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How Much Wine Will Fix My Broken Heart? - Kristin Bailey


Genre: Romance | Romantic Comedy | Womens Fiction

Released: Expected 30th June 2021

Publisher: Bookouture

Content Warnings: Mentions of Death and Illness. 


Grace Callaghan knows a thing or two about getting her heart broken in the worst possible ways. And in the last three years since she lost Tom, she's learned a lot ...

" 1) Wine is the answer. Some serving size suggestions include: a glass the size of your head, an Olympic-sizedswimming pool. Best served chilled, and with a straw.

2) Friends with benefits is always an option. Be prepared for side effects such as the guy saying 'baby', crying out his ex's name and preferring to keep his socks on.

3) Going 'out out' helps banish the blues. It may involve breaking into replica ships from the fifteenth century, screaming 'Aye-aye Captain!' and accidentally falling off the plank.

4) Karaoke makes everything better. Best enjoyed singing Enrique Iglesias, followed by an extra-large serving of fries."

And while the new rules she's put on herself have managed to protect her from being hurt again, she's lonely. As she works on a memorial for Tom and relives their adventures both together and apart - she wonders if she really could be brave again and get ready for another epic story. 

"To Feel their loss means those people meant something to you. You loved them. They loved you."

The Callaghan sisters are back - again! As usual, I was caught up right away by that trademark Kristin Bailey charm and the familiar friends that my favourite sisters have become over the last few books. I was so excited to catch up with them and see how their lives had grown since I saw them last. 

I adored Grace as I did her sisters, she was vibrant, headstrong and so very real. Trying to balance her own losses and fears with being a single mum to two adorable adopted daughters, I think any woman who's questioning who on earth let them be an adult would automatically relate to her. As we learn more about her history with Tom, we learn the good and bad, the smiles and the tears that led to their love story, and their all too short Happy Ever After. 

A heartbreaking and heart wrenching adventure about discovery and acceptance, about the many ways you can lose the person you love - this could have been a dark and depressing tale but Kristin always finds a way to find the smallest spark of hope in the gloomiest circumstances and sets it alight. 

"Who isn't perfectly flawed? Whose life follows some straight and narrow path the whole way?"

How much wine will fix my broken heart? is a story about losing and finding love but not in the way you'd expect - with every emotion possible from despair to maniacal happiness and laughter, this kept me going until I ran out pages as usual.

I've loved the Callaghan sisters individually and as a beautifully mad family and I cannot wait to see what Lucy gets up to when it's her turn!

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Kristin Bailey, Bookouture and Netgalley for this ARC in return for an honest review.



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