Looking Forward - Marcia Willett

Title: Looking Forward Author: Marcia Willett Genre: Fiction Rating: 8/10 # pages: 312 Date read: March 2008

Summary: Kenya 1957, Felicia, Sam and Susanna's parents and older brother are killed and the three kids are sent to their grandmother Frederica "Freddy" Chadwick in Devon.

Freddy has experienced a lot of sadness and pain in her life, and she would be helpless without her two devoted friends, Ellen and Fox, who also help and support her in this difficult time. Freddy's brother-in-law, Theo, is also ready to help, while her three grandchildren try to find a way out of the grief and forward in life.

"Looking Forward" is the first book in the saga of the unforgettable Chadwick-family.

Review: Marcia Willett has been compared to Rosamunde Pilcher, and with good reason. This first book in the Chadwick saga reads a lot like what I've come to expect from RP's books. And that's a good thing :) It was rather slow-moving, but not in a way that made it boring, but just to emphasise the atmosphere of the book as being relaxed and unpretentious. It's the first in a trilogy (I think) and I'm looking forward to reading the other two, as you really get to love the family.

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