The Ghosts Of The Past

The Dolce Vita Divas by Maddie Please is a most delightful contemporary novel that I read in just one sitting.

Maddie Please has created a wonderful, light-hearted read about second chances and really living life whatever your age.

All the characters are over sixty. They prove that age is no barrier to having fun. “I used to think life had passed me by and then I realized it hadn’t… Take every chance you get.” We need to grab life with both hands. We are never too old to re-write our story and to have a good ending – even an eighty-five-year-old knows how to live life. After all age is just a number.

The action is in the first person from the lead characters point of view. We get to know her intimately. Her life has been full, raising children but her first love has never left her heart. After her husband of many years left her (before the book opened), she realizes that now is the time to make some life changes.

A holiday in Capri with a friend, and in memory of another friend, offers new possibilities.

The landscape is in glorious technicolour compared with grey England. The reader can ‘feel’ the warmth and ‘see’ the vibrant colours.