Sue Moorcroft – An Italian Island Summer

I’m over the moon to be hosting a stop on the blog tour for An Italian Island Summer by Sue Moorcroft. Thanks, both Rachel’s Random Resources and Sue Moorcroft, for the book in exchange for my honest review.

Will one summer in Sicily change her life for ever?

After her marriage falls apart, Ursula Quinn is offered the chance to spend the summer working at a hotel on a beautiful island off the coast of Sicily, Italy. Excited by a new adventure, she sets off at once.

At Residenza dei Tringali, Ursula receives a warm welcome from everyone except Alfio, son of the Tringali family. He gave up his life in Barcelona to help his mother Agata with the ailing business, and is frustrated with Ursula’s interference – and she in turn is less than impressed with his attitude. As they spend more time together, though, they begin to see each other in a different light.

But what with Ursula’s ex-husband on her tail, family secrets surfacing and an unexpected offer that makes Alfio question his whole life, there’s plenty to distract them from one another. 

Can she face her past and he his future, and together make the most of their Sicilian summer?

When I read a Sue Moorcroft book, I never fail to be transported to the setting of the book I’m reading. An Italian Island Summer did exactly that.

I was in Sicily with Ursula, after her marriage falls apart, her job in a tattoo shop has been lost after her boss decides to shut up shop and the final straw is the lease on her flat is due to end. She makes the brave decision to go to Sicily and work in a boutique hotel every morning in exchange for her bed and board. During the afternoons, she spends her time learning how to paint ceramics. She is happy with the arrangement and gets on well with the owners of the hotel, too. Alfio is the owners son who has given up so much to return and help his mother with the hotel. When he discovers Ursula is doing everything, he isn’t overly pleased. Ursula isn’t keen on Alfio’s attitude either, but as the story develops, we see something change, and romance begins to spark.

Sue Moorcroft certainly knows how to write a story with characters that have you invested from the start. Her settings are so detailed and vivid that I can see them in my minds eye so easily. This book made me feel like I was on a summer holiday, too. In fact, I could almost feel the sun beating down as I read.

The varying story threads that have been woven so intricately together create one heck of an atmospheric summer read. The characters all have a little piece of my heart. The drama and emotions that come with a slow burn romance are all there, in spades.

It is an entertaining, beautiful book that I read in one sitting as I always do with this author’s books. I was gutted to leave Sicily and all the characters that had populated my imagination from the minute I began to read! I am looking forward to Sue Moorcroft’s next book with such eagerness! A highly recommended summer read.

Purchase Links

Amazon UK EB https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Italian-Island-Summer-gorgeous-romance-ebook/dp/B0B986B7D1/

Amazon UK PB https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Italian-Island-Summer-gorgeous-romance/dp/0008525706/

Kobo UK EB https://www.kobo.com/za/en/ebook/an-italian-island-summer-1

Amazon US https://www.amazon.com/Italian-Island-Summer-gorgeous-romance-ebook/dp/B0B986B7D1 

Author Bio

Sue Moorcroft is a Sunday Times bestselling author, #1 on Kindle UK and Top 100 on Kindle US and Canada. She writes two books a year for publishing giant HarperCollins and has won the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Novel of the Year, Readers’ Best Romantic Novel award and the Katie Fforde Bursary.

Her novels, short stories, serials, columns, writing ‘how to’ and courses appear around the world.

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