Ah Isabelle Bloom, you’ve done it again and painted such an evocative picture of a stunning landscape and place to dream. IT’s the ideal place to take your boyfriend so no wonder this is the plot here. A place to fall in love and possibly engaged! Oh I was swept up with it all even though you knew something was going to go wrong.

Taggie has escaped from London and Lucy is happily there but both of them find answers to questions, some of which they hadn’t even asked. This is no sloppy romance though but a novel that starts slow but wallows wondrously in the atmosphere of the place, before picking up the plot and twisting it a few times like the roads at the side of the lake…

Isabelle also gives her characters just enough emotional heartache and passion for us to care about them. Can I just say – I love Elsie! – and the men, well, you just know there’s a nice image to be had there when you read!

The Place we met is a Bloom classic – evocative, dreamlike but with a dose of reality just large enough to make it ring true. A place I now need to meet for myself with book in hand to try some tasty morsel – I mean that salad and limoncello Isabelle sings the praises of!

Bellissimo!