Happy Happy Happy

By: Nicola Masters

Narrated by: Rachael Beresford

Everything’s just perfect in Charlie’s life. Apart from all the things that are wrong.

It’s been more than a decade since Charlie Trewin left her sleepy Cornish fishing village for the dazzling lights of London, vowing never to return. But when shocking news of her father’s death forces her back to Carncarrow, she’s confronted with everything she thought she’d left behind: the tragic loss of her mother, her father’s obsessive hoarding—and her own unresolved emotions about them both.

At first Carncarrow seems like the same stuck-in-the-past, dead-end village Charlie escaped years ago. Nothing like London, where she’s built a wonderful new life: solid job, loving fiancé, and endless, boundless happiness. But as she sorts through her father’s stockpiled mementoes, she begins to rediscover the place she once called home—and realises that her life in London may not be as happy, happy, happy as she keeps telling herself.

When her fiancé unexpectedly shows up in Carncarrow, her two complicated worlds collide. With the past and the present competing for her attention, can Charlie finally make her peace with her memories? And can she find a way to be truly happy on her own terms?

©2022 Nicola Masters (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

loved it

I really enjoyed reading this author.  I look forward to reading more books by this author in the near future.

Even the HEA wasn’t satisfying

Sometimes being in the mind of the first person narrator is illuminating; sometimes it’s just annoying. I get that Charlie was traumatized by her mother’s death, but who spends 11 years basically alone and then 2 years with a man she doesn’t like just to validate herself for leaving home. I sped up the narration by .2. It helped.

Maddeningly boring

Not only was this book extremely boring, but it was also narrated way too slowly and without much expression. The protagonist was so annoyingly spineless! I mean, how long does it take someone to stand up for herself! Ugh!