Book Review: An Italian Island Summer by Sue Moorcroft

Please join me in welcoming Sue Moorcroft back to Novel Kicks. She’s here with the blog tour for An Italian Island Summer.

Will one summer in Sicily change her life for ever?

After her marriage falls apart, Ursula Quinn is offered the chance to spend the summer working at a hotel on a beautiful island off the coast of Sicily, Italy. Excited by a new adventure, she sets off at once.

At Residenza dei Tringali, Ursula receives a warm welcome from everyone except Alfio, son of the Tringali family. He gave up his life in Barcelona to help his mother Agata with the ailing business, and is frustrated with Ursula’s interference – and she in turn is less than impressed with his attitude. As they spend more time together, though, they begin to see each other in a different light.

But what with Ursula’s ex-husband on her tail, family secrets surfacing and an unexpected offer that makes Alfio question his whole life, there’s plenty to distract them from one another. Can she face her past and he his future, and together make the most of their Sicilian summer?

*****

I’ve been a fan of Sue Moorcroft’s for years now and was so pleased when this new book, ‘An Italian Island Summer’ landed in my lap.

As always, Sue doesn’t shy away from telling a romance with added grit. Ursula is coming out of a bad marriage and her family believes she’s a lot more ‘vulnerable’ than she believes she is, for reasons I’ll let you find out. In need of a change of scenery as well as of job, she plans on going off to Italy to learn about ceramic decoration.

Unbeknownst to her, her uncle connives to get her to go to Sicily instead which means she learns from the best in the business, though she finds herself unwittingly smack in the middle of a family mess.

And that’s all I’m going to tell you about the story, expect that we meet up with characters from one of Sue’s previous books, ‘Under the Italian Sun’, from 2021.

Sue is a masterful storyteller and with ‘An Italian Island Summer’, I felt myself literally transported across to Sicily.

Full of wonderfully drawn characters, this is a terrific addition to anyone’s library, it certainly is to mine.

My thanks to Avon and Netgalley for the reading copy.

About Sue Moorcroft –

Sue Moorcroft is a Sunday Times bestselling author, #1 on Kindle UK and Top 100 on Kindle US and Canada.

She writes two books a year for publishing giant HarperCollins and has won the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Novel of the Year, Readers’ Best Romantic Novel award and the Katie Fforde Bursary.

Her novels, short stories, serials, columns, writing ‘how to’ and courses appear around the world.

Say hello to Sue via her website, blog, Facebook, her Facebook author page, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Click here to sign up to her newsletter and here to find out more about her street team. 

An Italian Island Summer was released by Avon on 25th May 2023. Click here to buy on Amazon UK, Amazon US, Kobo, Apple Books and Waterstones.

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Mick Arnold

Mick reviews books and will also be chatting about his experience as a male author in the romantic genre. Mick is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association, New Writers Scheme. He lives in Northamptonshire and is the proud keeper of two cats, Gus and Elphaba. When he’s not trying to write books, Mick has a deep-seated love of reading that he’s brought from his teens to the current day with no signs of waning. He’s also mad on the music of the Beach Boys and enjoys the theatre and humouring his Manchester United supporting wife. Mick can be followed on Twitter: @mick859