‘One Perfect Summer‘ is written by Paige Toon. It tells the story of Alice who has been taken down to Dorset by her Mum, to have a holiday and time together before she leaves to go to university in Cambridge. First of all Alice wonders how she can possibly survive this, however when she meets Joe, who works at a local pub she quickly changes her mind.
Of course a relationship starts between the two, what else would you expect from a Paige Toon story?! Alice realises that Joe isn’t happy where he is and knowing that he’s soon planning to move to London, she suggests that he comes with her to Cambridge instead.
On one of her last days in Dorset, Joe disappears. When Alice gets back home to London, she searches for him and when she moves onto Cambridge, she does the same, but Joe is no-where to be seen. After a while she decides to stop moping after him and to get on with her life, taking up a job as a punter and making a great friend in Jessie. She meets a guy called Lukas and things start to get serious, however Joe is always at the back of her mind and when she hears news of him, she feels compelled to go and see him.
This was a great read, I loved that the first part of the story was set in Dorset. Having holidayed there a lot in my childhood, I knew exactly where Paige Toon was talking about. With mentions of Corfe Castle and Old Harry Rocks, it allowed me to see the story as it happened. I must also mention that there is a great sequel to this, ‘One Perfect Christmas’, which is another great read, yet disappointedly a much shorter story, you’re left wanting more!
OTHER REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY PAIGE TOON
Lucy in the Sky
Johnny Be Good
Baby Be Mine
Chasing Daisy
Pictures of Lily
The story is quite hard to follow at first although, I may have thought this having read it quite sporadically to start with, meaning that I tended to forget who was who and what their back story was. Once I got into the book though, I found it hard to put down. The second part of the book was definitely more interesting, as by then we know why everyone is where they are, or at least we know part of the story. From then on you’ll want to keep reading to find out what happens to this bunch of people. Will they find what they need or will the past catch up with them?
Jean runs a bookshop, but not any old bookshop, it’s one he calls a ‘literary apothecary’, he prescribes books for his customers to sooth their troubled souls. People come to visit him at his floating shop, a boat on the river Seine. Jean converted the boat himself and reflects one day that it is ‘a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people.’
Catherine at first thinks that Simon has gone for his morning run before work as per usual and thinks nothing of it when he’s not there, when she wakes up. However when she realises that he never made it into work that day, she knows that something is not right. Thoughts run around her head, was it something she did? Is Simon in trouble? How could he just up and leave her and their children?
So we left Meg in ‘Johnny Be Good’ hoping that the baby inside her would come out looking more like her boyfriend Christian, than the famous rockstar Johnny Jefferson.
The story starts when we are introduced to Meg Stiles, normal, average woman living in London, who has just accepted an offer to go and work in L.A as a P.A. She takes the offer, albeit feeling a bit nervous about a new life across the pond and goes to meet the man who she’s going to be looking after, rock star Johnny Jefferson.
The book tells the tale of Jonah, who loves to twirl feathers, enjoys his bubble baths and likes to eat Marmite on toast, if this was all you knew about him, you’d think he was a normal, innocent young boy, and yes whilst he is rather innocent, he’s also vulnerable and has no sense of danger. One minute he’ll be sitting quietly and the next he’ll be destroying the place he’s in, whether at home or out at a restaurant. These unpredictable moments cause exhaustion, confusion and rage between Jonah’s parents, Ben and Emma and it is decided that Ben should move out, taking Jonah with him.
Spending time away from Sam is difficult for Alex, however things start to change when Sam starts to play 
The book is about a guy called Adam Sharp, a guy in his fifties who knows an awful lot about music. The book contains different time periods in his life, the present where he is happily with wife Claire and the past where he was with a woman called Angelina. In his present Angelina gets back in contact with him and well, I’m not going to spoil the story for you!
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