Remember Me at Willoughby Close

Kate Hewitt

Jan 2021 · Return to Willoughby Close Book 4 · Tule Publishing

About this ebook

Welcome back to Willoughby Close, with four new residents and happy endings to deliver…

 

Laura Neale is determined to make a fresh start. A year after her husband’s death, she’s still left with too many questions and struggles with feelings of guilt, anger and grief. Hoping to rebuild her family’s life, she moves to Wychwood-on-Lea with her children, Sam and Maggie, all of them struggling in different ways to fit in and find happiness.

The warm community of women in Willoughby Close welcomes Laura with open arms, and, although wary, she finds their friendship helps her to take those crucial and challenging first steps. But then a sudden, intense attraction to her son’s teacher smacks her in the face. James Hill is funny, charming, and incredibly gorgeous—but he’s ten years younger than her and completely unsuitable. Laura’s not ready to start dating again, never mind actually falling in love. But what if her heart has other ideas?

As revelations about everything she once held dear surface, Laura wonders if she’s reckless or maybe just brave enough to try for love a second time. And if she is, can James be as well?

Ratings and reviews

I love author Kate Hewitt's books because I get to take a trip to the UK without ever leaving the US. In this book, we are once again in Wychwood-on-Lea and if you have read any of the other books in this series you will know that this little hamlet of a town is indeed close to all of its citizens. It's like you move into one of the cottages and something special is bound to happen. If you like it or not. Widow Laura Neale moves to town with her children Sam and Maggie. Life after losing a parent/partner is always hard but throw in a new place and well it can be good or bad... it is definitely interesting and a good read that is for sure. I loved this book and recommend it and the other books in this series.

I gave up on the last book in the series because I couldn't engage with the characters and I found the vast range of issues suffered by all the characters in the books was becoming unrealistic and tiresome so it was with some trepidation that I bought this book. I needn't have worried, Kate Hewitt has returned to her old sparkling form with this novel. Laura Neale's husband Tim died 15 months ago in a car accident. She has moved to Willoughby Close to get away from the memories associated with their old house, to down-size to something cheaper, and to be closer to Tim's parents. Her son Sam is 11 years old and seems relatively unaffected as long as he can play Minecraft, her daughter Maggie is older and angry with everything, despite agreeing to the move she hates everything about Wychwood-on-Lea. When Laura gets asked to see the headmaster of the local school her mind immediately goes to the worst place, but it turns out that the insanely attractive headmaster James Hill just wants Sam to set up a Minecraft club after school. Laura and James are attracted to one-another but is it too soon? He is nine years younger than her, is that too much of a gap when she is over 40 and he wants children? What will the other mums at the school gate say? What will her children say? This was warm and cosy, although we see other residents of the Close past and present it doesn't feel like the cast of thousands that it has seemed in other books. Overall, this was a great finale to the two series of books and I look forward to seeing what is in store for the Close in its next incarnation.

Once again we are in Wychwood-on-Lea and this time we get the story of Laura Neale and James Hill like all of the other stories in this series It is the perfect romance set in a small village with all of the pettiness and drama that entails from that but also the support and caring that comes as well Laura is a recent widow and she moves herself and her daughter Maggie and Son Sam to a new town to try to rebuild there life Maggie is a teenager who is rebelling not wanting to move at all Sam is settling in well but that is mainly due to his teacher James Hill. When Laura and James meet there is an instant connection between them and they soon start dating but is it to soon and how will Laura's children handle it You will have to read to see