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Sometimes you just need to get away...
'Warm and life-enhancing, I wanted to move to Spain with these wonderful characters' Katie Fforde
'A fabulous read celebrating the good things in life - fun, friends, family and food' Jill Mansell
From the bestselling author of Escape to the French Farmhouse comes a deliciously feel-good new story...
Eliza has a full house! When her three children grew up and moved out, she downsized to a smaller property... but now they're all back. Every room in the house is taken and Eliza finds herself sharing her bed with her eldest daughter and her daughter's pug. Combined with the online course she's trying to finish, plus her job to fit in, there just isn't the peace and quiet that Eliza needs.
So when an ad pops up on her laptop saying 'house-sitters wanted', Eliza can't resist the chance to escape. She ends up moving to a rural finca in southern Spain, looking after the owner's Iberico pigs, learning about secret gastronomic societies... and finding a new zest for life and love along the way.
Readers have fallen in love with Retreat to the Spanish Sun
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Perfect for a summer holiday read'
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'You'll be craving tapas, Flamenco and the southern Spanish sun after reading this 5-star book'
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A lovely read from Jo Thomas, her books never fail to make me happy'
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A lovely, warm and sunny read'
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Fabulous location, delicious descriptions of food & drink & wonderful characters, an all round feel-good book'
If you love Jo's books, her next Christmas novel, Keeping a Christmas Promise, is available to pre-order now
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTransworld Digital
- Publication date1 Jun. 2022
- File size4841 KB
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Escape to the French Farmhouse | Chasing the Italian Dream | Finding Love at the Christmas Market | Celebrations at the Chateau | Retreat to the Spanish Sun | Keeping a Christmas Promise | |
In Provence, an old recipe book holds the promise of a new beginning | In southern Italy, a family-run pizzeria offers the chance of a life-changing adventure | In the snow-covered Christmas markets, a magical love story is about to unfold | An enchanting chateau and a handsome town mayor is the ultimate recipe for romance... | An escape to a sun-soaked Spanish village inspires a new-found passion for life and love | A Christmas to remember for a friend they'll never forget | |
An escapist read | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Feel-good sunshine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Festive magic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Delicious recipes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Review
Warm and life-enhancing, I wanted to move to Spain with these wonderful characters ― Katie Fforde
A sun-drenched treat... A book that is full of zest, warmth and sunshine, like a jugful of the best sangria. I loved it! ― Milly Johnson
No summer reading list would be complete without the latest from the fabulous Jo Thomas ― My Weekly --This text refers to the paperback edition.
About the Author
Jo Thomas worked for many years as a reporter and producer, including time at Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Radio 2's The Steve Wright Show.
Jo's debut novel, The Oyster Catcher, was a runaway bestseller and won both the RNA Joan Hessayon Award and the Festival of Romance Best eBook Award. Her recent book Escape to the French Farmhouse was a #1 bestselling eBook and in every one of her novels Jo loves to explore new countries and discover the food produced there, both of which she thoroughly enjoys researching. Jo lives in Pembrokeshire with her husband and three children, where cooking and gathering around the kitchen table are a hugely important and fun part of their family life.
Product details
- ASIN : B09CKGPMHD
- Publisher : Transworld Digital (1 Jun. 2022)
- Language : English
- File size : 4841 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 347 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,936 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 91 in Women's Humorous Fiction
- 94 in General Humourous Fiction
- 96 in Holiday Fiction (Kindle Store)
- Customer reviews:
About the author

Before becoming a radio producer Jo Thomas started working life in an ice cream van, then as a waitress in the South of France before returning to the UK and selling dancing flowers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Hamelys Toy Store in London. After Uni she worked for many years as a reporter and producer, including time at Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Radio 2's The Steve Wright Show.
Jo’s debut novel, The Oyster Catcher, was a runaway bestseller and won both the RNA Joan Hessayon Award and the Festival of Romance Best eBook Award. Her recent book Escape to the French Farmhouse was a #1 bestselling eBook and in every one of her novels Jo loves to explore new countries and discover the food produced there, both of which she thoroughly enjoys researching. Jo lives in Pembrokeshire with her husband and three children, where cooking and gathering around the kitchen table are a hugely important and fun part of their family life.
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Eliza thought she was in for a life of peace and quiet when she downsized to her small flat after her children and husband had all flown the nest. Yet one by one the children are returning. Eliza decides she needs to find her own space again and takes a job house sitting. Not just any old house sitting though, Eliza takes herself off to the Spanish sun and takes up residence in a Spanish farmhouse. Complete with prized pigs.
This book is full of the usual problems for our main character to solve, but along the way she discovers friendship, food and love. Full of the usual Jo Thomas magic, evoking feelings of skin warmed under a Spanish sun, dry, dusty heat, wonderful scents and flavours of food you could almost taste and the sounds of insects gently making their own music in the distance. I devoured this book in 2 days and must now return to my usual wait for the next trip around the globe with Jo Thomas. Wonderful read.
Well done Jo for a great story. I’ll shall be reading more of your books from now on.
Not a masterpiece, but it was an enjoyable escape from reality.