New Discoveries

The Spa Break by Caroline James is a really fun contemporary read that entertained me from the start.

The reader joins four friends in their sixties on a weekend spa break to celebrate a seventieth birthday.

Not shackled by the confines of daily life, it is a journey of discovery for each one of the four.

It is a time of new opportunities. Life is for living, and the four ladies certainly expand their horizons as they try out new activities.

Caroline James writes with much lightheartedness and wit. Her observations, as well as her dialogue, create the comedy.

I thoroughly enjoyed The Spa Break. It brightened an otherwise gloomy and sad January day for me (my cat had been put to sleep as she was ill). All the characters were well drawn and easy to picture.

Banish those winter blues and pick up a copy of The Spa Break today.

JULIA WILSON