Review: Something Old by Rebecca Connolly

 

About:

From this day forward...

Thomas Granger has been married to his wife Lily for five years. The marriage has been proper, but without much affection, and the fault for that lays squarely on his own shoulders. He married her for her fortune and has hidden his true feelings until he felt redeemed enough to truly love her. Now his fortunes have been salvaged, so he aims to take the next major step in his life: wooing his wife.

Lily has been living with a broken heart from the day she married Thomas. What hope she had for a marriage of love has long faded, and she sees no reason to dream otherwise. When Thomas asks that she come with him to Cornwall to try a new adventure together, she takes the chance on one last hope in finding love in her marriage. Wrapped in the beauties and magic that only Cornwall can provide, she finds new life breathed into her, and into her feelings for her husband.

When their walls come down, when their pretense is gone, will they find the love each of them has sought? Or will the life they have known be all that remains?

My Thoughts: 

I do love a marriage of convenience story, or one in which parents arrange it. This one is a little bit different. We have a couple who are still basically strangers after five years of marriage. Both are polite, but they never have gotten to know one another. As we get deeper into the story, they both have their whys and they both want to change things. They just have to do something.

Going to magical Cornwall to spend some time together certainly sets the mood and we get to see them fall in love again. Yes, they love each other they just need to admit it to one another. And when life begins to become a little rougher, is their love real or when they must go back home do they fall in the same old ruts?

This story really showed how any marriage could lose its sense of purpose. How other things of life can crowd out the marriage itself. I appreciated the importance the author put on how this couple needed to work on their marriage- nurture it and help it to grow. It is almost a living and breathing thing between them.

Throw in the countryside of Cornwall and I can hardly wait for the next in this series.

I was provided a copy of this novel from the author. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.