I’m pleased to say I have Ten Years by Pernille Hughes on the blog today. Tha ks to Rachel’s Random Resources and One More Chapter for the copy of the book.
Becca and Charlie have known each other since university.
Becca and Charlies have also hated each other since university.
Until now.
Until Ally’s bucket list. The death of their loved one should mean they can go their separate ways and not look back. But completing the list is something neither of them can walk away from.
And sometimes, those who bring out the worst in you, also bring out the very best…
Over the course of ten years, Becca and Charlie’s paths collide as they deal with grief, love and life after Ally.
Not since Emma and Dex in One Day and Will and Lou in Me Before You will you root for a couple as much.
Pernille Hughes is an author I haven’t come across before, so I looked forward to discovering her work. Ten Years is a book I have heard a lot about this last few months so was kind of expecting a lot.
More of a contemporary romance story than just romance. Ten Years deals with heavy issues so be prepared. I thought they were handled well and sensitively. Three people; Ally, her boyfriend Charlie and Becca. Becca and Charlie were enemies from the word go, and then Ally died.
The ten years from there has seen Becca and Charlie move closer to friends than enemies. Spending their time fulfilling Ally’s bucket list wishes together and scattering her ashes as they go.
Can these two become a couple? Or is it just a shared love for Ally that binds them together? Can they move from enemies to lovers?
Charlie and Becca made me root for them. A pair that have lost their anchor, the one who kept everyone together. Seeing their relationship slowly move in a direction that could only benefit them was lovely. Pernille Hughes brings all the emotions to the fore in this moving and beautiful read so skilfully.
I loved these characters, and loved getting to know Ally through their memories as the story unfolded too. Such a tragic loss I felt her loss tug at my heart strings too.
Ten Years is such a powerful and special story. Showing that maybe you can move on from grief and there can be new beginnings that grow from it all. A book that left me thinking long after I put it down, Pernille Hughes is an author I will look out for from now on.
Purchase Link https://www.linktr.ee/TenYears
Author Bio
Before she moved to writing full-time, Pernille (pronounced Pernilla) Hughes studied Film & Literature at university. After graduating she went into advertising and later on to market Natural History films before working in Children’s television, which meant living in actual Teletubbyland for a while! From 2011–2015, she was a regular contributor for the Sunday Times column ‘Confessions of a Tourist’. She has two novels published to date PROBABLY THE BEST KISS IN THE WORLD and PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (formerly published as Sweatpants At Tiffanie’s). Her next book TEN YEARS will be out in August 2022.
Pernille lives in Buckinghamshire and while the kids are at school she scoffs cake and writes stories in order to maintain a shred of sanity.
Find her on Instagram and Twitter at @Pernillehughes or on Facebook at her Pernille Hughes Author page.www.pernillehughes.com (There’s a free story to be had!!!)
Social Media Links
https://www.pernillehughes.com (Free short story available here)
Twitter https://twitter.com/pernillehughes
Instagram https://instagram.comPernillehughes
Facebook at her Pernille Hughes Author page.
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Thank you so much Sharon for this lovely lovely review! And thank you to for being on the tour xxx
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