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Nothing to Lose by Clare Lydon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is a lovely story. I like the fact, that both main characters are in their prime, as they say. As Life goes both have made mistakes and have been hurt. One by others, the other by herself.

Fate throws the two together and what could have been a disaster turns out a boon. Building in flood planes is a folly, that too many councils in the UK indulged in, but the same thing happened in Germany too. So when having cut too much money from the maintenance budget causes the badly maintained floodgates to fail, Scarlet's basement flat becomes a possible Death trap and she has to leave it within half an hour, her life seems about to be ruined.

But on an impulse, thrown off her normal course by the flood, she finds Joy in more ways than one. Firstly it is the name of the woman who takes her in now she’s homeless and not insured. Then to be with her becomes more and more of a joy, too.

It is a lovely pretty realistic story of how an event, that at first glance seems devastating, can have the exact opposite effect. The dialogues are witty, the character developments plausible, and the romance is on. I loved both characters from the start. People speak like real people do in this book and something like this plot could happen around the UK any day, yet the books leaves me feeling optimistic and with a smile on my face, well done Clare Lydon.



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