Blog Tour
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THE HOUSE SWAP
Book: The House Swap
Publication Day: 19 April 2021
Island house off coast of Maine, with private beach, sea
views and the occasional farmyard animal, seeks super swanky Central London
penthouse overlooking Holland Park, complete with concierge service and spurned
ex-lovers…
When thirty-somethings Cassie and James find each other on
a home swap website, it feels meant to be. City hotshot James needs a bolthole
after a relationship goes sour and Cassie needs to leave the comfort of her
little island to research her new book.
Soon, James is living in Cassie’s cute but ramshackle beachside cottage, and
Cassie’s living in James’s luxurious London apartment. It’s the perfect
solution.
Except James didn’t imagine he’d be sharing his home with eleven chickens and
three alpacas, not to mention the unusually friendly neighbours, who seem to
find any excuse to drop by. And Cassie is less than impressed when James’s
ex-girlfriend turns up at his door, demanding to know where he’s gone.
The more Cassie and James talk, the more the tension between them mounts. But
as the insults fly so do the sparks, and when the time finally comes to swap
back, Cassie and James find they aren’t quite ready to give each other up.
But there’s more than just distance between them – and when Cassie makes a
surprising discovery, the pair are forced to confront their feelings and decide
what kind of life they really want.
An utterly heart-warming love story that will make you laugh and cry, fans
of The Flatshare, The Hating Game and movies like The
Holiday will fall head over heels for The House Swap.
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THE HOUSE SWAP by Jo Lovett is the story of James and Cassie
who live on opposite sides of the world. Circumstances force them to seek
accommodation far away from home. Serendipity sees them connecting via a house
swapping website, and thus begins a not-quite-but-close-to enemies to lovers relationship.
A third ‘character’ and one that I enjoyed reading about was
the diverse settings. We get to spend time in bustling, modern day London and a
barely inhabited coastal island.
I have to admit that I needed to recalibrate my expectations
about this book while reading it. It starts off amusingly enough, with a
clueless James realising at the very wrong and very public moment that his
current girlfriend is expecting a marriage proposal, then quickly moves to a heavy,
often intense, journey of two people trying to move beyond emotional hardships
they have been facing for many years.
I think Lovett did a commendable job in communicating the
thoughts and feelings of James and Cassie. By the end, I knew both characters
and their motivations much better. Admittedly, I never fully warmed up to
James, but they found each other and they are happy. If they’re happy, I am
happy.
I did enjoy Lovett’s overall writing style and would be
happy to read her other work.
Jo Lovett lives in London with her family.
She worked in Corporate Tax before taking a longer-than-expected career break to have more-than-expected children (five). She started writing romantic comedy when she realised that she was regularly begging her oldest son to let her do his English homework but she wasn't actually that interested in haunted houses or Macbeth.
Jo was runner-up in the Good Housekeeping/ Orion First Novel Competition 2018 and shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Award 2019.
Her first novel, 'The First Time We Met', was published by Bookouture in November 2020 and her second, 'The House Swap', comes out in April 2021.
When she can escape from her laundry mountain, she enjoys reading, tennis and wine.
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