A review by always_need_more_books
The Scent of You by Maggie Alderson
4.0
Polly is a married perfume blogger and yoga teacher with two grown up children away at University. The book starts just after her husband David has announced he needs some time away from the family and has left on a research trip with the University, leaving no way of contacting him. She is understandably lost and confused but soon starts to make a life for herself. She bonds with the girls who do her yoga class, while visiting her glamorous mother in her retirement village she meets at old flame from University Edward and as her work as a perfume blogger, she meets a talented and mysterious perfumer, Guy.
Eventually she finds out the reason for her husband's disappearance and strange behaviour but having adapted to life without him, she has to decide what she is going to do. As the tagline says, "Are you still married if you haven't seen your husband for months?"
I have to admit, I'd already decided I'd find this one a bit of a chore. I haven't read chick lit for quite a while and it is pretty long (500 pages). But I'm pleased to be proven wrong - I flew through this in just a couple of days. I liked that it was about a woman of a similar age to me (40s) with a family and that as well as telling the story we were treated to her blog posts about perfume and the scents that are connected to certain people or occasions. There is romance and glamour (lots of posh perfume events) and it was very readable. I hadn't come across Maggie Alderson before and I'll be keeping an eye out for some of her earlier novels.
Thank you HarperCollins for sending me a copy of this to read.
Eventually she finds out the reason for her husband's disappearance and strange behaviour but having adapted to life without him, she has to decide what she is going to do. As the tagline says, "Are you still married if you haven't seen your husband for months?"
I have to admit, I'd already decided I'd find this one a bit of a chore. I haven't read chick lit for quite a while and it is pretty long (500 pages). But I'm pleased to be proven wrong - I flew through this in just a couple of days. I liked that it was about a woman of a similar age to me (40s) with a family and that as well as telling the story we were treated to her blog posts about perfume and the scents that are connected to certain people or occasions. There is romance and glamour (lots of posh perfume events) and it was very readable. I hadn't come across Maggie Alderson before and I'll be keeping an eye out for some of her earlier novels.
Thank you HarperCollins for sending me a copy of this to read.