Colleagues at a bakery department, all women, are destined to be friends, are the main protagonists in A Summer Fling by Milly Johnson. They work alongside each other, in the bakery section in a superstore, rarely interacting. When they move their manager Malcolm to join the cheese department Christie replaces him. He spends the rest of his time trying to get her sacked.
She gathers five colleagues, with their own troubles, and creates a friendship none of them would have expected. Their weekly trip to their local pub resulting in a bond shared by all.
Anna’s fiancee left her for a younger rival. Vladimir, in search of someone to transform for his television show, finds her at the station.
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Grace has only stayed for the sake of her children. When he pushes away his son and daughter, who don’t conform to his ideals, she continues to see them.
Raychel hides a dark past, where her guilt about an undevoted mother makes her believe she doesn’t deserve to be a mum and that history only repeats itself.
Dawn is preparing for her wedding to Callum. A dysfunctional family, it is better than nothing. Her own parents’ dead she searches for a replacement in the wrong place. Until she meets a guitarist called Al. He is everything her boyfriend is not. With an important decision to make, does she choose her own happiness over commitment.
At first, the multiple points of view a little distracting, but by the end I hardly noticed when one character began and the other started. The author brilliantly planned each seamless transition. Each woman travels on their own personal journey-each unique, but linked in some way.
I would recommend this book because it had strong female protagonists beaten by the lives it dealt them. Although, I would have liked one of the women to be able to survive without a prince to save the day.
Writer Ravenclaw 