The Honeysuckle Dream by Kate Frost
Published: 15th July 2019
Publisher: Lemon Tree Press
Pages: 268
Available in Paperback and on Kindle
Rating: 5/5
Blurb
Two men. Three decades. One decision.
Pregnant at nineteen from an affair with a married man,
Leila goes against her parents’ wishes. Alone in an unfamiliar city, a fresh
start is terrifying.
Leila struggles to navigate between being a single working
mum, new friendships, and her bad choices in men. The heartache of past
mistakes haunts her. Disillusioned, lonely, and with a fractured
mother-daughter relationship, she swaps the vices of city life for the peace of
the country. Yet new-found happiness is short-lived and old habits return.
Can Leila let go of her past and find true love?
Review
The Honeysuckle Dream is the story of Leila Keech who is the
mother of Sophie Keech. Sophie has featured in two of Kate Frost’s previous
novels The Butterfly Room and The Birdsong Promise. I’ve read neither of these
two novels and don’t feel I’ve lost anything as The Honeysuckle Dream works
well as its own story.
The story takes place between 1979 - 2012 as we dip in and
out of various points in Leila’s life. The story isn’t told chronologically, and
I think this works well as each little episode helps us to build more of a
picture of Leila as a character and shows how various incidents have shaped her
relationships over the years.
Leila’s a very headstrong character who knows her own mind.
She’s quick to make judgements and these don’t always have the best outcomes, especially
where daughter Sophie is concerned. Despite
not being successful in love Leila has carved a name for herself in the events
world and I think that’s something she should be proud of being a single mum
with only the support of her best friend.
Having being rejected by her parents and her lover when she
was pregnant at just nineteen, Leila’s spent most of her life in Bristol flitting
from one lover to the next and never being able to firmly put down roots and
find somewhere that is truly home for her and Sophie. She makes the monumental decision and leaving her
friends and old lovers behind Leila heads to Norfolk to start a new life, where
hopefully she can reconnect with Sophie and finally find herself.
This was a wonderful read where I couldn’t help but become
immersed in Leila’s life. Kate Frost has done a wonderful job of exploring
Leila’s character and showing us what motivates her. It was great to feel so
connected to a character, so I’m looking forward to reading more from this
author and meeting another wonderful character.
Thank you to the author and publishers for sending me a copy
to review honestly and to Rachel’s Random Resources for inviting me to be part
of this blog tour.
About the Author
Kate
Frost writes character-driven women’s fiction and romances, alongside Time Shifters, an award-winning time
travel adventure trilogy for 9-12 year olds. She has a MA in Creative Writing
from Bath Spa University where she’s also taught lifewriting to creative
writing undergraduates. She is the Director of Children’s and Teen events for
Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival, and she’s the co-founder of Storytale
Festival, the first city-wide children’s book festival in Bristol.
The Honeysuckle Dream is Kate’s ninth book and the
third (standalone) novel in her popular The
Butterfly Storm series. She lives in Bristol with her husband, son, and
Frodo, their cute Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/katefrostauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katefrostauthor/
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