oh geez this book was a surprise! Sometimes when I choose a book to read and I think it’s going to be one thing–it turns into another. That totally happened with Summer Island.
The thing is, I thought this would be a simple, quick, same ol’, same ol’ read. Nothing new. And while the author didn’t reinvent the wheel with this one–she did manage to keep me glued to the pages of my Kindle for the better part of two days.
An island off the coast of Norway, its quirky inhabitants, and an Englishman who discovers his roots there…
This story was incredibly entertaining and full of heart.
The picture of life on a Norwegian island makes me wish I could visit. And the people and their kindness and generosity is something I would love to experience.
This book featured all that and a sweet love story with some closed-door romance. The ending was so worth the wait! And I cannot wait to find myself back with this author’s amazing storytelling.
About Natalie Normann
Natalie Normann grew up in a shipping town on the west-coast of Norway and always wanted to be a writer. Actually, she wanted to smoke cigars and drink whiskey like Hemingway but settled for chocolate and the occasional glass of Baileys.
Her writing journey started with short stories in women’s magazines until her first book was published in 1995.
