One spark will light up both their lives
Alice is settling down. It might not be the adventurous life she once imagined, but more than anything she wants to make everyone happy - her steady boyfriend, her over-protective mother - even if it means a little part of her will always feel stifled.
Max is shaking things up. After a devastating injury, he is determined to prove himself. To find the man beyond the disability, to escape his smothering family and go on an adventure.
A trip to Sri Lanka is Alice's last hurrah - her chance to throw herself into the heat, chaos and colour of a place thousands of miles from home.
It's also the moment she meets Max.
Our Review
Omg Isabelle Broom has done it again, transported me to another country. This time our adventure took place in beautiful Sri Lanka and I could almost feel the red dust on me as I was taken on the trip of a lifetime with Alice and her two friends Steph and Maureen as they celebrate their 30th birthdays.
The descriptions of the amazing places they visited were filled with authenticity, so much so that I feel I have been to Sri Lanka myself.
Alice doesn't know it yet, but her whole life is about to change.
Max doesn't know it yet, but he's the one who's going to change it.
Title: One Thousand Stars and You
Author: Isabelle Broom
Published By: Penguin Michael Joseph
Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Our Review
Omg Isabelle Broom has done it again, transported me to another country. This time our adventure took place in beautiful Sri Lanka and I could almost feel the red dust on me as I was taken on the trip of a lifetime with Alice and her two friends Steph and Maureen as they celebrate their 30th birthdays.
The descriptions of the amazing places they visited were filled with authenticity, so much so that I feel I have been to Sri Lanka myself.
When the girls meet two handsome hunks called Max and Jamal they travel as a group and spur each other on when the going gets tough.
Some parts of their trip felt exhausting and Isabelle manages to capture the feelings so well that I felt out of breath at some points.
The sensitivity with which Max’s situation is described actually brought me to tears a few times it was written beautifully and was very evocative.
Chapter 48 reduced me to trembles.
Isabelle Broom is one of my all time favourite authors and I feel as though I am on a round the world trip with her with every book she writes. This one is a love story so different and so special, heartbreaking, touching and so very poignant.
At one point I wanted to put it in the freezer so that I didn’t have to end it but I had to finish it and boy what a heart racing climax it reached and it made me so happy.
My advice to everyone is to read every single one of Isabelle’s books and have the experience of an exotic holiday from your very own home.
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Sincerely
Book Angel x
About the Author
About the Author
Isabelle Broom was born in Cambridge nine days before the 1980s began and studied Media Arts in London before joining the ranks at Heat magazine, where she remains the Book Reviews Editor. Always happiest when she off on an adventure, Isabelle now travels all over the world seeking out settings for her novels, as well as making the annual pilgrimage to her true home - the Greek island of Zakynthos. Currently based in Suffolk, where she shares a cottage with her dog Max and approximately 467 spiders, Isabelle fits her writing around a busy freelance career and tries her best not to be crushed to oblivion under her ever-growing pile of to-be-read books.
If you like pictures of dogs, chatter about books and very bad jokes, you can follow her on Twitter or Instagram @Isabelle_Broom or find her on Facebook under Isabelle Broom Author. To find out more about her books, visit her website www.isabellebroom.com
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