The Lost Letters of Playfair Street
Michelle Montebello
Reviewed by Helen
I loved this story so very much, it was so hard to put down yet I read slowly to savour every word. Set in two time lines it is a story of love, and a game of clues that brings them closer together in the roaring twenties a time of excesses, parties and a time the world changed so much and then now as a secret love is uncovered and there are clues to follow to unravel the mystery. This is the story of Charlotte and Alex and then later Paige and Ryan, a must read, don’t miss this one.
It is 1929 and the night of her engagement party, Charlotte Greene is soon to marry banker Floyd Clark, Charlotte is a very quiet young woman who doesn’t have friends but she does have her books, when she meets Alex Young one of the up and coming engineers of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, there is an instant attraction, it is not long before Charlotte and Alex are playing a game where clues are left and they are sight -seeing all over the Sydney area, as their love grows things are getting harder with Charlotte engaged to Floyd and the economy changing very fast.
Paige Westwood has arrived in Sydney to help her best friend start up a new business, a country girl at heart Paige is looking forward to her new role in The Rocks Sydney, while setting up the house Xavier has bought in Playfair St Paige uncovers a few things stored in the attic, one of them being a chest filled with what appears to be love letters and clues that take the reader on a journey of Sydney. Paige contacts the previous owner Ryan Greene in England, this chest belongs to Ryan’s great aunt Charlotte Greene who mysteriously vanished in 1929.
Ryan is very interested in this discovery and finds himself on a plane to Sydney to check everything out for himself, when he arrives at the house in Playfair St Paige is stunned but is happy to welcome him in and then together they travel on a journey back in time to discover what happened to Charlotte and her lover? This is a journey filled with intrigue, lies, hope and the never failing love and another love is growing fast. There were many tears and smiles as I travelled back in time with Paige and Ryan to get to know Charlotte and Alex.
Alex and Charlotte have so much against them but love is strong, there is heartbreak and joy throughout this story, beautifully written, it pulled me in from page one, I felt a part of the story now and in the past, I loved Paige and Ryan as well and the strength they showed as it seemed so many times they would come to end of the mystery only to discover something more there are a lot of twists and turns as the truth is uncovered.
If you have never read a Michelle Montebello story then pick this one up I can assure you, you will be picking up her past books and loving them as well, she writes beautiful stories filled with emotion and love and intrigue, the research done comes through in the words, I was taken back to the 1920’s and The Rocks, it all came to life and following the clues was so much fun and I did know quite a few of them.
Thank you so much Michelle Montebello for my copy to read and review, I truly loved this one it is brilliant and I can’t highly recommend it enough.
5 stars
Expected publication: December 2nd 2020 by Amazon Digital Services
