I listened to this and chose it because it was relatively short as I knew I wouldn’t have much time and didn’t want to forget the story before I could finish it. It is obviously a book written quite a while ago – as evidenced by answerphones and lack of smart phones and 24 hour availability.
The story pivots on Melanie who arrives to stay with her cousin for a period of time to look at her business as a favour to her uncle. She meets father and daughter duo Ben and Taylor as her cousin’s home is on their land.
Quite bizarrely father and daughter both proceed to try and ‘woo’ her. Melanie in her 30’s is presented with Ben, a widower in his 50’s and Taylor a lesbian in her 20’s. As this is a Georgia Beers book I think it is fair to say that the outcome is guaranteed to be in Taylor’s favour.
This seemed an odd trope to me – and sort of perpetuating the myth of bisexuality and not being able to choose which one she wanted. As Melanie had not had previous relationships with women she did some soul searching and sort of dated both of them at the same time to decide what she wanted.
I enjoyed it though – apart from anything else it involved running a bookshop.