When Lara is dumped by Lucien in the middle of a jazz club the first thing, she does is call her best friend Siobhan, only to find out that it is her oldest gal pal that is to become her replacement. Utterly heartbroken she returns home to drown her sorrows with a bottle of wine in the company of her cat Fluffy.
A few streets away, Theo loves his job as a jazz musician. Playing with his band all night and unwinding in the early hours at home with his cat Satchmo.
What they don’t know is that it’s the same cat.
When a pyjama-clad evening cat hunt causes the two to meet, they realise they are co-parenting and the fur begins to fly. But will it turn out that Lara and Theo have much more in common then a cat?
Having never read anything by Tennant before, but having seen a lot of praise for her books, I requested this book for something light and easy, and that is exactly what I got.
I enjoy the rom-com genre for its simplicity and predictability. I often read them in between heavier novels as light relief, and this book was no exception.
The characters were likeable, although it did take me a good while to warm to Lara. She came across as quite stand-offish and quick to react hot headedly in simple situations, but about halfway through she seemed to mellow out. Fluffy/Satchmo was amusing, he had all the usual arrogance of a cat, but Tennant wrote him in such a funny way he really became his own personality in the story.
If you’re after something easy-going, this book is a good choice.
* Thanks to Bookouture, via NetGalley, for this ARC *
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