Two delightful weekend reads

Jill Mansell writes lovely, feel-good reads … and her latest, Should I Tell You, doesn’t disappoint.  It revolves around Amber, Lachlan and Raffaele, who met as teenagers in the seaside home of kind-hearted foster parents. Arriving in glorious Cornwall was the best thing that ever happened to them – and now, as adults, their bond is stronger than ever.

But Amber has a secret. She’s in love with Lachlan. She can’t confess her feelings because that would never work. Restless Lachlan dates a lot and definitely isn’t the settling-down type. Surely it’s better to keep him as a friend than to risk losing him for good?

Raffaele has his own dilemma. He had the dream girlfriend in Vee, until it all went horribly wrong . . . and he still can’t understand why. Is Vee hiding something from him?

Now their widowed foster dad Teddy thinks he’s found love again. Younger, charming and strikingly beautiful, is Olga as perfect as she seems? Or will she end up breaking Teddy’s heart?

Against a backdrop of sparkling seas and sunny skies, the unexpected is always just around the corner. Headline Review, available at Exclusive Books

Oh … another one which will have you reaching for the tissues. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover is Lily’s story. Not having had an easy life, she’s a hard worker and has come a long way from  the small town where she grew up. 

Now living in Boston, where she’s just opened her own business, she meets and feels all the right kind of sparks with  gorgeous neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid. He’s assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant, but also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt.

Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

And she can’t help but compare him to her ex and first love, Atlas Corrigan … her kindred spirit, her protector. And when Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened. Choices … hard ones. Simon and Schuster, available at Exclusive Books.