Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year, a review by Joanna

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Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

Joanna Nell

352 pages

Published on November 1st, 2023

Hachette Australia

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This is a delightful English contemporary fiction story about a recently retired GP who realises she doesn’t just want to spend the rest of her life reading the papers, gardening – and  enduring her boring husband. Taking off to Greece on a whim, she must decide what it is she really wants to do – and who she wants to do it with… Yes it’s an updated Shirley Valentine, but I thoroughly enjoyed it!

I hadn’t heard of this author before, my friend brought this to my book club and recommended it to me, but it turns out we have an awful lot in common – including our first name. Joanna Nell is a UK trained GP who moved down under (in her case to Australia). She is still working as a GP, but has also published a number of books, that I’m keen to read, because I loved the humour and wry doctorish observations. The descriptions of sunny Greece, and especially of the food, had me yearning to go on a sailing holiday, but there were also serious topics, covered sensitively.

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