The Wedding Cake Tree

This book was recommended to me by my mum who had likened it to P.S. I Love You. The story of Grace who 6 months after her mothers death is told that in order to inherit her childhood home she must travel on a mysterious 10 day journey reading letters from her mother in important locations in order to learn more about her mother's life.

Grace's companion on the journey is a Royal Marine Alisdair who is there to guide her to each location and assist her throughout. He is strong, capable and an all round good man but due to his postings with the marines he has his own troubles.

This book was a great read. The suspense of not knowing where the journey would take Grace was lovely and some of the locations and things she got to do made for brilliant reading. It was emotional and the relationship between Grace & her ‘soldier boy' was built beautifully and with wonderful craft.

The building of the story was good although I must confess that the whole episode of her mother's in Croatia was where it began to slip a little for me. It became a little bit too off the wall and that lost a little of the emotion for me at that point.

The end of the book also seemed to take a little bit of a detour and took a bit longer than I'd have liked to come to a conclusion. In truth the first 75% of the book was brilliant the last 25% lost it's momentum a little.

I saw this book was free on Amazon yesterday and to be honest that serves it a discredit as it is way way better than that tag credits it with being. It was an excellent read and a great story and if you did pick it up for free as you might you would be getting an immensely good book so don't let this put you off.

It's a tale of mother's and daughter's at heart and the legacy we leave behind us and I would very highly recommend this book to anyone.