Review: A great entertaining read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2013
When Bill Green puts a notice in a post office window in Oxford, he hopes for a group of intellectually stimulating companions with whom to share long summer evenings playing Aunt Sally, a quaint, traditional English pub game. Instead he gets a zany assortment of characters, not one of whom lives up to his preconceptions. With many characters thrown into the mix, the ensuing interactions and relationships become more and more entangled as the players progress through the season. From May Morning celebrations in Oxford to riotous Aunt Sally matches at idyllic Cotswold village pubs - with fun, drama, sex, romance and chaos along the way - by the end of the summer their lives will have been changed forever.(Author description)This is a well written, well researched piece of enjoyable fiction that stays in the mind well after the reader has finished the book. Flick Merauld draws her characters with words, as finely as they are drawn on the front cover. Each is very different and each endears you to them in their own different ways - the ever moody teenagers, the lonely widow, the businesswoman who isn't really looking for love and, of course, Dante, so well named, so charming, so needy and yet so flawed. This is a book the author should be proud to have written and it is a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining read. I can't wait to load the sequel onto my Kindle.