Paperback published by Aria Fiction 8th December 2022
ISBN 9781804542231
It’s never too late to change the habits of a lifetime…
Evelyn Pringle isn’t the sort to make rash decisions. Or any decisions, really – she’s always left that sort of thing up to her husband. But he’s been found dead, wearing his best suit, with a diamond ring in his pocket that doesn’t fit her. When Evelyn finds a letter addressed to a woman on the Isle of Wight, she decides to deliver it. By hand.
So begins a very unusual holiday, and an adventure no one could have predicted – least of all Evelyn herself. With the help of some unexpected new friends, and a little effort on her part, Evelyn discovers that it’s never too late to have a second chance at life and forge friendships that are well-worth living for.
MY REVIEW
I can’t believe this excellent well written book The Second Chance Holiday Club is a debut book by Kate Galley. I love finding new authors and now Kate Galley has become one of my favourite new authors. I found this story unputdownable, as I instantly became trapped into the life about the main character Evelyn Pringle.
Evelyn is in the older generation age, who has been married to her husband Tony for many years, until she received dreadful news that her husband had be found dead in his car from a heart attack.
After 58 years of marriage, you would think Evelyn knew everything about her husband, but how wrong could she be?
Evelyn is in for a big shock, her husband’s wedding ring is returned to her, with another ring that doesn’t seem to fit Evelyn.
I must admit I did feel like I was snooping too with Mrs Pringle, looking in her dead husband’s study. Then the air kind of changed when Evelyn finds a lilac envelope with a woman’s name written on it.
We are taken on a quite humours Christmas coach trip to the Isle of Wight, but the question is why has Evelyn really gone on this coach trip with the letter her husband wrote to another woman?
The Second Chance Holiday Club is one of the best fictional stories I have read with so many different themes running through, heartwarming marriage, grief, heartache, friendship a little bit of mystery, and flair of humour. After enjoying The Second Chance Holiday Club I’m really looking forward to the 31st August 2023 when Kate Galley’s next book is being released The Golden Girls Road Trip.
About Kate Galley
Kate Galley writes UpLit and Bookclub fiction full of heart and humour. She lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and works as a mobile hairdresser in the surrounding Chiltern villages. Kate is the author of The Second Chance Holiday Club and The Golden Girls’ Road Trip.
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I love the premise! I can’t imagine something like that happening. Wow
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One of the best stories I’ve read
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