Today we have a treat for you. To celebrate the release of The Lemon Grove by Helen Walsh, we’re giving a beach bag full of goodies away, along with copies of the book!
A highly charged, sultry, beautifully written and compulsive one-sit read, The Lemon Grove is an intense novel about obsession and sex—the perfect summer book.
Jenn and Greg have been married for fourteen years, and, as the book opens, they are enjoying the last week of their annual summer holiday in Deia, a village in Majorca off the coast of southern Spain. Their days are languorous, the time passing by in a haze of rioja-soaked lunches, hours at the beach, and lazy afternoon sex in their beautiful villa. It is the perfect summer idyll . . . until Greg’s teenage daughter (Jenn’s stepdaughter), Emma, arrives with her new boyfriend, Nathan, in tow.
What follows, over the course of seven days, is a brilliantly paced fever dream of attraction between Jenn and the reckless yet mesmerizing Nathan. It is an intense pas de deux of push and pull, risk and consequence . . . and moral rectitude, as it gets harder and harder for Jenn to stifle her compulsion.
This is a very smart novel about many things: the loss of youth, female sexuality, the lure of May/December temptation, the vicissitudes of marriage and the politics of other people’s children. It is simultaneously sexy and substantive, and Helen Walsh’s masterful, even-handed tone can’t help but force the reader to wonder: “What would I have done?”
Beautifully written with the tension of a rubber band just about to snap, The Lemon Grove is a book that will have people talking all summer long.
One grand prize winner will receive a Beach Bag filled with goodies, including a copy of the book.
The beach bag includes: a towel, sunscreen, sunglasses, Lemon body lotion, a beach hat, and a copy of THE LEMON GROVE.
We’re also giving away two additional copies of the book! Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter!
This story looks different from what I usually read but I am wondering what happens to all the characters.
Interesting blurb
This looks like a fun prize and I just LOVE the book cover. It seems to be an interesting read.
Sounds like a good read.