Today it's a pleasure to take part in the Blogger Day and social media blast for The Wish List by Sophia Money-Coutts.
About the Author
Sophia Money-Coutts is a journalist and author who spent five years studying the British aristocracy while working as Features Director at Tatler. Prior to that she worked as a writer and an editor for the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail in London, and The National in Abu Dhabi.
She writes a column for the Sunday telegraph called Modern Manners and often appears on radio and television channels talking about important topics such as Prince Harry's wedding and the etiquette of the threesome.
The Wish List is her third novel following on from the success of her second novel What happens Now? is her second novel and her debut, The Plus One.
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About the book
Be careful what you wish for……because you just might get it!
Florence Fairfax isn’t lonely. She loves her job at the little bookshop in Chelsea and her cat, Marmalade, keeps her company at night. But everything changes when her stepsister, Mia, announces that she’s engaged to her boring golf-playing boyfriend. That’s when Florence meets Irish love coach, Gwendolyn.
When Gwendolyn makes Florence write a wish list describing her perfect man, Florence refuses to take it seriously. Finding someone who likes cats, doesn’t wear pointy shoes and can overlook her ‘counting habit’? Impossible! Until, later that week, a handsome blond man asks for help in the bookshop…
But is Rory the one, or is he simply too good to be true? Florence is about to find out that her criteria for finding Mr Right aren’t as important as she thought – and that perhaps her perfect man has been right there all along…
A wish list is one thing, but a wish list for the perfect man is quite another thing. It kind of sets the list creator up for failure when all of the boxes can't be ticked, and they usually can't.
Florence is kind of a modern day patchwork family Cinderella, but without the skivvy aspect and more banter than malice. Her step-mother and sisters are all really helpful when it comes to forcing their opinions, suggestions and lifestyle choices on her. Now they have decided it's time for her to find a man and to do so she needs to see an expensive life coach.
Can a wish list give the introverted bookworm with a life of decisions based on how many there are of certain things have a real chance at finding love?
I think the OCD aspect and counting rituals was an interesting idea for a character. The way Florence links everything to odd and even numbers. Life outcomes, situations and becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy predictor of sorts made her character fascinating. I did feel as if it was used for certain scenes and then disappeared completely in others, which could be perceived as an inconsistency, but equally also as a way of measuring her level of anxiety in certain scenarios.
The author gives readers an escapism read. Nothing too saturated with darkness, pain and dysfunction, but rather the lighter side of life even when it gets difficult. The perfect read for those who like to be entertained and experience something lighthearted.
Buy The Wish List at Amazon Uk or go to Goodreads for any other retailer. Publisher: HQ; pub date 6 Aug. 2020. Buy at Amazon com.
Read my review of What Happens Now and The Plus One by Sophia Money-Coutts.
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