The Prosecco Pact by Kiltie Jackson - #BookReview #Blogtour

 

Lydia Beaumont glanced in the mirror at the clock on the wall behind her as she snapped the last curler closed on her client's head. Four thirty. After more than twenty-five years of transposing the numbers in her head, she now did it as automatically as breathing.

'There you go, Edna. Fifteen minutes under the dryer and you'll be setting hearts racing at the community centre tea dance this evening.'

Edna gave a hearty chuckle and Lydia discretely flexed her fingers a couple of times while reaching for the floaty, chiffon scarf to place over the top of the rollers. She scrunched her toes at the same time, trying to ease the ache which had set in from being on her feet for most of the day...

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Three Women, Three Promises, One Pact!

Lydia Beaumont married the boy of her dreams but he has since become the man of her nightmares. She needs to find a new life.

Grace Mitchell has dedicated her life to her career, losing friends along the way to her ambition. She needs to get a life.

Debbie Stanford has been engaged for a year but is no closer to setting her wedding date. She just wants to become a wife.

On a cold, blustery January night, they each promise to change their lives and seal the deal over their glasses of Prosecco.

However, the best made pacts of mice and women have been known to go awry…

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This book covers a year in the life of three friends, Grace, Debbie and Lydia. Three very different women whose lives need to change, and they make a pact to make this happen in the coming year.

I very much enjoyed spending time with these three women and, they were each easy to identify with in one way or another. I was totally engrossed in their lives and could not read quickly enough to see how their lives were going to pan out. I was rooting for them all the way.

The book is well written and made for compelling and easy reading. Ms. Jackson understands her characters and their situations well and imbues life into them with excellence. Their individual voices are clear and I felt as though I was a fourth friend around the table at one of their pie and prosecco evenings.

The book deals with some difficult themes which the author treats with sensitivity. Above all, it is a book of hope and personal growth and was a joy to read.

It was an inspiring and feel good novel that I highly recommend. I do not know if the author is planning on writing a sequel to this book, but if she is I will definitely be at the head of the queue to get my hands on it.

ISBN: 978 1999866679

Publisher:  Neilsen

Formats:  e-book and paperback

No. of Pages:  305 (paperback)

About the Author:

Kiltie Jackson spent her childhood years growing up in Scotland. Most of these early years were spent in and around Glasgow although for a short period of time, she wreaked havoc at a boarding school in the Highlands.

By the age of seventeen, she had her own flat which she shared with a couple of cats for a few years while working as a waitress in a cocktail bar (she’s sure there’s a song in there somewhere!) and serving customers in a fashionable clothing outlet before moving down to London to chalk up a plethora of experiences which are now finding their way into her writing.

Once she’d wrung the last bit of fun out of the smokey capital, she moved up to the Midlands and now lives in Staffordshire with one grumpy husband and another six feisty felines. Her little home is known as Moggy Towers even though, despite having plenty of moggies, there are no towers! The cats kindly allow her and Mr Mogs to share their home as long as the mortgage continues to be paid.

Since the age of three, Kiltie has been an avid reader although it was many years later before she decided to put pen to paper – or fingers to keyboard – to begin giving life to the stories in her head.

Her debut novel was released in September 2017 and her fourth book, ‘A Timeless Lovestyle’ was a US Amazon bestseller in Time Travel Romance.

Kiltie loves to write fiery and feisty female characters and puts the blame for this firmly on the doorsteps of Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables and George Kirrin from The Famous Five.

When asked what her best memories are, Kiltie will tell you:

1. Queuing up overnight outside the Glasgow Apollo to buy her Live-Aid ticket.

2. Being at Live-Aid.

3. Winning an MTV competition to meet Bon Jovi in Sweden. (Although, if Mr Mogs is in earshot, the latter is changed to her wedding day.)

Her main motto in life used to be “Old enough to know better, young enough not to care!” but that has since been replaced with “Too many stories, not a fast enough typist!”

(e-book and all info courtesy of Zoe O'Farrell)

(all opinions are my own)

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