Someone Else's Home by Janet Pywell

Hi all. Just wanted to stop in quick and say happy November. The holiday season begins!

I just finished Someone Else's Home by Janet Pywell. This is book four in the Westbay Romance series. I have read several mysteries written by this author and liked them. So when she offered me the books in this series as ARC's I wanted to read them.

Someone Else's Home

About: "There’s a buzz of excitement when Carmen arrives in Westbay to open a soft furnishing interiors shop.

Once a top model, Carmen is married to Jack Bailey, a footballer, whose previous sporting career as a striker for England has turned him into a celebrity. Their two children are embarking on their own lives but there are secrets.

The family is in debt and about to lose their house.

Carmen is desperate to protect her family as much as herself, but she has to fight to win over local businesses in the town. As she comes to grips with conflicts and challenges in her life, she must consider her future and the changes that face them all.

Will they all be able to come together as a family when it counts? And, will Carmen find the home that they all so desperately crave?

A heart-warming, uplifting, feel-good novel about determination, ambition and honesty that comes together at Christmas..."

Someone Else's Home is a heartwarming story of a family, each at a crossroads in their life, trying to figure out where they fit in as an individual and as part of the family. Carmen was a high fashion model, who gave up her career to get married and have a family. Her children are grown and her husband is on his own journey. She makes a major life change. Jack, her husband, was a famous football (soccer) player. An injury ended his career. He is trying to find a new career. Elena is the daughter who is engaged to be married and has a glamorous job as a stewardess, traveling all over the world. But is this what she really wants? Luis is the their son who is soon to go away to college and is finding their way as a person who identifies as non binary. Luis struggles trying to fit in in the small village Carmen has chosen to start over in, public opinions of them and whether to go to college. This is a story of the family struggling with their decisions on their own and whether the family unit can survive the changes each is making.

Wonderful story. I couldn't put it down. I would say the books are not so much about "romance" as in romantic love. They are all more about individuals and families falling in love with Westbay and what it has to offer, then bringing families together. 

If you have read the other books in the Westbay Romance Series, you will find characters from those books here also.

Currently reading: A Traitor in Whitehall by Julia Kelly.