The Lemon Grove
The Paper Palace meets Notes on a Scandal in this bestselling summer sizzler
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3.4 • 187 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
⛱ THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER ⛱
'Extraordinary. Electrifyingly good' Lisa Jewell
'Should be at the top of your summer reading list' Stylist
'Taut and lyrical; steamy, tender and full of insight' Observer
Each summer, Jenn and her husband Greg return to Deia, on Mallorca's dramatic west coast. This year the arrival of Emma, Jenn's stepdaughter, and her new boyfriend Nathan threatens to upset their equilibrium. Beautiful and reckless, Nathan stirs something unexpected in Jenn. As she is increasingly seduced by Nathan's youth and the promise of passion, the line between desire and obsession begins to blur. What follows is a highly-charged liaison that puts lives and relationships in jeopardy. For Jenn, after this summer, nothing can ever be the same.
💛 More praise for The Lemon Grove 💛
'Sensuous and sexy, with a nail-biting sense of trepidation... Unputdownable' Marie Claire
'A gripping, sexy summer read' Jenny Colgan
'Sultry, sexy, intense' Cosmopolitan
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
From the start, English married couple Jenn and Greg expect their annual summer holiday to Majorca to be different this year, with their 15-year-old daughter, Emma, joining them along with her new boyfriend, 17-year-old Nathan. They don't yet know, though, just how different things will be. Jenn, as the reader soon learns, is actually Emma's stepmother, but she is also the only mother Emma has ever known. The close relationship between the two, however, is not enough to prevent the unexpected attraction Jenn feels for Nathan, which, apparently, is mutual. This novel from Walsh (Once Upon a Time in England) is driven by her awareness of the connection between lust and romantic love, natural beauty and artifice, and passion and regret. Equally compelling is the honesty with which Jenn confronts her own aging and the knotty emotions that this awareness triggers. Though Jenn's preoccupation with Nathan is necessarily myopic, it's unfortunate that the book doesn't provide much sense of her before this reckless May-December romance. While some brief sketches of the family's history are provided, the picture never becomes clear enough to fully illuminate Jenn's compulsions.
Customer Reviews
The Lemon Grove
I really enjoyed it, much sexier than 50 shades of grey
Seductive
Loved this book, the story, the ending. Recommended to so many friends for a summer read.
Dull
A dull and pointless book.